Somewhere in the city a big clock sounded twelve solemn notes -- midnight.

According to William Burt, in his notes to Dartmoor, a Descriptive Poem by N. T. Carrington ( 1826 ), the original tomb consisted of a pedestal of three steps, the lowest of which was built of four stones each six feet long and twelve inches square.

These have all twelve chromatic notes laid out on the same row.

Keyboards typically contain keys for playing the twelve notes of the Western musical scale, with a combination of larger, longer keys and smaller, shorter keys that repeats at the interval of an octave.

At Athens " in Plato's time ," notes Kenneth Dorter " there was a discrepancy in the list of the twelve chief gods, as to whether Hestia or Dionysus was included with the other eleven.

Because seven of the twelve notes of the chromatic equal-tempered scale are naturals, ( the " white notes " A, B, C, D, E, F and G on a piano keyboard ), this system can significantly reduce the number of naturals required in a notated passage.

* medium term ( notes ): maturities between six to twelve years ;

In the 1920s, Schoenberg developed the twelve-tone technique, a widely influential compositional method of manipulating an ordered series of all twelve notes in the chromatic scale.

" Well tempered " means that the twelve notes per octave of the standard keyboard are tuned in such a way that it is possible to play music in most major or minor keys and it will not sound perceptibly out of tune.

Some instrument-makers sought to remedy the problem by introducing more than twelve notes per octave, producing enharmonic keyboards which could provide, for example, a D and an E with different pitches so that the thirds B – D and E – G could both be euphonious.

Chinese music is pentatonic-diatonic, having a scale of twelve notes to an octave ( 5 + 7

In notes dating from 1525 to 1543 he identifies twelve paintings and one drawing as by Giorgione, of which five of the paintings are identified virtually unanimously with surviving works by art historians: The Tempest, The Three Philosophers, Sleeping Venus, Boy with an Arrow, and Shepherd with a Flute ( not all accept the last as by Giorgione however ).

' pure ') or flat ( komal, ' soft ') but never sharp, and the fourth note can be natural or sharp ( tivra ) but never flat, making up the twelve notes in the Western equal tempered chromatic scale ( Western enharmonic pitch equivalences like, for example, A and B do not apply ; e. g. Re tivra may, to a Western musician appear enharmonic to Ga shuddha in that system, but in practice is not.

He edited the last twelve books of the Odyssey, with valuable appendices on the composition of the poem, its relation to the Iliad and the cyclic poets, the history of the text, the dialects, and the Homeric house ; a critical text of the poems and fragments ( Homeri opera et reliquiae, 1896 ); Homeri opera ( 1902, with T. W. Allen, in the Scriptorum Classicorum Bibliotheca Oxoniensis ); and an edition of the Iliad with notes for schools.

There are no liner notes or production credits included, although packaged with the album is a booklet of twelve blank pages, on which listeners are invited to write or draw their own interpretations of the album's music.

' pure ') or flat ( komal, ' soft ') but never sharp, and the M can be natural or sharp ( tivra ) but never flat, making twelve notes as in the Western chromatic scale.

An octave -- two notes that have a frequency ratio of 2: 1 -- spans twelve semitones and therefore 1200 cents.

On the occasion of Sacher's 70th birthday, twelve composer-friends of his ( Conrad Beck, Luciano Berio, Pierre Boulez, Benjamin Britten, Henri Dutilleux, Wolfgang Fortner, Alberto Ginastera, Cristóbal Halffter, Hans Werner Henze, Heinz Holliger, Klaus Huber and Witold Lutosławski ) were asked by Russian cellist Mstislav Rostropovich to write compositions for cello solo using his name spelt out in musical notes as the theme ( eS, A, C, H, E, Re ).

) The seminar notes were eventually published in twelve volumes, all except one in the Springer Lecture Notes in Mathematics series.

The finale of the seventh symphony makes much use of a theme with all twelve notes, though it is tonal.

" This book had color illustrations of birds and it guided her to keep notes on local birds when she was twelve years old.

Some familiar cycles are discrete, having only a finite number of elements: there are seven days of the week, four cardinal directions, twelve notes in the chromatic scale, and three plays in rock-paper-scissors.

He grew up having access to various musical instruments, such as the recorder and harmonica, but did not develop an interest in the guitar until the age of twelve, when he started playing single notes.

Most MIDI synthesizers default to the conventional, Western, equal temperament tuning system of twelve pitches per octave, which makes types of music that depend on different intonation systems inaccessible.

Because of several measurements based on twelve, many Western languages have words for base-twelve units such as dozen, gross and great gross, which allow for rudimentary duodecimal nomenclature, such as " two gross six dozen " for 360.

* Intermountain: based in Ogden, Utah, the Intermountain Region ( R4 ) covers four states ( Southern Idaho, Nevada, Utah and Western Wyoming ), twelve national forests.

One year later, April 8, 1665, Nicolls issued " The Monmouth Patent " to twelve men who had come from Western Long Island and New England seeking permanent stability for religious and civil freedom as well as the prospect of improving their estates.

Private schools in the area include Western Oklahoma Christian School in nearby Clinton, serving grades pre-kindergarten through six and Corn Bible Academy in the Washita County town of Corn that serves students in grades seven through twelve.

Written in Greek by Claudius Ptolemy, a Roman era scholar of Egypt, it is one of the most influential scientific texts of all time, with its geocentric model accepted for more than twelve hundred years from its origin in Hellenistic Alexandria, in the medieval Byzantine and Islamic worlds, and in Western Europe through the Middle Ages and early Renaissance until Copernicus.

All house systems in Western astrology use twelve houses projected on the ecliptic.

Regardless of these different methods, all house divisions in Western astrology share certain things in common: the twelve house cusps are always projected on the ecliptic ; they will all place the cusp of the first house near the eastern horizon and every house cusp is 180 ° of longitude apart from the sixth following house ( 1st opposes 7th ; 2nd opposes 8th ;...).

It is unique among the twelve Romanesque churches of Cologne, and in European architecture in general, and may have been the largest dome built in this period in Western Europe until the completion of the dome of Florence Cathedral.

Admiral Yi responded with a letter written "... I still have twelve warships under my command and I am still alive, the enemy shall never be safe in the Western Sea ( the Yellow Sea being the closest body of water to Hanseong ).

WFM had the militancy of the undisciplined recruits ... From the founding of the Western Federation in 1893, its story for twelve years is that of a continuous search for solidarity ...

" The list consists of twelve sites in the Western Hemisphere.

In Western astrology, astrological signs are the twelve 30º sectors of the ecliptic, starting at the vernal equinox ( one of the intersections of the ecliptic with the celestial equator ), also known as the First Point of Aries.

Some special vehicles ran on twelve wheel chassis and the six-wheel bogie on these vehicles was of 12 ft 6 in wheel-base, based on the London and North Western Railway design.

The expedition landed at Settlement Point, on the eastern side of the bay, which was the headquarters until the abandonment of Western Port at the instance of Governor Darling about twelve months afterwards, as unfit for civilisation,

In 1970, many of his new Western followers flew to India to see him, and were present at India Gate, Delhi, when, still only twelve years old, he delivered an address known as the " Peace Bomb ," which marked the start of his international work.

The Dragons's stone-wall defence and controlled and punishing forward play became renowned and resulted in statistics such as the 1959 side remaining unbeaten throughout the season ( snatching 19 wins and a draw against Western Suburbs ); being undefeated at their Jubilee Oval home ground in twelve seasons from 1954 to end 1965 ; while in the total eleven premiership deciding Grand finals played, the Dragons conceded just five tries.

He appeared in either one or both the Motion Picture Herald and Boxoffice Magazine lists of Top Ten Money-Making Western Stars for twelve straight years and a thirteenth time in 1954, four years after his last movie.

The squadron reformed again at RAF Marham in 1983 with twelve Tornado GR1 aircraft and eighteen WE. 177 nuclear bombs, and once again assigned to SACEUR in 1984, the squadron's role was low-level penetration tactical support for ground forces resisting a Soviet land attack into Western Europe by striking targets beyond the forward edge of the battlefield.