Recent critical opinion has tended to recognize the work as a significant and lasting contribution to American opera.

" Behind Hank's public persona, an underlying " good nature " tended to shine through, which fans seemed to recognize.

As with many large families, different authorities have tended to recognize many different subfamilies, or sometimes split subfamilies off as separate families entirely ( e. g., Disteniidae, Oxypeltidae, and Vesperidae ); there is thus some instability and controversy regarding the constituency of the Cerambycidae.

While this phenomenon has been noticed by philosophers before, Evans argues that they have tended to think that it only applies to judgments concerning oneself and one's conscious experiences, and so they have failed to recognize that it is a more general phenomenon that can occur in any sort of demonstrative judgment.

After the 1970s, U. S. jurisdictions have tended to not recognize this argument as it places emphasis on " mental disease or defect " and thus on testimony by psychiatrists and is argued to be somewhat ambiguous.

Transitions of power have tended to be smooth, the new generation of leaders has proven more open to reform, and the Politburo now has some ethnic diversity.

Towards the last quarter of the century, modern Irish poetry has tended to a wide range of diversity, from the poets of the Northern school to writers influenced by the modernist tradition and those facing the new questions posed by an increasingly urban and cosmopolitan society.

Recent electoral inroads made by a number of independent candidates towards the end of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st, such as the elections of Antanas Mockus and later Luis Eduardo Garzón as mayors of Bogotá, amid a climate of perceived generalized dissatisfaction with the country's traditional political background, have tended to shows signs that past electoral trends may be weakening and the potential for diversity could be increasing.

Ethnologists in these countries tended to focus on differentiating among local ethnolinguistic groups, documenting local folk culture, and representing the prehistory of what has become a nation through various forms of public education ( eg, museums of several kinds ).

Initially developing out of the trad jazz, skiffle and folk club scenes, early artists tended to focus on major blues performers and standard forms, particularly Alexis Korner, who acted as a mentor to members of The Rolling Stones, The Yardbirds, Manfred Mann, the Graham Bond Organisation and The Kinks.

Many rural folk and some townspeople tended a small garden which produced vegetables such as asparagus, cucumbers, spinach, lettuce, beans, cabbage, carrots, leeks, and peas, as well as medicinal and flavoring herbs.

Initially, the music tended to be relatively simple, as it drew largely on guitar-based folk and folk-rock influences.

Analysts have noted in the score a significant grounding in Russian folk music, a relationship which Stravinsky tended to deny.

The folk singer Pete Seeger sang that " okay " was of Choctaw Indian origin, as the dictionaries of the time tended to agree.

Early 20th scholarly analysis of American music tended to interpret European-derived classical traditions as the most worthy of study, with the folk, religious and traditional musics of the common people denigrated as low-class and of little artistic or social worth.

The song established something of a template for Kansas music, and over the next several decades, music coming from Kansas remained in a similar folk or old-time music style, while lyrics referencing the state tended to focus on its open countryside.

This was not generally a successful tactic, and Gaelic poets tended to be folk poets until the Gaelic revival that began towards the end of the 19th century.

As a result, industrial folk songs tended to be descriptive of work, circumstances, or political in nature, making them amongst the earliest protest songs and were sung between work shifts or in leisure hours, rather than during work.

Most Yorkshire folk songs were not unique and tended to be adapted to fit local geography and dialect, as was the case with probably the most commercially successful Yorkshire song, ‘ Scarborough Fair ’, recorded by Simon & Garfunkel, which was a version of the Scottish ballad ‘ The Elfin Knight ’.

As a result, industrial folk songs tended to be descriptive of work, circumstances, or political in nature, making them amongst the earliest protest songs and were sung between work shifts or in leisure hours, rather than during work.

Early scholars of folk drama, influenced by James Frazer's The Golden Bough, tended to view these plays as debased versions of a pre-Christian fertility ritual, but this view is discounted by modern researchers.

By far the majority of the poetry of the time, however, was in the tradition of the folk-inspired " syllabist " movement ( Beş Hececiler ), which had emerged from the National Literature movement and which tended to express patriotic themes couched in the syllabic meter associated with Turkish folk poetry.

In contrast to the tradition of Turkish folk literature, Turkish written literature — prior to the founding of the Republic of Turkey in 1923 — tended to embrace the influence of Persian and Arabic literature.

By far the majority of the poetry of the time, however, was in the tradition of the folk-inspired " syllabist " movement ( Beş Hececiler ), which had emerged from the National Literature movement and which tended to express patriotic themes couched in the syllabic meter associated with Turkish folk poetry.

Since they were folk games, the early games had no official, documented rules, and they tended to change over time.

Naturally, these works tended to have many of the faults associated with the folklore and folk song collecting of their eras, and have been criticised for a focus on rural society at the expense of the urban, and an obsession with recovering what were seen as disappearing ' authentic ' and original verse, from adults, while disregarding contemporary practice by children.

As a result, industrial folk songs tended to be descriptive of work, circumstances, or political in nature, making them amongst the earliest protest songs and were sung between work shifts or in leisure hours, rather than during work.

Many rural folk and some townspeople tended a small garden which produced vegetables such as asparagus, cucumbers, spinach, lettuce, beans, cabbage, carrots, leeks, and peas, as well as medicinal and flavoring herbs.

Though this dance traces its origins to Kūya, a tenth-century evangelist of Pure Land Buddhism, by Okuni's time it had become a largely secular folk dance, and her particular adaptation tended to be known for its sultriness and sexual innuendo.

The first folk revival in the region tended to circulate around folk dance, the collection of border ballads and, from the later 1870s, the revival of interest in pipe music.

In Britain folk groups also tended to electrify as did acoustic duo Tyrannosaurus Rex which became the electric combo T. Rex.

Melodies tended to be shorter than those of Baroque music, with clear-cut phrases and clearly marked cadences.

Traditionally most computer music programs have tended toward the old write / compile / run model which evolved when computers were much less powerful.

By the 1990s, many of these bands and artists had disbanded, were no longer performing, or were being carried by independent labels because their music tended to be more lyrically complex ( and often more controversial ) than mainstream Christian pop.

While the earlier era was characterized by a dramatic use of the major and minor scale systems, impressionist music tended to make more use of dissonance.

Ferruccio Busoni's early music shows much Brahmsian influence, and Brahms took an interest in him, though Busoni later tended to disparage Brahms.

Nymphs tended to frequent areas distant from humans but could be encountered by lone travelers outside the village, where their music might be heard, and the traveler could spy on their dancing or bathing in a stream or pool, either during the noon heat or in the middle of the night.

In creating his own music, he tended to avoid the more monumental composers as models, finding relatively little kinship with or inspiration from Beethoven, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Berlioz or Franck.

Comparative musicology and early ethnomusicology tended to focus on non-Western music that was transmitted through oral traditions.

Mirra remains Alaleona's most ambitious composition and though the music tended to be " eclectic and uneven ", it showed " technical enterprise ".

This led to the development of what would jocularly become known as ' insect improv ' -- music that tended to be very quiet, very intense, arrhythmic, and by and large atonal.

Several critics have said that Stereolab lacked stage presence, arguing that Sadier's vocal delivery was too subdued and that the band tended to play instead of perform its music.

Finally, Jesus music artists tended toward mistrust of secular corporations.

Surviving bands and musicians tended to move into other expanding areas of rock music.

The style of music from series to series tended to evolve as popular music tastes changed.

Under the restored Stuart monarchy the court became once again a centre of musical patronage, but royal interest in music tended to be less significant as the seventeenth century progressed, to be revived again under the House of Hanover.

Since then, rock music and popular music contributed to a British-American collaboration, with trans-Atlantic genres being exchanged and exported to one another, where they tended to be adapted and turned into new movements, only to be exported back again.

According to Gilmartin, the love-shy tended to prefer vocal love ballads such as Broadway theatre music, brassy jazz music, easy listening, film soundtracks and light classical music, but not traditional classical music.