Word: portion
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Winchester with its ruins and historical associations followed. A charming view of a portion of the Dean's grounds about the summer house of Charles the Second was most acceptable...
...would place the whole burden of taxation on a small portion of the community; b. it would prevent the poor from owning desirable land, P, 6 L. T. Dis.; c. it would violate the fundamental principles of taxation-universality, equality, ability...
...Herford read a portion of the 6th chapter, not, he said, to enlarge upon it or explain it, but because this chapter so well illustrated his text...
...itself was interesting, but not remarkably so. The use of the various instruments did not seem so graceful nor so skillful as is often the case in music of this composer and of others of the French school. It would be hardly fair, however, to judge of the orchestral portion of the work from this one hearing, as the performance was, at times, extremely ragged and lacking in precision. Several times the pianist got ahead of the orchestra. For the work of the pianist herself there can be only praise...
...flow of sound composing a piece of music result in a larger periodic structure; these may be, apart from actual interruptions of continuity, the tendency of musical movement to repeat itself, or to delay upon a long held note or chord, or to change completely in character. A portion of musical texture outlined in this way is called a phrase, subject or theme. The compass of these larger periodicities in composition exhibits a great degree of uniformity, two, four, eight or sixteen bars being their commonest duration. This structure of beats bars and phrases or (larger) periods is commonly explained...