Going back over this ground and analyzing the composition of forces which have created the present scene is one of the tasks undertaken by the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, in Santa Barbara.

Just because a tree or other object appears in a certain spot is absolutely no reason to place it in the same position in the painting, unless the position serves the design of the whole composition.

`` Speed in painting a picture is valid only when it imparts spontaneity and crispness, but unless the artist has lots of experience so that he can control rapid execution, he would do well to take these first sketches and soberly reorder their design to achieve a unified composition.

he further reasoned that frequent formulas in epic verse indicate oral composition, and assumed the slightly less likely corollary that oral epic is inclined towards the use of formulas.

Even though the bondage of his verse is not so great as the writing poet can manage, it is still great enough for him often to be seriously impeded unless he has aids to facilitate rapid composition.

-- Glycerinated muscle, in the presence of the physiological agent ( ATP ) responsible for delivering energy to the mechanochemically active proteins of muscle, has been shown to undergo a contraction which is highly sensitive both to temperature and to solvent composition in mixtures of alcohols and water.

Thermal conductivity is directly traceable to the material's porous, air-cell construction which effectively traps air or a gas in the maze of minute bubbles which form its composition.

If the photographically realistic continuity of dreams, however bizarre their combinations, denies that it is purely a composition of the brain, it must be compounded from views of diverse realities, although some of them may never be encountered in what we are pleased to call the real life.

A part of the symphonic composition is also featured in As Good as It Gets, released in 1997.

Argon is notable in that its isotopic composition varies greatly between different locations in the solar system.

The effect of angst is achieved by Shostakovich, Mahler and Berg in compositions of wide dynamic range, at times seemingly spinning out of control ( Mahler ), and atonal music using the twelve-tone row method of composition ( Berg, Schoenberg and others ) to create an angst ridden atmosphere of grotesque sound.

The purpose of the composition is to allow complex dialogue scenes to be played out without changes in camera position.

* Closure: composition of two endomorphisms is another endomorphism.

* Associativity: composition of morphisms is always associative.

The composition is jammed by clashing colors, which is unlike what we've seen in the balanced, natural, and dramatic colors of the High Renaissance.

* If M is some set and S denotes the set of all functions from M to M, then the operation of functional composition on S is associative:

In short, composition of maps is always associative.

's No Lark ," and another composition, " Re: Person I Knew " is a tribute to his producer, Orrin Keepnews.

The composition of resins is highly variable ; each species produces a unique blend of chemicals which can be identified by the use of pyrolysis – gas chromatography – mass spectrometry.

The overall chemical and structural composition is used to divide ambers into five classes.

Its chemical composition makes it difficult to match the amber to its producers – it is most similar to the resins produced by flowering plants ; however, there are no flowering plant fossils until the Cretaceous, and they were not common until the Upper Cretaceous.

Amber is a unique preservational mode, preserving otherwise unfossilizable parts of organisms ; as such it is helpful in the reconstruction of ecosystems as well as organisms ; the chemical composition of the resin, however, is of limited utility in reconstructing the phylogenetic affinity of the resin producer.

masses, and however advanced the metamorphism may be, it rarely modifies the chemical composition of the mass very greatly.

Because standard iron-thermite is difficult to ignite, burns with practically no flame and has a small radius of action, standard thermite is rarely used on its own as an incendiary composition.

By the 19th century it was rarely used for literary composition.

This was eventually converted into a full-fledged prize: " For a distinguished musical composition of significant dimension by an American that has had its first performance in the United States during the year .” Because of the requirement that the composition had its world premiere during the year of its award, the winning work had rarely been recorded and sometimes had received only one performance.

Since the 1980s it has been recognized that, rarely, rocks are dry enough and of a refractory enough composition to record without melting " ultra-high " metamorphic temperatures of 900-1100 ° C.

It was a composition for two ( or rarely three ) voices, sometimes on a pastoral subject.

# Meter and pulse groups that, once established, rarely change throughout a section or composition.

In Japanese gardens, individual rocks rarely play the starring role ; the emphasis is upon the harmony of the composition.

Body composition ( i. e., the relative amounts of bone, muscle, and fat ) is affected in many children with severe deficiency, so that mild to moderate chubbiness is common ( though GH deficiency alone rarely causes severe obesity ).

While the term " theme " was for a period used to reference " message " or " moral ", literary critics now rarely employ it in this fashion, namely due to the confusion it causes regarding the common denotation of theme: " he subject of discourse, discussion, conversation, meditation, or composition ; a topic.

Stylistically, his compositions show a generally increasing seriousness of tone throughout his life, but in all periods he was capable of the most astonishing mood-shifts within a single composition, sometimes within a single phrase ; rarely does the music seem disunified, since he closely follows the texts of the poems being sung.

The worldly dukes also encouraged the composition of secular music to a degree seen only rarely before in European music history, a characteristic which itself defines the Burgundian epoch as a Renaissance phenomenon.

Even if Malipiero rarely, if ever, dealt with dodecaphony, he was strongly critical of sonata form and, in general, of standard thematic development in composition.

While Gilpin allowed that nature was good at producing textures and colours, it was rarely capable of creating the perfect composition.

It is possible that the composition of a given asterisms can change over time, although this is very rarely made explicit star by star in astronomical reports.

" From the nature of their composition these " eyelet doublets " are rarely to be met with.

Their chemical composition is diverse, and rarely can a nidus be found.

From 1927 he taught composition at the Berliner Hochschule für Musik in Berlin.

He won a scholarship to the Curtis Institute of Philadelphia, where he was taught conducting by Fritz Reiner and had Rosario Scalero as an instructor in composition.

At the Academy, he was taught composition by Frederick Corder, the piano by Tobias Matthay and the clarinet by Egerton.

He taught composition at the Berlin Hochschule für Musik from 1890 until his retirement in 1910.

Xenakis frequently gave lectures ( for instance, from 1975 to 1978 he was Professor of Music at Gresham College, London, giving free public lectures ), taught composition ( notable students include Pascal Dusapin, Henning Lohner, and Miguel Ángel Coria ), and his works were performed at numerous festivals worldwide, including, for instance, the Shiraz Arts Festival in Iran.

His school lasted for over fifty years and taught the basis of liberal arts education as we know it today, including oratory, composition, history, citizenship, culture and morality.

During this time he began a musical association and close friendship with composer Ernie Stires, who taught him composition, theory, and arranging.

Barbauld herself taught the foundational subjects of reading and religion to the youngest boys and geography, history, composition and rhetoric, and science to higher grade levels.

Students were taught to focus on the overall design, or entire composition, in order to present unified works.

Martí taught composition classes free at the academia de niñas de centroamérica girls ' academy, among whose students he enthralled young María García Granados, daughter of Guatemalan president Miguel García Granados.

Busoni had a brief period of study in Graz with Wilhelm Mayer ( who used the pseudonym of W. A. Rémy and also taught Felix Weingartner ) and was also helped by Wilhelm Kienzl, who enabled him to conduct a performance of his own composition ' Stabat Mater ' when he was twelve years old, before leaving for Leipzig in 1886 where he studied with Carl Reinecke ( a former pupil of Felix Mendelssohn and Robert Schumann ).

From 1976 to 1981 he taught composition at the Musikhochschule Hannover, from 1981 to 1999 the Musikhochschule Stuttgart.

In the autumn of 1889, Herbert also joined the faculty of the National Conservatory of Music, where he taught cello and music composition for several years.

In New York City, Eisler taught composition at the New School and wrote experimental chamber and documentary music.

He also taught jazz composition at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, Massachusetts.

After learning the principles of music in several schools for blind young men across middle America, he taught himself the skills of ear training and composition.

On the other hand, Franck experienced some tensions in his faculty life: he tended to teach composition as much as he did organ performance and improvisation ; he was considered unsystematic in his teaching techniques (" Franck never taught by means of hard and fast rules or dry, ready-made theories "), with an offhand attitude towards the official texts and books approved by the Conservatoire ; and his popularity among some students provoked some jealousy among his fellow professors and some counter-claims of bias on the part of those professors when judging Franck's pupils for the various prizes, including the Prix de Rome.

After graduating, he taught English composition for two years at Georgia Tech in Atlanta.

Benjamin taught composition at the Royal College of Music, London, for sixteen years, where he became the first Prince Consort Professor of Composition before he succeeded Sir Harrison Birtwistle as Henry Purcell Professor of Composition at King's College London in January 2001.

Since 1997 he has taught music theory, history, and composition at Bard College in upstate New York.

He has taught at Mills College and as of 2012 is Professor of Music at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, teaching music composition, music history, and improvisation.

While at UCSD, Reynolds has taught courses on Music Notation, Extended Vocal Techniques, Late Beethoven Works, Text ( in relation to the Red Act Project and Greek Drama ), Collaboration ( co-taught with Steven Schick ), Extending Varese ( also co-taught with Steven Schick ), and the Perils of Large Scale Form ( co-taught with Chinary Ung ), musical analysis, as well as private and group composition lessons.

Schnittke completed his graduate work in composition at the Moscow Conservatory in 1961 and taught there from 1962 to 1972.

She learned German, French and English, and was taught music ( including singing, harpsichord, and composition ) by Georg Friedrich Händel.