Let us now compare the numbers composing some of the various academies of Europe.
The names of the gentlemen composing this Committee were:-- Dr.
The subjoined table gives the names of the various states composing the empire and the number of votes which the separate states have in the federal council.
This, as Rutherford says, has been found due mainly to a slight natural radio-activity of the matter composing the plates.
His total force in Spain, garrisoning the forts and composing his detached bands in the south, the centre, the north, and the west, amounted to a little over two hundred and thirty thousand men.
The Emperor, with all his chosen troops, composing an army of over five hundred thousand men, was on the march thousands of miles toward the north.
He became a canon of the Lateran congregation, but for composing some satirical pieces against Pope Urban VIII.
At first a mason, then a typographer, he invented an early composing machine which he called the pianotype.
They set to work, Da Ponte writing the libretto, and Mozart composing it gradually as he received it: in six weeks the whole was finished.
But in order to give the plot more interest he fell into the unpardonable error of making Mozart himself the hero of the opera, composing the "Zauberfloete" under Schikaneder's direction.
The capabilities of instrumental music in this direction are most strikingly displayed in the overture, in composing which Mozart appears to have kept before him the second title of Beaumarchais' play, "La Folle Journee.
The omission of the one instrument increases the difficulty of composing a piece full in sound and characteristic in movement, more than could have been imagined; the invention and skill of the composer are taxed to the utmost.
Duport did not forgive him, and did all he could to prejudice the King against him, although Mozart paid him the compliment of composing variations (573 K.
Many of the States composing this Union had made appeals to the civilized world for its suppression long before the moral sense of other nations had become shocked by the iniquities of the traffic.
Of the partscomposing a man, as well as of the parts composing a commonwealth, some are better, others worse.
Thus the four elements, composing the body of the Kosmos, were bound together in unity and friendship.
The remarks made by Plato on the effect of this preparatory curriculum, and on the various studiescomposing it, are highly interesting and instructive--even when they cannot be defended as exact.
In composing it, Plato has his mind full of a different point of view, to which he seeks to give full effect.
He is of a different substance from them; it is as if a painter, in composing a picture, should try to give you an impression of one of his figures by a strain of music.
I have said that Lenox was a very pretty place, and that he was able to work there Hawthorne proved by composing The House of the Seven Gables with a good deal of rapidity.
I asked him whether I was right in always composing at the piano.
Thus, a few years later we see, one after the other, such composers as Glazounov, Arensky, and Tcherepnin composing ballets for the Imperial Theatres.
Before tackling the Sacre du Printemps, which would be a long and difficult task, I wanted to refresh myself by composing an orchestral piece in which the piano would play the most important part--a sort of Konzertstück.
My special interest in wind instruments in various combinations had been roused when I was composing Symphonies à la Mémoire de Debussy, and this interest had continued to grow during the ensuing period.
With the exception of two melodies for some lines by Verlaine, this was my first experience of composing music for French words.
It is impossible, after the lapse of twenty years, to recall what were the feelings which animated me incomposing it.
In composing the music, I had in my mind a distinct picture of a puppet, suddenly endowed with life, exasperating the patience of the orchestra with diabolical cascades of arpeggios.
Koussevitzky, who has been at the head of this admirable orchestra for years, asked me to cooperate by composing a symphony for them.
At the beginning of 1928 I finished composing the music of Apollo.
I got him to play the second part of these pieces, and when we reached the Polka I told him that in composing it I had thought of him as a circus ringmaster in evening dress and top hat, cracking his whip and urging on a rider.
All these ideas were germinating in me while I was composing my sonata and once more renewing my contact with Beethoven.
Bent on clear and meticulous writing, he was very strict with his pupils and with himself, composing very little and working slowly, and, so to speak, under a microscope.
Concurrently with this important work, I was composing two vocal settings for the words of a young Russian poet, Gorodetsky.
Favoured by Wilks and patronised by Theophilus Cibber, the ragged, rakish fellow, slunk at nights into the theatre, and by day lounged where he could, composing his tragedy on scraps of paper.
It was then that he nominated seven Lithuanians to the task of composing the new government.
The moonlight streaming through a grated window, showed that this cabinet had been completely dismantled; stones had been removed from the walls; and several of the boards composing the floor, had been torn up and never replaced.
And herein (as has been shewn in Chapter VIII, of the manner of composing pleasing forms) the whole process will depend upon the art of varying; i.
In a word, it may be said, the art of composingwell is the art of varying well.
It will not be amiss next to shew what effects an object or two will have that are put together without, or contrary to these rules of composing variety.
The next mail did carry another letter to her father, but its composing cost Gladys no pain.
Here a synod of deputies from the towns composing the confederation, called "The Ten Thousand" was to meet periodically for the despatch of business.
The cities composing it were to be independent, and to send deputies to a congress at Athens, for the purpose of raising a common fund for the support of a naval force.
He must have possessed a very delicate musical ear, for not one of his songs is unmusical; moreover, the fact of his composing both words and music gave rise to a metrical fluidity which is one of his most characteristic features.
He spent about two years of unremitting toil in arranging the design and composing the models for the tomb of the pontiff.
There is certainly no difference in their position or contents which would justify the supposition that any peculiar dependence existed between the material composing the mound and the purposes to which it was devoted.
A deep pit, or dug hole, is near, denoting the spot whence the earth composing the mound was taken.
The figures composing the group are so arranged as to constitute a sort of enclosure of about half an acre area, which Mr. Taylor terms the “citadel.
The earth composing the mound was incredibly compact, rendering excavation exceedingly slow and laborious.
It is but another combination of the figures composing the work belonging to this series, just described; from which, in structure, it differs in no material respect, except that the walls are higher and heavier.
Instances are frequent where no ditch is discernible, and where it is evident that the earth composing the embankment was brought from a distance, or taken up evenly from the surface.
On the lower bottom or terrace, opposite to each mound, is a corresponding hole or excavation, from which the earth composing them was doubtless obtained.
The relative positions of the various works composing this group are given by the eye; they are nevertheless sufficiently accurate.
Interior to this is a ditch, from which the material composing the wall was taken.
The walls composing these singular lines are placed about two hundred feet apart, and are parallel throughout.
They are formed by the disintegration of the materials composing the bluff.
The stones composing the layer corresponding to the sand stratum were two or three deep, presenting the appearance of a wall which had fallen inwards.
Yet some seem to us more ghostly than others,--partly because of their greater relative mystery, partly because of the immense power of the phantom waves composing them.
All but one of the papers composingthis volume appear for the first time.
It was a composing draught which I desired them to administer in a tumbler of water, likewise pouring in some sweet syrup to hide the nauseous taste.
Having executed his task, for as such he regarded it, he turned to look through the strange mixture of wisdom and credulity composing the volume.
In the meantime I send you a note extracted from Mr. Webster's book by his clerk, who was of great use to him incomposing it, and who has made several corrections upon it since.
