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 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 two movements, one melodically sentimental, the other brightly capricious, are clever enough in a Ravel-like style, but they rehash a wornout idiom.

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

" But of the specific production, the reviewer went on to note: " But Nunn's production, on one of those hermetic sets largely consisting of doors and tarnished mirrors that have become such a cliché in recent years, never penetrates the work's subtly erotic heart.

An irrevocable right to be recognized as the work's creator appears in some countries ' copyright laws.

During the 1880s, Peirce's indifference to bureaucratic detail waxed while his Survey work's quality and timeliness waned.

Christ, the Logos incarnate, is the Paedagogus of the work's title.

This work's title, translatable as " tutor ", refers to Christ as the teacher of all mankind, and it features an extended metaphor of Christians as children.

Defenders of Pauline authorship cite the work's similarities to Philemon, which is broadly accepted as authentic.

This does not always prove to be detrimental to a given work's reception, however, as the popularity of the aforementioned genre demonstrates.

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.

The work's title is A Szent Pál levelei magyar nyelven ( In original spelling: Az zenth Paal leueley magyar nyeluen ), i. e. The letters of Saint Paul in the Hungarian language.

") 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.

Duchamp and Cage played the game at the work's premier.

The astika version would add the sarpasattra and ashvamedha material from Brahmanical literature, introduce the name Mahabharata, and identify Vyasa as the work's author.

Contemporary critics were divided in their view of the work's authenticity, but most now believe that Macpherson framed the poems himself, based old folk tales he had collected.

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.

This work's version of the parable of the Hidden Treasure appears later ( Saying 109 ), rather than immediately preceding, as in Matthew.

Following this, the work's copyright would expire, with the material falling into the public domain.

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

The significance of the work's publication in English rather than German or Hebrew is captured by Harry Wolfson writing in 1926:

All Met performances before World War II were sung in French ; during the work's final season in the Met repertory, the Golden Cockerel was sung in English.

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 work's current edition remains authoritative under the name Benjamin's Sale of Goods.

The edition of Nonnus in the Loeb Classical Library includes a " mythological introduction " which charts the " decline " of Dionysiac mythology in the poem and implies that the work's only value is as a repository of lost mythology.

For that edition, he undertook a large-scale revision of the Confessions, more than doubling the work's length.