Notable Nova Scotian folklorist and cultural historian Helen Creighton spent the majority of her lifetime recording the various Celtic musical and folk traditions of rural Nova Scotia during the mid-20th century, prior to this knowledge being wiped out by mass media assimilation with the rest of North America.

Although critics admired Brooks for taking a musical risk, the majority of the American public was either totally bewildered, or completely unreceptive to the idea of Garth Brooks as anything but a pop-country singer.

An exception to the decline of the musical film is Indian cinema, especially the Bollywood film industry based in Mumbai ( formerly Bombay ), where the majority of films have been and still are musicals.

It ’ s not an easy listen — the vast majority of her music never has been — but if you ’ re a fan and / or prepared for the challenge, this is as potent, heady and uncompromising as she has ever gotten, and with Smith ’ s storied history as a musical maverick, that ’ s saying plenty.

Since the majority of that music is written in D major, G major, or one of the corresponding musical modes, use of the D major or G major key signatures is a de facto standard.

Under Guéranger, the monks of Solesmes advocated singing Gregorian chant in a free musical metre giving the majority of sung notes the same durational length.

The move almost certainly aided Wolfgang's musical development ; the great majority of his most celebrated works were composed in Vienna.

The two Eid festivals which mark the end of fasting and the end of the Hajj allow the majority Muslim community to put on musical shows, distribute sweets and presents.

While North American players are typically two-handed, the Irish tradition finds the vast majority of bones players using only one hand, a distinction in method that has a strong impact on musical articulation.

The service provides national radio stations covering the majority of musical genres, as well as local radio stations covering local news, affairs and interests.

After the demise of Grand Royal Records in 2001, Sean signed with Capitol Records ( whose parent company EMI has released the vast majority of his father's musical output, group and solo ), yet no solo material surfaced until February 2006, when " Dead Meat " was released as the first single from his new album, Friendly Fire.

The majority of the early programming, from WOR and WGN, consisted of musical features and inexpensive dramatic serials.

The majority of games produced for the Commodore 64 made use of the SID chip, with sounds ranging from simply clicks and beeps to complex musical extravaganzas or even entire digital audio tracks.

The vast majority of bows are used with string instruments, although some bows are used with musical saws and other bowed idiophones.

The musical lyrics of the late 1950s depicted the easy life of the middle to upper-class Brazilians, though the majority of the population was in the working class.

Although the majority of his musical training was self-taught by ear, he learned some music theory from books in braille there.

Though the group's early recordings under their different monikers were doo-wop oriented, the majority of songs released under the Vandellas ' name produced a rougher, soulful sound with powerful musical backing from The Funk Brothers.

Except for the reuse of the theme music, the majority of musical cues come from episodes between Meglos and The Caves of Androzani, with a brief excerpt also taken from the Third Doctor serial The Sea Devils as well as an excerpt from the Seventh Doctor serial The Greatest Show in the Galaxy.

According to Steven Citron ( p. 181 ), " Ann Howes and the majority of critics now believe that with a rewritten libretto it could be turned into a successful musical.

As the band was asleep in their hotel, thieves drove off with their van and trailer containing all of their musical gear, band merchandise, and a majority of their personal possessions and clothes.

The majority of piano rolls play on three distinct musical scales.

The treatises begin from a premise of parallelism and then move on to suggest better ways of making the organum, involving boundary tones, and the vast majority of musical examples in the treatises in fact use intervals of 2nds, 3rds, 4ths, 5ths, and 6ths ( by inversion / octave doubling ), to create a more artistic result.

Although the majority of such games primarily emphasize rhythm as the major gameplay-determinative musical element, other elements of musical notation and development such as pitch and volume also serve as points of emphasis in a number of more recent games.

The company was responsible for the majority of the economic activity on the islands, though its farms were sold in 1991 to the Falkland Islands Government.

A majority of less active members return to church activity later in life.

The absence of a personal income tax in the principality has attracted to it a considerable number of wealthy " tax refugee " residents from European countries who derive the majority of their income from activity outside Monaco ; celebrities such as Formula One drivers attract most of the attention, but the vast majority of them are less well-known business people.

The majority of the pictures are of various people encountered on the trip, as informal portraits or showing them engaged in some interesting activity.

Within the wide, flat Central Plateau is the majority of Namibia ’ s population and economic activity.

Up to 30 % of all human proteins may be modified by kinase activity, and kinases are known to regulate the majority of cellular pathways, especially those involved in signal transduction.

Subsistence agriculture is the main economic activity in Togo ; the majority of the population depends on subsistence agriculture.

As such, the vast majority of the economical activity of Western Sahara happens in the framework of the economy of Morocco.

The majority of economic activity still takes place in Abidjan.

* Social validation, compliance in a social activity to fit in and be part of the majority

Although efforts to restore the town center continue, the majority of the city's economic activity has since relocated along Rockville Pike ( MD Route 355 / Wisconsin Avenue ).

The Valley is the main attraction in the park for the majority of visitors, and a bustling hub of activity during " tourist season ", with an array of visitor facilities clustered in the middle.

In the theta mode, the EEG is dominated by large regular waves with a frequency range of 6 – 9 Hz, and the main groups of hippocampal neurons ( pyramidal cells and granule cells ) show sparse population activity, which means that in any short time interval, the great majority of cells are silent, while the small remaining fraction fire at relatively high rates, up to 50 spikes in one second for the most active of them.

The majority of the clergy reacted to Felix's activity by nominating Dioscorus as Pope.

Nomadic hunting has been the main human activity on the parries for the majority of the archaeological record.

The majority of SNC meteorites are quite young compared to most other meteorites and seem to imply that volcanic activity was present on Mars only a few hundred million years ago.

Although the government had a comfortable majority and seemed set for a full term in office, a resumption of IRA activity in Northern Ireland and Britain caused internal strains ( see Border Campaign ).

Hummingbirds do not spend all day flying, as the energy cost would be prohibitive ; the majority of their activity consists simply of sitting or perching.

The majority of the physical postures focus on navel activity, activity of the spine, and selective pressurization of body points and meridians.

Izhevsk is the most important economic center of the Udmurt Republic, with the majority of financial and industrial activity concentrated in the city.

Participants of all ages are represented within the drum and bugle corps activity, but the majority are between the ages of 13 and 22.

The majority of commercial activity occurs along the main thoroughfare, US Highway 190.