It consists of regular broken chords, with the lowest note sounding first, then the highest, then the middle and then the highest again.

* 1960 – China successfully launches the T-7, its first sounding rocket.

The first evidence of polyphony with more than one singer per part comes in the Old Hall Manuscript ( 1420, though containing music from the late 14th century ), in which there are apparent divisi, one part dividing into two simultaneously sounding notes.

Sir James Clark Ross took the first modern sounding in deep sea in 1840, and Charles Darwin published a paper on reefs and the formation of atolls as a result of the second voyage of HMS Beagle in 1831-6.

The first sounding rocket flights for X-ray research were accomplished at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico with a V-2 rocket on January 28, 1949.

At first, The Penguin mostly served as a vehicle to comment upon the absurdity of human affairs ( e. g. " All I care about is fish, matey ") and as a sounding board for Reg, but became increasingly politicised.

The first, sounding closer to hard bop than some later releases, was recorded at Rudy Van Gelder's studio in New Jersey with then newcomer trumpet player Freddie Hubbard.

These two sounds, constituting a single unit of shofar sounding, were rendered three times during a service added specially for Rosh HaShanah: first in honor of God's Kingship ( malchiot ); next to recall the near sacrifice of Isaac, in order to cause the congregation to be remembered before God ( zichronot ); and a third time to comply with the precept regarding the shofar ( shofrot ).

More commercial sounding than Reproduction, it peaked at No. 16 in the UK, giving the band their first real success.

The best sounding of the recordings is the Schubert Symphony No. 9 ( The " Great "), which had been restored by RCA first ( in 1963 ) and issued on LP.

The second movement has a mysterious sounding introduction that creates an atmosphere of impending excitement, followed by a passage dominated by two harps, then the flowing waltz theme appears, derived from the idée fixe at first, and then transforming it.

His first name, Willy, reflects this childlike aspect as well as sounding like the question " Will he?

Cook's ship was one of the first ships up the river, sounding the channel and guiding the fleet as it moved up, eventually landing Wolfe and his men on the Île d ' Orléans on 28 June.

Indeed, because the TR-808 came out a few months after the Linn LM-1 ( the first drum machine to use digital samples ), professionals generally considered its sound inferior to sampling drum machines ; a 1982 Keyboard Magazine review of the LinnDrum indirectly referred to the TR-808 as sounding like marching anteaters.

The Monroe contingent, numbering some thirty-five to forty persons, entered into Major Benjamin F. Stickney ’ s house and drove his two guests, George McKay and N. Goodsell, out of their beds, having first attempted to gouge out McKay ’ s eyes and having throttled Stickney ’ s daughter for sounding the alarm.

Struble deemed the ballads of the Civil War " the first American folk music with discernible features that can be considered unique to America: the first ' American ' sounding music, as distinct from any regional style derived from another country.

The Vanguard was the first American space exploration rocket designed from scratch to be an orbital launch vehicle — rather than being a modified sounding rocket ( like the Juno I ) or a ballistic missile ( like the U. S. Army's Redstone missile ).

Principal photography was finally underway in early 1988 and Temple brought his own ideas to the table, including peppering the background with then modern sounding pop songs, featuring an homage to The Nutty Professor and using iconic model / actress Angelyne in a brief cameo ( the director declared her " the patron Saint of Los Angeles "), but Temple's studious eye for detail caused delays on the set and according to producer Tony Garnett, " The first cut we had of the picture was a problem.

The first movement, which for the most part has the character of a march, features a motif consisting of an A major triad turning to A minor over a distinctive timpani rhythm ( the chords are played by trumpets and oboes when first heard, with the trumpets sounding most loudly in the first chord and the oboes in the second ):

His first goal was to build a sounding rocket with which to study the atmosphere.

In 1884, spiritualist Emma Hardinge Britten reported a story from a Madame Kalodzy, who claimed to have heard mine kobolds while visiting a peasant named Michael Engelbrecht: " On the three first days after our arrival, we only heard a few dull knocks, sounding in and about the mouth of the mine, as if produced by some vibrations or very distant blows.

But her prettiness was what he had noticed first, and all the other things had come afterward: cruelty, meanness, self-will.

There was an artificial lake just out of sight in the first stand of trees, fed by a half dozen springs that popped out of the ground above the hillside orchard.

The first part of the road was steep, but it leveled off after the second bend and curled gradually into the valley.

No one was behind it, but in the rear wall of the office I noticed, for the first time, a door which had been left partially open.

The herd was watered and then thrown onto a broad grass flat which was to be the first night's bedground.

Once again, Tom Horn was the first and most likely suspect, and he was brought in for questioning immediately.

For Matilda, it was the first she had known in many a night.

Even the knowledge that she was losing another boy, as a mother always does when a marriage is made, did not prevent her from having the first carefree, dreamless sleep that she had known since they dropped down the canyon and into Bear Valley, way, way back there when they were crossing those other mountains.

Stevens was grunting over the last empty pocket when Russ abruptly rose and lunged toward Carmer's hat, which had tumbled half-a-dozen feet away when he first fell.

The Indian's arm whipped sidewise -- there was a flash of amber and froth, the crash of the bottle shattering against the side of the first car.

It was her first smile.

At first, I thought he was out of his head, talking wildly like this.

Hell, I gave him the first decent job he ever had, six, seven -- how many years ago was it, Rob ''??

Miss Langford ( her first name was Evelyn ) was an attractive girl.

School began in August, the hottest part of the year, and for the first few days Miss Langford was very lenient with the children, letting them play a lot and the new ones sort of get acquainted with one another.

It was just as well that the ignorant Dandy enjoyed himself to the hilt that first evening, for the room was to become his prison cell.

`` Bastards '', he would say, `` all I did was put a beat to that Vivaldi stuff, and the first chair clobbered me ''!!

In 1961 the first important legislative victory of the Kennedy Administration came when the principle of national responsibility for local economic distress won out over a `` state's-responsibility '' proposal -- provision was made for payment for unemployment relief by nation-wide taxation rather than by a levy only on those states afflicted with manpower surplus.

The first systematic thinking about this Pandora's box within Pandora's boxes was done four years ago by Fred Ikle, a frail, meek-mannered Swiss-born sociologist.

The smell at first was more surprising than unpleasant.

His collaboration with Washington, begun when he was the general's aide during the Revolution, was resumed when he entered the first Cabinet as Secretary of the Treasury.