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passage and rhythm
The lines describing the river have a markedly different rhythm from the rest of the passage:
* colla parte: with the soloist ; as an instruction in an orchestral score or part, it instructs the conductor or orchestral musician to follow the rhythm and tempo of a solo performer ( usually for a short passage )
* colla voce: with the voice ; as an instruction in a choral music / opera score or orchestral part, it instructs the conductor or orchestral musician to follow the rhythm and tempo of a solo singer ( usually for a short passage )
Thus scene two is a variation on a single note ( B natural, heard continuously in the scene, and the only note heard in the powerful orchestral crescendos at the end of act two, scene two ); scene three is a variation on a rhythmic pattern, with every major thematic element constructed around this pattern ; scene four is a variation on a chord, used exclusively for the whole scene ; the orchestral interlude is a freely composed passage that is firmly grounded in the key of d minor ; the final scene is a moto perpetuum, a ' variation on a single rhythm ' ( the quaver ).
" Its use can have the effect of speeding up the rhythm of a passage and making a single idea more memorable.
Billings wrote the passage in even musical rhythm, and this is reflected in how it is printed in The Sacred Harp:
As in its predecessors, the Third Waltz has the devil dancing in triple time while other groups of three move past so quickly that a larger rhythm of four is established, and triple time is abandoned altogether in the dreamlike passage near the work's conclusion.
When I finished it, I felt I had been moving with the hidden rhythm of life, that I had seen more clearly, that I had loved more deeply than is ever possible in one short passage of years.
In the first movement, the trumpet and horn passage based on the rhythm of the theme in the Todesverkündigung annunciation of death, which gradually grows stronger, and finally emerges very strongly.
The strings begin the allegro section with a scalar passage which seems to accelerate towards an upwards glissando climax, at which point the allegro entry of the solo piano unexpectedly breaks the lyrical mood in an exuberant, harmonically fluid burst of brilliance and rhythm, utilizing fragments of the first theme.
An example of a passage that might pose rhythmic coordination challenges would be a contemporary work which involved polyrhythms, in which one section of the orchestra plays a rhythm in 4 / 4 while another section plays a melody written in 5 / 4.

passage and time
For example, to move ( as the score requires ) from the lowest F-major register up to a barely audible N minor in four seconds, not skipping, at the same time, even one of the 407 fingerings, seems a feat too absurd to consider, and it is to the flautist's credit that he remained silent throughout the passage.
Most meteoritic material, by the time it reaches the Earth's surface, has been reduced to dust or to spherules of ablated material in its passage through the atmosphere.
in working with these patients the therapist eventually gets to do some at least private mulling over of the possible meaning of a belch, or the passage of flatus, not only because he is reduced to this for lack of anything else to analyze, but also because he learns that even these animal-like sounds constitute forms of communication in which, from time to time, quite different things are being said, long before the patient can become sufficiently aware of these, as distinct feelings and concepts, to say them in words.
The extent to which the public-limit price is raised by a given increase in the basic wage rate is itself a function of three things: the passage of time, the level of GNP, and the size of the wage increase.
The simple passage of an additional eleven months' time makes the second 3% boost more acceptable.
Notice, however, that the passage of time does not permit the raising of prices per se, without an accompanying wage increase.
Each time his objective had been the same -- a direct water passage from Western Europe to the Far East.
Miss Vaughan was back in top form, somehow mellowed and improved with the passage of time -- like a fine wine.
International Atomic Time ( TAI, from the French name Temps atomique international ) is a high-precision atomic coordinate time standard based on the notional passage of proper time on Earth's geoid.
In this term, he introduced for the first time his Homestead Bill, which sought to provide 160 acres for every poor family head " without money and without price "; Johnson did not rest until passage some years later.
Since the passage of the Act of Settlement, the most senior member of the Royal Family to have married a Roman Catholic, and thereby been removed from the line and later lines of succession, is Prince Michael of Kent, who married Baroness Marie-Christine von Reibnitz in 1978 ; he was fifteenth in the lines of succession at the time of his marriage.
Before the passage of the lex annalis, individuals could run for the Aedileship by the time they turned twenty-seven.
This allows smoothing out the jitter, but the delay introduced by passage through the buffer would require echo cancellers even in local networks ; this was considered too expensive at the time.
Stephen Cook asserts that the prophetic efforts of this book can be summed up in this passage " I have been the Lord your God ever since the land of Egypt ; you know no God but me, and besides me there is no savior " () Hosea's job was to speak these words during a time when that had been essentially forgotten.
It was at this time that a political battle over the so-called People's Budget resulted in the passage of an act ending the power of the House of Lords to block legislation.
If the descent were truly unbroken, father-to-son, since Confucius's lifetime, the males in the family would all have the same Y chromosome as their direct male ancestor, with slight mutations due to the passage of time.
* Time sensation ( awareness and estimation of the passage of time )
Although story events are not triggered by the passage of time, it does determine when merchants rotate their stock.
In an hourglass, fine sand pours through a tiny hole at a constant rate and indicates a predetermined passage of an arbitrary period of time.
According to some authors, it was during this time that the burlesque Spanish term " roto " ( torn ), used by Peruvians to refer to Chileans, was first mentioned given how Almagro's disappointed troops returned to Cuzco with their " torn clothes " due to the extensive and laborious passage on foot by the Atacama desert.
On the other hand, Gregory refers to Æthelberht at the time of his marriage to Bertha, simply as " a man of Kent ", and in the 589 passage concerning Ingoberg ’ s death, which was written in about 590 or 591, he refers to Æthelberht as " the son of the king of Kent ".
When the slave has been set free, he has, in the passage of time, become indistinguishable from those who have always been free ...

passage and changed
During the gradual process by which Homo erectus made a transition from furry to naked skin, their hair texture putatively changed gradually from Afro-textured hair or ' kinky ' ( i. e. tightly coiled ) to straight hair ( the condition of most mammals, including humanity's closest cousins — chimpanzees ) This argument is based on the principle that curly hair impedes the passage of UV light into the body relative to straight hair ( thus curly or coiled hair would be particularly advantageous for dark-skinned hominids living at the equator ).
After the passage of the Great Reform Bill, the nature of the position changed ; Prime Ministers had to go out among the people.
* January 1 – Assuming that the copyright laws are not changed further, all works published in 1923 enter the public domain in the U. S., the first works to do so since the passage of the 1998 Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act.
However, as a compromise to those who were against the revision, the new rule also changed the requirement for determining the number of votes needed for a cloture motion's passage from those Senators " present and voting " to those Senators " duly chosen and sworn ".
The name of Fairfield was first proposed for this county, but was changed on the passage of the bill to Butler, in honor of Captain William Butler.
In an explanatory scholium on this passage, an anonymous scholiast, echoed by Eustathius, explains that Aedon attempted to kill the son of her sister-in-law and rival, Niobe, but accidentally killed her own son instead: thus, the gods changed her into a nightingale to weep for eternity.
According to a passage in Nonnus ' Dionysiaca ( ii. 108 ) she was changed into a pine tree by the gods in order to escape him.
With the passage of time and an increasing demand in the market for lace, the way the world produced goods changed.
Aesthetically not much has changed of this unique landscape, written about in 1877, the following passage is still valid today, ' Such rough and tumble experience, climbing mountains, falling over rocks, exploring wild ravines, diving into coal mines, and riding on every description of conveyance which it has entered into the mind of man to run on.
The history of Boston, Alabama changed forever with the passage of Act 284 by the Alabama Legislature, which changed the name of the town of Boston to Brilliant.
In 1911, Avery County was established ; originally Elk Park was to serve as the county seat, but was changed after North Carolina Lieutenant-Governor William C. Newland made a deal that the new county seat would be named after him for his aid in passage of the bill.
When Seddon realised that the passage of the bill was inevitable, he changed his position, claiming to accept the people's will.
They finally changed their name to Destiny's Child in 1996, which was taken from a passage in the Book of Isaiah.
The emotional losses created by infertility include the denial of motherhood as a rite of passage ; the loss of one ’ s anticipated and imagined life ; feeling a loss of control over one ’ s life ; doubting one ’ s womanhood ; changed and sometimes lost friendships ; and, for many, the loss of one ’ s religious environment as a support system.
This changed in the mid-1930s when, after passage of the National Labor Relations Act, workers began to clamor for union membership.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passage of this act, the name of Marthasville, in DeKalb county, shall be changed to that of Atlanta.
These, he says, should be interpreted as literal descriptions which have changed during the passage of time and become more obscure.
In 1968, with the passage of the Gun Control Act, the agency changed its name again, this time to the Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms Division of the IRS and first began to be referred to by the initials " ATF ".
With the passage of the Coinage Act of 1965, the composition of the dime changed from 90 percent silver and 10 percent copper to a clad " sandwich " of pure copper inner layer between two outer layers of cupronickel ( 75 % copper, 25 % nickel ) alloy giving a total composition of 91. 67 % Cu and 8. 33 % Ni.
With passage assured, Wu voted yea as well, and Democrats Calvin M. Dooley ( CA-20 ), Jim Marshall ( GA-3 ) and David Scott ( GA-13 ) changed their votes to the affirmative.
Before the 2006 – 2007 academic year, the provision could also apply to high school students, but this changed with the passage of the Deficit Reduction Act in 2001.
He challenged the Southern practice of charging Blacks a poll tax to vote, but electoral practices were not changed substantially in most of the South until after passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which provided federal oversight of voter registration and elections, and enforcement of the constitutional right to vote.
The clock recorded the passage of temporal hours, which meant that the rate of flow had to be changed daily to match the uneven length of days throughout the year.

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