Rimsky-Korsakov provides the following details concerning the work's genesis:

The work's subtitle was " An attempt to explain the former changes of the Earth's surface by reference to causes now in operation ", and this explains Lyell's impact on science.

A film version was made in 2003, which emphasised the work's somber, chilling mood.

Taruskin claims the historical development of the Passion ( its ontogeny ) as a work with an anti-Semitic message does, in fact, inform the work's identity ( its ontology ), even though that was an unlikely concern of the composer.

Scottish author Hugh Blair's 1763 A Critical Dissertation on the Poems of Ossian upheld the work's authenticity against Johnson's scathing criticism and from 1765 was included in every edition of Ossian to lend the work credibility.

Its opening and closing lament, " The Ballad of Mackie Messer ", was written just before the Berlin premiere, when actor Harald Paulsen ( Macheath ) threatened to quit if his character did not receive an introduction ; this creative emergency resulted in what would become the work's most popular song, later translated into English by Marc Blitzstein as " Mack the Knife " and now a jazz standard that Louis Armstrong, Bobby Darin, Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, Michael Bublé, Robbie Williams, Ray Quinn and countless others have all covered.

The work's subtitle was " An attempt to explain the former changes of the Earth's surface by reference to causes now in operation ".

In reality L ' Arlesiana was a failure which Cilea, being convinced of the work's value, tried repeatedly to remedy, making drastic and detailed alterations throughout the remainder of his life.

Realizing close to the beginning of rehearsals that a performance score was not available, NCSA enlisted the help of musicologist Philip Gossett, who was able to put them in touch with Sbragia, and his version, which was based on the original 1836 performances in Venice, became the work's critical edition.

The structure of the poem, according to McGann, is influenced by Coleridge's interest in higher criticism, and its function " was to illustrate a significant continuity of meaning between cultural phenomena that seemed as diverse as pagan superstitions, Catholic theology, Aristotelian science, and contemporary philological theory, to name only a few of the work's ostentatiously present materials.

This work's rapporteur sponsor was his old tutor, Jean Hyppolite, who was himself well acquainted with German philosophy and who was then director of the ENS.

He admitted to being a fan of Marcy Playground and Leary's outrage was eased once he learned that Capitol Records, former home of the Butthole Surfers and then-current home of Marcy Playground, had pitched the artwork to Wozniak as original work from its own art department and that Marcy Playground had no knowledge of the work's origins.

Because it is impossible to prove definitively when the Art of War was completed before this date, the differing theories concerning the work's author ( s ) and date of completion are unlikely to ever be completely resolved.

However through the 1960s it was to be French post-structuralist theory that was to exert the most influence over readings of Finnegans Wake, refocussing critical attention back to the work's radical linguistic experiments and their philosophical consequences.

This piece was to be included in the 2007 Praxiteles exhibition organized by the Louvre Museum in Paris, but pressure from Greece, which disputes the work's provenance and legal ownership, caused the French to exclude it from the show.

It begins in C major and hints at what Robert Simpson calls evolving or progressive tonality or the practice of beginning a work in one key and ending in another. The composer, who was playing in the second violins at the work's premiere, must have been gratified at the work's highly enthusiastic reception.

On this occasion Gluck's music was completely original, but the displeasure of the court poet, Metastasio, who called the opera " archvandalian music ," probably explains why Gluck did not remain long in Vienna despite the work's enormous popular success ( it was performed 27 times to great acclaim ).

Recently, a new theory of the work's authorship has been proposed by Santiago Sevilla ( see talk page ), claiming that the Infante Enrique of Castile was the original writer of the epic.

Despite the various theories of the work's origins, Rodríguez de Montalvo's Spanish version, as the only complete edition known, is considered definitive, and it was the one who made the character widely known on a European scale.

The work's enduring significance is attributed to several factors: Ptolemy's reputation as one of the greatest philosophers and scientists of the ancient world, the text's astrological importance as one of the oldest complete manuals on that subject, and the unprecedented order and quality of Ptolemy's astrological explanations.

The Piano Sonata is an example — the whole composition is derived from the work's opening quartal gesture and its opening phrase.

The objective validity of the composition, according to Adorno, rests with neither the composer's genius nor the work's conformity with prior standards, but with the way in which the work coherently expresses the dialectic of the material.

Whether Thackeray intended this shift in tone when he began writing, or whether it developed over the course of the work's composition, is a question that cannot be settled.

With the exception of Earth ( the centre of all yet influentially inert astrologically ), all the astrological planets known during the work's composition are represented.

Although Joyce died shortly after the publication of Finnegans Wake, during the work's composition the author made a number of statements concerning his intentions in writing in such an original manner.

Aleatoric music ( also aleatory music or chance music ; from the Latin word alea, meaning " dice ") is music in which some element of the composition is left to chance, and / or some primary element of a composed work's realization is left to the determination of its performer ( s ).

Titles of individual movements allude to works by Hartmann ; Mussorgsky used Hartmann as a working title during the work's composition.

Only in 1931, more than half a century after the work's composition, was Pictures at an Exhibition published in a scholarly edition in agreement with the composer's manuscript.

The tragic, even nihilistic ending of No. 6 has been seen as unexpected, given that the symphony was composed at what was apparently an exceptionally happy time in Mahler's life: he had married Alma Schindler in 1902, and during the course of the work's composition his second daughter was born.

The exact circumstances of the work's composition are not known, however.

The work's complex and enigmatic composition raises questions about reality and illusion, and creates an uncertain relationship between the viewer and the figures depicted.

Critics have praised the piece for its emotional resonance, which can be felt simply through the work's moving colouring and composition.

Bach's The Well-Tempered Clavier, an earlier set of 48 preludes and fugues, is widely held to be the direct inspiration for Shostakovich's cycle, largely based on the work's composition history ( see below ).

" Michael Farr believed that this was particularly evident, remarking that the work's composition looked hastily produced, with many drawings being " crude, rudimentary, rushed ; there is none of the polish and refinement which subsequent work methods brought.

Sri Krishnadevaraya himself recounts the circumstances of this work's composition as,

These occurred when the piece was being moved from its first exhibition, and after effecting the repair, Duchamp decided he admired the cracks: an element of chance that enhanced what he had done intentionally, following the flow of energy in the work's composition.

Gillis, a prolific composer, had already written five symphonies when he embarked on this work's composition.

In the wake of the work's failure he chose not to write for the theatre for another decade.

Yet another form of titling is the use of the plural version of the original work's title, as in Aliens, the sequel to Alien, and Predators, a sequel to Predator.

Other students argue that the Spanish version came first, regarding the Spanish preface's claims of an Italian source as intended to boost the work's credibility by linking it to the Papal libraries.

") In film and theatre, a manuscript, or script for short, is an author's or dramatist's text, used by a theatre company or film crew during the production of the work's performance or filming.

The Invention of Scotland ( 2008 ) by Hugh Trevor-Roper conclusively follows the evolution of Macpherson's version ( s ) and the work's early support by some Scottish intellectuals.

When publication, teaching, and public funding of science is decided by peer committees, academic standards, and elected or appointed boards, the allegation can arise that a work's acceptability has been assessed " politically ".

G. E. Moore originally suggested the work's Latin title as homage to Tractatus Theologico-Politicus by Baruch Spinoza.

In Pierre Puget's Milo of Croton ( 1682 ), the work's themes are the loss of strength with age, and the ephemerality of glory as symbolized by an Olympic trophy lying in the dust.

Williams writes that the work's " elusive beauty ... is reinforced by this return to the Aria.

Owing to the work's expansive linguistic experiments, stream of consciousness writing style, literary allusions, free dream associations, and its abandonment of the conventions of plot and character construction, Finnegans Wake remains largely unread by the general public.

Strauss famously defied the Nazi regime by refusing to sanction the removal of Zweig's name from the program for the work's première on June 24, 1935 in Dresden.

A dramatic date under Nero ( 1st century AD ) is indicated by the work's social background and in particular by references to named popular entertainers.

The work's forty-five chapters and ninety-five appendices make up the most complete study of Tacitus yet produced, backed by an exhaustive treatment of the historical and political background — the Empire's first century — of his life.

However, snare drum sticks tend to produce too loud a sound, and since this work's premiere, the passage in question has been performed by striking the timpani with coins.

The first performance was overshadowed by views expressed in the press that the work's subject-matter was too exalted to be performed in a theatre, particularly by secular singer-actresses such as Cibber and Clive.

The chronological scope of a memoir is determined by the work's context and is therefore more focused and flexible than the traditional arc of birth to old age as found in an autobiography.

Much of his work has been ignored, although a performance in 1999 of Sly by the Washington National Opera ( the work's American premiere ) marked something of a revival of interest in his works.

Interested donors make their donations to a publisher, who contracts with the artist for the work's creation and keeps the donations in escrow, identified by their donors, until the work is released.