In sacred music Merula followed the lead of Monteverdi, and often used the techniques of the elder composer ; however he also did some new things, such as writing motets for solo voice accompanied by strings.

* Georgius Merula ( c. 1430 – 1494 ), humanist

* Ancient Romans named Merula ( cognomen ), including:

:* Lucius Cornelius Merula ( consul 193 BC ), politician and general of the 2nd century BC

The flamen Lucius Cornelius Merula was chosen consul suffectus on the expulsion of Lucius Cornelius Cinna, and, upon the restoration of the Marian faction, shed his own blood in the sanctuary ( 87 BC ), calling down curses on his enemies with his dying breath.

File: De_Kay_and_Hill_1844_Plate_037. jpg | Plate XXXVII Figures 80: The Hermit Thrush ( Merula solitatia or Catharus guttatus ), & 81: The Northern Butcher-bird ( Lanius septentrionalis ) ( likely not a true Butcherbird but reclassified as a Shrike such The Northern Shrike-Lanius excubitor )

He violently attacked Politian ( Poliziano ), whose Miscellanea ( a collection of notes on classical authors ) were declared by Merula to be either plagiarized from his own writings or, when original, to be entirely incorrect.

At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Octavius and Cinna / Merula ( or, less frequently, year 667 Ab urbe condita ).

At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Merula and Thermus ( or, less frequently, year 561 Ab urbe condita ).

`` Clay '', he said, `` where are we goin ''??

But in our case -- and neither my wife nor I have extreme views on integration, nor are we given to emotional outbursts -- the situation has ruined one or two valued friendships and come close to wrecking several more.

Now we must become vague, for we are approaching one of the nation's most guarded secrets.

Thus we are compelled to face the urbanization of the South -- an urbanization which, despite its dramatic and overwhelming effects upon the Southern culture, has been utterly ignored by the bulk of Southern writers.

We get some clue from a few remembrances of childhood and from the circumstance that we are probably not much more afraid of people now than man ever was.

In fact, although we have dispelled the fear, we have not necessarily assured ourselves that there are no dangers.

We have staved off a war and, since our behavior has involved all these elements, we can only keep adding to our ritual without daring to abandon any part of it, since we have not the slightest notion which parts are effective.

I think that we are here also talking of the kind of fear that a young boy has for a group of boys who are approaching at night along the streets of a large city.

We are forced, in our behavior towards others, to adopt empirically successful patterns in toto because we have such a minimal understanding of their essential elements.

Our collective policies, group and national, are similarly based on voodoo, but here we often lack even the empirically successful rituals and are still engaged in determing them.

But it is characteristic of him, we are told, `` his little artifice '', to be able to introduce `` into a fairly vulgar and humorous piece of hackwork a sudden phrase of genuine creative art ''.

Such problems are of extreme interest as well as importance and are so much like fighting in a rain forest or guerrilla warfare at night in tall grass that we might have to re-examine primitive conflicts for what they could teach.

I will assume that we are all aware of the continuing struggle, with its limited and precarious success, toward conservatism.

Have not our physical abilities already deteriorated because of the more sedentary lives we are now living??

We are already committed to establishing man's supremacy over nature and everywhere on earth, not merely in the limited social-political-economical context we are fond of today.

So we are faced with a vast network of amorphous entities perpetuating themselves in whatever manner they can, without regard to the needs of society, controlling society and forcing upon it a regime representing only the corporation's needs for survival.

Despite this danger, however, we are informed on every hand that ideas, not machines, are our finest tools ; ;

For this concept of an Advisory Board, ancillary to the Board of Trustees, we are indebted to the late President of Harvard University, A. Lawrence Lowell, a master of the subject of the structure of cultural institutions and their administration.

They had been kind to us and we were indebted to them for one or two pleasant dinners, and for information as to where to shop, which dentist, doctor, plumber, and sitter to call ( not that there was much of a choice, since Catatonia was just a village ; ;

Finally, we may also mention the several members of the self-consciously `` neoliberal '' movement that developed at the University of Chicago and is heavily indebted philosophically to the creative work of Alfred North Whitehead.

The arrangement which Andronicus made of Aristotle's writings seems to be the one which forms the basis of our present editions and we are probably indebted to him for the preservation of a large number of Aristotle's works.

Pinchot wrote McCreight, “ we shall all be indebted to you for having made the suggestion .”

: for we ourselves forgive everyone who is indebted to us.

To Photios, we are indebted for almost all we possess of Ctesias, Memnon of Heraclea, Conon, the lost books of Diodorus Siculus, and the lost writings of Arrian.

" Especially are we indebted to the famous Chambers's Encyclopaedia ... With its publishers we have arranged to draw upon its stores as freely as we have found it of advantage so to do.

In the Musik-Lexicon of 1882, Hugo Riemann states that “ to meditations we are indebted for the modern concept of tonality … he found himself emancipated from the spirit of a particular age, and able to render justice to all the various styles of music .” Though some other theorists, most notably Matthew Shirlaw, have had decidedly negative views, Riemann ’ s assessment captures the two key features of Fétis ’ text.

The most serious move in the retrograde direction is that one we find in the determination to prohibit the further issue of States Notes ... To what have we been indebted for increased economic activity?

Nor must it be omitted that he left a considerable number of drawings and water-colours, and that we are indebted to him for a number of portraits, among which is the sad face of Heinrich Heine, engraved in the Revue des deux mondes for April 1852.

The individual character of the Kashubian character and language was first described by Hilferding, to whom we are indebted for the first data about the range of Kashubian dialects.

“ To British free trade it is, as I have shown, that we stand indebted for the present Civil War.

Our histories should tell us more of the men in the ranks, for it was to them, more than to the generals, that we were indebted for our military victories.

The marriage took place in the autumn of 1709, and on 9 February 1711, was born at his house at Reigate, in Surrey, his only child and heir, the fourth Earl, to whose manuscript accounts we are in great part indebted for the details of his father's life.

In the first place he pays more attention than any of the older historians to the missionary activity of the Christians, and to him we are indebted for much precious information about the introduction of Christianity among the Armenians, the Saracens, the Goths, and other peoples.

For our knowledge of his system, we are indebted partly to the fragments of writings preserved by Stobaeus and others.

One aspect of offering gratitude and repaying is to offer respect to parents, ancestors, and teachers to whom we are all indebted.

What we ’ ve been dealing with ever since is a painful process of “ deleveraging ”: highly indebted Americans not only can ’ t spend the way they used to, they ’ re having to pay down the debts they ran up in the bubble years.

That means that in this crisis, indebted households can ’ t spend, which means businesses can ’ t spend, which means that unless government steps into the breach in a massive way or until households work through their debt burden, we can ’ t recover.

To him, it is said, we are indebted for the preservation of the Yijing, which he received from Confucius.