Rhythmic interest, melodic beauty and the expansiveness of the writing are all qualities which hold one's attention with the Gilels playing.

The travelling involved in the archaeology had a large influence on Christie's writing, which is often reflected as some type of transportation playing a part in her murderer ’ s schemes.

In the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s, a growing number of composers ( many of them composer-performers who had grown up playing the instrument in rock bands ) began writing contemporary classical music for the electric guitar.

In his much later years, he spent time writing short stories and songs, along with playing guitar.

' Robert Frost later remarked that writing free verse was like " playing tennis without a net.

The Song Dynasty ( 960 – 1279 ) scholar Ouyang Xiu ( 1007 – 1072 ) asserted that playing cards and card games existed at least since the mid-Tang Dynasty and associated their invention with the simultaneous development of using sheets or pages instead of paper rolls as a writing medium.

Richman grew up in Natick, Massachusetts, a suburb of Boston, and began playing guitar and writing songs in his mid teens, first performing solo in public in 1967.

Britpop groups were defined by being focused on bands rather than solo artists ; having drums / bass / guitar / vocals ( and sometimes keyboards ) line-ups ; writing original material and playing instruments themselves ; singing in regional British accents ; references to British places and culture in lyrics and image ; and fashion consciousness.

But Sir Charles Hallé was scathing, writing " He thought less of his paintings than his violin playing, which, to say the least of it, was vile ".

Unconscious muscular movements often attributed to the supernatural through physical guidance, especially artistic activity ( i. e. writing, drawing, painting, playing musical instruments, composing, dancing, and singing ).

Though DiCaprio's performance was generally well-received, with Entertainment Weekly critic Owen Gleiberman writing that " the shockingly androgynous DiCaprio looks barely old enough to be playing anyone with hormones, but he's a fluid and instinctive actor, with the face of a mischievous angel ," he was awarded a Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Screen Couple for both incarnations the following year.

He established his own recording studio and label ; writing, self-producing and playing most, or all, of the instruments on his recordings.

" Because Tolhurst was still on the payroll during the recording of Disintegration, he was credited in the album's liner notes as playing " other instruments ", however it has since been revealed that he contributed nothing to the album in either performance or song writing.

He ends up writing all their material and playing bass guitar, ( after trying unsuccessfully to get them to change their name ) as the band rises in the drug-and booze-fuelled rock and roll of the 1970s, assisted by A & R man Rick Tumber of ARC Records.

The violinist and teacher Leopold Auer, writing in his book Violin Playing as I Teach It ( 1920 ), advised violinists to practise playing completely without vibrato, and to stop playing for a few minutes as soon as they noticed themselves playing with vibrato in order for them to gain complete control over their technique.

Of the album's fourteen songs, eight were written by Lennon – McCartney ( originally credited " McCartney – Lennon "), early evidence of what Rolling Stone later called " invention of the idea of the self-contained rock band, writing their own hits and playing their own instruments ".

Each of the figures are labeled and shown either drinking, writing, or playing a musical instrument.

In making his 1981 re-recording of the Goldberg Variations, Glenn Gould considered playing this variation at a slower tempo, in keeping with the tempo of the preceding variation ( Variation 16 ), but ultimately decided not to because " Variation 17 is one of those rather skittish, slightly empty-headed collections of scales and arpeggios which Bach indulged when he wasn ’ t writing sober and proper things like fugues and canons, and it just seemed to me that there wasn't enough substance to it to warrant such a methodical, deliberate, Germanic tempo.

Classes were held in teachers ' private houses and included reading, writing, mathematics, singing, and playing the lyre and flute.

Banks has noted that he spent much time playing the Civilization computer game ( appearing to refer to the first version of the game series ) before writing the book and that it was one of the inspirations for the concept of the ' Outside Context Problem ' central to the novel.

The writing was taut, and the casting, which had always been a strong point of the series ( featuring such film stars as Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Henry Fonda, Humphrey Bogart, Judy Garland, Ronald Colman, Marlene Dietrich, Eve McVeagh, Lena Horne, and Cary Grant ), took an unexpected turn when Lewis expanded the repertory to include many of radio's famous drama and comedy stars — often playing against type — such as Jack Benny.

The following year, he began writing more extensively about his poker-playing experiences, including stories about playing Texas hold ' em tournaments locally and in Las Vegas.

And the life they lead is undisciplined and for the most part unproductive, even though they make a fetish of devoting themselves to some creative pursuit -- writing, painting, music.

Most often, the term describes those who create within a context of the fine arts or ' high culture ', activities such as drawing, painting, sculpture, acting, dancing, writing, filmmaking, photography, and music — people who use imagination, talent, or skill to create works that may be judged to have an aesthetic value.

The score, Sondheim's first time on Broadway writing both words and music, was coolly received, however, not even garnering a nomination.

After ABBA broke up in 1983, Andersson continued writing music with Ulvaeus.

From the April 1914 one-reeler Twenty Minutes of Love onwards he was writing and directing most of his films, by 1916 he was also producing them, and from 1918 he was even composing the music for them.

The crucial differences with the previous wave can be seen in the downward shift in melodies, increasing durations of movements, the acceptance of Mozart and Haydn as paradigmatic, the greater use of keyboard resources, the shift from " vocal " writing to " pianistic " writing, the growing pull of the minor and of modal ambiguity, and the increasing importance of varying accompanying figures to bring " texture " forward as an element in music.

Charles was involved in the Liverpool music scene, writing and singing lyrics for a number of local rock bands.

He performed his rap lyrics to music as a ' Wordsmith ', with his writing containing a powerful political message.

Performed by Yoko Kanno and The Seatbelts, a band Kanno assembled to perform music for the series, the jazz and blues themed soundtrack helps to define the show as much as the characters, writing, and animation.

Diderot's intention in writing the dialogue is disputed ; whether it is merely a satire on contemporary manners, or a reduction of the theory of self-interest to an absurdity, or the application of irony to the ethics of ordinary convention, or a mere setting for a discussion about music, or a vigorous dramatic sketch of a parasite and a human original.

It includes popular programs such as LibreOffice, Iceweasel ( a rebranding of Firefox ), Evolution mail, CD / DVD writing programs, music and video players, image viewers and editors, and PDF viewers.

When writing solo passages for the bass in orchestral or chamber music, composers typically ensure the orchestration is light so it doesn't obscure the bass.

Mark has gained considerable success in writing and producing music for television programs ( starting with Pee Wee's Playhouse and perhaps most famously with Rugrats ), video games, cartoons, and movies ( notably working alongside director Wes Anderson ).

She was first credited as Enya ( as opposed to Eithne ) for writing some of the music for the 1984 movie The Frog Prince, which was released on a soundtrack album of the same title.

Some estampies, such as the famous Tre fontane (" Three Fountains ") estampie, contain florid and virtuosic instrumental writing, signifying that they may have been intended as abstract performance music rather than actual dance music.

ISBN 978-0-19-533194-3 ( guidelines for writing and analyzing 16th-century music ).

His writing, particularly the so-called Cthulhu Mythos, has influenced fiction authors worldwide, and Lovecraftian elements can be found in novels, films, movies, music, video games, comic books ( e. g. the use of Arkham Insane Asylum in The Batman comic book series ), and even cartoons.

Wesley's contribution, along with the Second Great Awakening in America led to a new style called gospel, and a new explosion of sacred music writing with Fanny Crosby, Lina Sandell, Philip Bliss, Ira D. Sankey, and others who produced testimonial music for revivals, camp meetings, and evangelistic crusades.

During the social and cultural climate of the ancient Eastern Jin Dynasty ( 316-420 AD ) based at Nanjing in the south, painting became one of the official pastimes of Confucian-taught bureaucratic officials and aristocrats ( along with music played by the guqin zither, writing fanciful calligraphy, and writing and reciting of poetry ).

Other contemporary composers writing new harpsichord music in period styles include Grant Colburn, and Fernando De Luca.