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There are videos about the importance and difference of treble and bass clefs; there is a list of music terms and what they mean, and the site even contains videos entailing the transposition of music. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z
Check your transposition by playing it to see if it sounds right. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z
If you are changing keys to play with another instrumentalist who is transposing or who is playing in a different key from you, you will need to figure out the correct transposition. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z
If you want to get really complicated, you can apply both transposition and substitution to the same message. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z
This step is very important; if you use the wrong key signature, the transposition will not work. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z
The transposition you will use for one of these instruments will depend on what type of part you have in hand, and what instrument you would like to play that part. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z
The Nokia phone plays a high, electrical transposition of the “Ode to Joy.” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z
While William’s rail fence cipher is easy to read, transposition ciphers can get much more complex. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z
That's what is called transposition, because we have merely rearranged or transposed the letters from their original arrangement or order.... The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z
If you already know what transposition you need, you can go to step two. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z
The following pentatonic scale, for example, is not simply another transposition of the "black key" pentatonic scale; the pattern of intervals between the notes is different. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z
By performing many transpositions on the same plaintext, and shuffling the columns, you can create a baffling message. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z
However, because of the instrument's history, older orchestral parts may be in any conceivable transposition, even changing transpositions in the middle of the piece. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z
There are some ways to avoid having to do the transposition yourself, but learning to transpose can be very useful for performers, composers, and arrangers. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z
A rail fence cipher is a type of transposition cipher. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z
If you don't like playing some of the chords in your new key, or if you have changed the key too much or not enough, try a different transposition. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z
It was time for transposition and docking, the maneuver by which we would attach Columbia to Eagle, nose to nose. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z
If that doesn't seem to work for your piece, try a transposition that makes the most common chord an easy chord. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z
The transposition you choose will depend on why you are transposing. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z
This may seem counterintuitive, but remember, you are basically compensating for the transposition that is "built into" the instrument. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z
Gordon went to his house upstate and rewrote, making changes up until the production was frozen ahead of critics previews, nips here, transpositions there. Composer Ian Ricky Gordon premieres 2 operas in 5-day span 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z
Carpenter, playing a small Deconet instrument, handled the difficult violin solos in the Vivaldi compositions without transposition and mostly accurately but for a few gnarly passages. Mashup of sounds at Fortas Chamber concert 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z
This seminal science-fiction movie was in effect a transposition to outer of a Conrad novel about a run-down tramp steamer picking up a lethally dangerous passenger from a remote island. Prometheus – review 2012-06-02T23:07:09Z
More complicated was the entire transposition of this pastiche number, originally sung by a trio of Bobby’s girlfriends, for a trio of Bobbie’s boyfriends. Sondheim and the City: In a Rethought ‘Company,’ a Woman Wavers 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z
Ayckbourn's transposition of the story and characters from an isolated, 1890s Russian estate to the Lake District in 1935 is complete and convincing. Dear Uncle ? review 2011-07-23T23:05:53Z
Houston is a writer of great sensitivity and nuance, and her revisionist transposition promises emotional heft. The 99-Seat Beat: Ibsen's 'Enemy of the People' from a Chicana point of view 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z
The highest notes of his solo in an opera overture were, in fact, a transposition of the opening motif of the piece. Making Milton Babbitt’s Legacy Less Fearsome 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z
“It introduces a feeling of transparency and interpenetration of one element with another, of transposition and metamorphosis.” Reviving the Art of David Jones 2016-02-09T05:00:00Z
Mr. Wyeth was also unperturbed by the racial transposition of “Barracoon” and added, “Why not mix them? What’s wrong with that?” Unclothed in Andrew Wyeth’s Art 2017-06-16T04:00:00Z
That's how Time, our mythical narrator, sums up the fanciful events in “Melissa Arctic,” Craig Wright’s modern-day transposition of “The Winter’s Tale.” 'Melissa Arctic' an updated twist on 'A Winter's Tale' 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z
Fine though much of it is, the staging never quite justifies the transposition. Otello – review 2013-01-17T17:48:35Z
The transposition derives from Thoma's rather curious elision of the work with the history of itself. Ariadne auf Naxos – review 2013-05-19T16:00:01Z
The transposition confers a hardness on a piece that is sometimes sentimentalised, and reminds us that the is as much about the abrasions of reality as the grandeur of passion. La Boh?me ? review 2010-10-19T22:00:00Z
If Smiley’s “A Thousand Acres” was an act of transposition, “We That Are Young” is an embodiment. A Novelist Recasts King Lear as a Corporate Tycoon in Contemporary India 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z
Such street-to-stage transpositions can, and usually do, go wrong in a hundred ways. Review: From Lil Buck, History and a Chance to Flash Some Brilliance 2023-02-03T05:00:00Z
It's a reminder that the successful transposition from page to stage is not about dogged faithfulness, but creativity. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – sickly sweet 2013-06-28T10:48:00Z
A transcendental love duet, extracted from a "pantomime" on the life of Krishna, was a playful transposition of the billing and cooing of Papageno and Papagena from Mozart's The Magic Flute. John Tavener – review 2013-07-08T17:14:59Z
By this, I mean the radical sense in which fluid transpositions actually dissolve the singular point of view for a sense of mobile and shared subjectivity. Kubrick's "The Shining" in 6 parts: The obsessively-controlled sequences that unravel Jack's mind 2018-07-08T04:00:00Z
Boulanger drilled him in the nuts and bolts of musical technique: species counterpoint, transposition at sight to and from any of the seven clefs. Perspective | If you think you know who Philip Glass is, you probably don’t. 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z
Beyond such period markers, the movie also activates a host of archetypes from old Hollywood genres, slightly warped in their transposition to the present. “David Lynch should be shot”: Looking back on the madness and chaos of “Blue Velvet” and Ronald Reagan’s ’80s 2016-03-26T04:00:00Z
Arneson is represented by a panoply of ceramic sculptures and reliefs that attest to his slippery, multifaceted talent as well as his vigorous transpositions of Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism and Pop. Art in Review: ?CIRCLE OF FRIENDS?: Paintings, Drawings, and Sculptures by Robert Arneson, Joan Brown, Roy DeForest, Peter Saul, and William T. Wiley 2011-08-18T20:45:29Z
Even if nothing in previous Met history has equaled her high A, other singers have come close, sometimes adding unwritten interpolations and transpositions to show off their personal stratospheres. At the Met Opera, a Note So High, It’s Never Been Sung Before 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z
The downward transposition pushes the bass parts into tenebrous depths, especially in the concluding Magnificat, a text often given bright and sparkling settings, which here took on a majestic gravity. Music Review: Monteverdi’s 1610 Vespers at the Church of St. Mary the Virgin 2013-01-03T23:10:05Z
“Instead of wire fences to ensure the separation of classes, you’ve got security cameras and guards, and that transposition is what motivated me to help Kleber tell this story.” Kleber Mendonça Filho Directs ‘Neighboring Sounds’ 2012-08-17T20:03:02Z
But, as Michael Billington notes, Faulks himself compared any attempt at transposition to "trying to turn a painting into a sculpture". Gatsby gives theatre a novel twist 2010-12-02T17:21:00Z
“It’s basically a transposition of political and ideological fights, debates, polemical views, into the realm of a very, very primitive understanding of history and the past.” How Erdogan Reoriented Turkish Culture to Maintain His Power 2023-05-25T04:00:00Z
Even if Zemeckis et al. don’t do much with this transposition, it’s satisfying that the story’s heroes are now a Black child and woman. ‘The Witches’ Review: A Tale of Mice and Women, Toil and Trouble 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z
But this 162-minute transposition of “King Lear” to feudal Japan is the only one of those films in color. Movie Listings for Feb. 26-Mar. 3 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z
The man who helped to originate conceptual staging, with his historically displaced productions of “Macbeth” and “Julius Caesar,” felt that such radical transpositions had no place in opera. Orson Welles, Musician 2015-12-07T05:00:00Z
The transposition to modern-day New York is a mistake, too, as the characters still seem stuck in the late 1960s in their gender politics, language and hangups about marriage. Company ? review 2011-02-10T17:35:05Z
Unlike similar transpositions, Tony Cownie's production – weak on thwarted romance, strong on comic timing – works on its own terms and allows you to forget the context of the original. The Cherry Orchard 2010-04-20T22:30:00Z
In this sense, the transposition fits well: it plays to possible audience preconceptions about the communality and hierarchical structuring of life in India that map effectively on to similar structuring in Elizabethan England. Much Ado About Nothing – review 2012-08-04T23:05:54Z
This week: Write an original Q-A joke featuring a spoonerism, the transposition of the beginnings of different words, as in the entries above from our 1995 contest. Style Invitational Week 1463: Fork over some (new) spoonerisms 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z
Visconti originally planned to set it in independent Algeria, a transposition vetoed by Camus’s widow, Francine Camus. ‘The Stranger,’ Made All the More So in the Person of Mastroianni 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z
Or the transposition of Bizet's masterpiece from Seville, a noble city in the Spanish south, to Seville, Ohio, a hick town in the American midwest. Carmen; Juan Diego Fl?rez ? review 2011-01-23T00:06:31Z
Because the part carrying the cantus firmus moves lower in pitch through transposition, the “Agnus Dei” movement sits quite low, which flatters the group’s attractive lower voices. Classical recordings: early voices in new lights 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z
There are deft and welcome transpositions of parts from male to female: let's hope this is the beginning of a trail of such roles for the beautifully wary but candid Deborah Findlay. Timon of Athens; Peace Camp; The Only True History of Lizzie Finn – review 2012-07-21T23:05:46Z
At times Mr. Tepfer recasts the harmony, tending to mood and hue; elsewhere he goes in for faintly comic departures, making a sport of transposition. Music: Jazz Records Inspired by Paul Motian 2011-12-04T04:03:06Z
Interestingly, genes that mapped near the hypothetical proteins involved activities in DNA mobilization and transposition, meaning the ability to move genes into, around or out of the bacterial genome. Fecal microbe transplants: B. vulgatus genes that correlate with early colonization 2023-10-13T04:00:00Z
Gonidakis, a key champion of the August amendment to raise the threshold for constitutional changes to 60%, said educating voters on the transposition of the ballot labels will be a challenge. Backers blast approved ballot language for Ohio’s fall abortion amendment as misleading 2023-08-24T04:00:00Z
Those connections come vibrantly alive in this script, which Smith claims “is, for the most part, a direct transposition of the Wife of Bath’s prologue and tale.” Review | 600 years later, this ‘nasty woman’ is still stirring up trouble 2023-02-15T05:00:00Z
But here the character transpositions are half the pleasure. Review | This just in! ‘Much Ado’ set in a TV news studio is nothing but fun 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z
“Bacharach does transpositions and surprise modulations and extra beats and phrases,” Morris continues. Dancemaker Mark Morris’s homage to Burt Bacharach was no light lift 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z
So Monet’s transposition of the empirical world into colored light can also be seen in the context of Buddhist ideas about the interconnectedness of all things. Perspective | Monet’s towering obsession
I’ve always wondered if go-go is a subconscious, communal transposition of D.C.'s summer humidity into rhythm — a music that feels sticky and slow, enveloping and enlivening. Perspective | Something in the Water hints at something in the air 2022-06-16T04:00:00Z
"The transposition of the Paris agreement into company statutes would open a field of potentially huge and dangerous legal disputes," Chief Executive Patrick Pouyanne told shareholders in a mostly empty room. TotalEnergies investors back company's climate plan despite protests 2022-05-25T04:00:00Z
“Tractor,” in its dementedly literal-minded transposition of abandoned machinery into intense, aesthetic presence, is also marvelous. Review | Is acclaimed sculptor Charles Ray losing his magic touch? 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z
He has suggested that the ideology of the Ku Klux Klan is “a simple transposition of critical race theory’s basic tenets.” Perspective | Critical race theory’s opponents are sure it’s bad. Whatever it is. 2021-07-02T04:00:00Z
It is not the transposition of that well-trod narrative and its character types that compels; it is the contrast sharpened in the act. Review: Edith Wharton in the time of Trump: a new novel reinvents 'Ethan Frome' 2021-02-18T05:00:00Z
Experts believed it was a transposition cipher but were mystified by the arrangement of strange markings. The Zodiac Killer sent a cipher 51 years ago; a team of amateur code-breakers just cracked it 2020-12-11T05:00:00Z
The transposition of logos and imagery from fiction onto political causes is not a new phenomenon. Meet "Blue Lives Mickey": What the worst t-shirt in the world says about America 2020-01-05T05:00:00Z
Klompe and colleagues’ findings illuminate how evolution in microbes can morph, shuffle and combine components to come up with radical new solutions to problems — in this case, resulting in an RNA-guided transposition of DNA. Hijack of CRISPR defences by selfish genes holds clinical promise 2019-06-11T04:00:00Z
I tried to press the topic with Salahi, but it was as if his transfer from Guantánamo had carried with it a kind of transposition of restraint, from shackles to self-policing. Guantánamo’s Darkest Secret 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z
Smith is better placed than most to understand the demands of cultural transposition: as translator of three novels by Han, she had to negotiate Korean systems of religious belief, family relationships and linguistic practice. 'It's a silent conversation': authors and translators on their unique relationship 2019-04-06T04:00:00Z
Rooney’s transposition of Internet voice to the page brings a certain tension to her narration. Sally Rooney Gets in Your Head 2018-12-31T05:00:00Z
The state audit said it was actually 310 permits that were revoked and said the number was misstated because of a transposition error. Audit details errors Florida made in issuing gun permits 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z
This RNA-directed mechanism for DNA transposition avoids the need for double-strand breaks or long flanking sequences, and thus might help to address some of the shortcomings of conventional gene editing. Hijack of CRISPR defences by selfish genes holds clinical promise 2019-06-11T04:00:00Z
In a statement, Dr. Wansink admitted to making “typos, transposition errors and some statistical mistakes” in his papers. More Evidence That Nutrition Studies Don’t Always Add Up 2018-09-29T04:00:00Z
Not surprisingly, this process often resulted in “an extreme transposition of data,” a 2016 study found. The Billion-Dollar Fiefs 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z
Single-copy genes define a conserved order between rice and wheat for understanding differences caused by duplication, deletion, and transposition of genes. Genome sequence of the progenitor of wheat A subgenome Triticum urartu 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z
Cook visited two nerve specialists, both of whom ordered immediate nerve transposition surgery. Two years of injuries and recoveries, one meaningful inning for Ryan Cook and the Mariners 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z
The most common heart problem, Halpern told me, is the transposition of the great arteries: instead of the great vessels arising from the heart criss-crossing over each other as they should, they lie in parallel. Situs inversus and my 'through the looking glass' body 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z
But for the transposition of the “t” and “r,” it was identical to the firm’s actual domain name. Cyber researchers confirm Russian government hack of Democratic National Committee 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z
His single ventricular transposition of the aorta meant that he would endure seven surgeries in his life. Mother’s Day without her son: ‘I knew from the beginning he would probably die before I did.’ 2016-05-07T04:00:00Z
Cluchey went on to write his own plays, including The Cage, which might be considered a transposition of Godot from within prison, the warden filling in as the nonexistent character of the title. Beckett's prison protege: the inmate who became a top interpreter of writer's work 2016-01-03T05:00:00Z
A general consensus seems to have emerged that while Black Lives Matter’s basic demands are justified and urgent, the transposition of its ideology to the college campus has been less compelling. Good Riddance, 'House Master'—That Demand Actually Made Sense 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z
This game  is an example of a very rare game type often referred to as a "transposition game." LSAT Trends to Know While Preparing for Upcoming Tests 2015-08-24T04:00:00Z
They also reorder their own feeds to show how their priorities differ from the algorithm’s, providing what Facebook calls a transposition score. Here's How Your Facebook News Feed Actually Works 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z
Rejecting the tempered scale and the conventional methods of formal transposition, he composed and played using a self-invented technique he called “harmolodics”. The world came to recognise the courage and rightness of Ornette Coleman 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z
Her ultimate goal is to see a transposition tower that regulates cables spanning hundreds of miles - which even she admits is "a bit geeky". A spotter's guide to pylons 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z
We reexamined Opus 81a to see why others felt that it was a direct arrhythmic transposition. Was Beethoven Inspired By His Irregular Heartbeat? 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z
“Hamilton” is not a gimmicky transposition of early American history to a contemporary urban setting. Hip-Hop Hamilton 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z
In the early 1990s, a hospital in England introduced an innovative operation to correct transposition of the great arteries, a congenital heart abnormality in babies. Practicing on Patients 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z
I have therefore taken the liberty of marking up your abominable publication with a few corrections, transpositions and suggestions for happier re-wordings. Christmas round-robin letters: The revenge 2012-12-22T02:38:15Z
Three are trivial: a misspelling, a transposition of two digits, a transposition of two words. News Analysis: Stanford Organic Food Study and Vagaries of Meta-Analyses 2012-10-15T18:15:08Z
I flew back to New York and had an ulnar nerve transposition — basically, the nerve was moved so that any other problems wouldn’t bother me as much. The Former Met Bob Ojeda Relives Both Glory and Pain 2012-05-26T15:37:55Z
For example, one astounding transposition—let us give the theft a polite musical name—occurs in the second, the Gretchen, movement where Siegfried, disguised as Hagen, appears in the Liszt orchestra near the close. Franz Liszt 2012-05-22T15:16:50.923Z
It calls for faster transposition of single market legislation into national laws, better monitoring of enforcement and improved problem-solving mechanisms for citizens. VIDEO: European Parliament 2009-10-13T12:10:10Z
The harmony suffers a transposition from a major into a minor key and vice versa. Popular scientific lectures 2012-04-24T02:00:17.273Z
Circuit Court awarded damages where the chorus of a song proved on transposition into the key of the copyright song to be practically a copy of the melody. Copyright: Its History and Its Law 2012-04-23T02:00:25.937Z
That estimate, Cogley notes, was based on an inadvertent transposition of the numerals in 2350, cited in one study as the year in which the area covered by the world's glaciers will shrink by 80%. Renegade Glaciers Gain Ice 2012-04-16T17:15:18.860Z
Probably the introduction of this new material accounts for the transposition of the ransoming and the burial, as the latter is in other respects regular. The Grateful Dead The History of a Folk Story 2012-04-11T02:00:32.697Z
The task he has set himself is the transposition of a pattern of Chinese ideas concerning government from the Chinese ideology to the Western-traditionalist ideology of the twentieth century. The Political Doctrines of Sun Yat-sen: An Exposition of the San Min Chu I 2012-04-04T02:00:55.303Z
The transposition from a major to a minor key is the sole indication of symmetry remaining. Popular scientific lectures 2012-04-24T02:00:17.273Z
Mere transpositions into different keys are not expressly provided for in the copyright act; but if published with copyright notice and copies are deposited with application, registration will be made. Copyright: Its History and Its Law 2012-04-23T02:00:25.937Z
Literally, the letters of a word read backwards, but in its usual wider sense, the change or one word or phrase into another by the transposition of its letters. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary 2012-03-24T02:00:23.513Z
Who, for instance, has not smiled blandly over that famous transposition, which aptly converts "Horatio Nelson" into Honor est � Nilo? Mathieu Ropars: et cetera 2012-03-15T02:00:28.013Z
The present author follows Dr. Hsü in this transposition of Confucius, but begs the reader to remember that this is one made for purposes of comparison only, and not intended as valid for all purposes. The Political Doctrines of Sun Yat-sen: An Exposition of the San Min Chu I 2012-04-04T02:00:55.303Z
A subtle transposition of precious essences from the earthly to the spiritual plane. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z
In some places the tyrant remained inexorable, though it would have been easy for him, by a transposition of some of the intervals, to render those passages easier for the voices, without altering anything essential. Life of Beethoven 2012-03-12T03:00:21.693Z
"Seraphitus" is merely a specimen of his great powers of intellectual transposition. Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. 2012-03-05T03:00:13.070Z
And Sherrington decided that "Confound it, man!" was more effective in the later speech; so the transposition was authorized, to Dresser's satisfaction. Vignettes of Manhattan; Outlines in Local Color 2012-02-20T03:00:20.550Z
The "transposition" that he himself strove for may be clearly read in his pictures. Paul Gauguin, His Life and Art 2012-02-14T03:00:24.393Z
Nor do I believe with some of his admirers that he will bear transposition to the orchestra, or even to the violin. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z
We see that on the face of it the transposition of the simple of Nature into the subtle of Art has its dangers. Garden-Craft Old and New 2012-02-12T03:00:11.083Z
In the year 1547, there were three editions, and it is not improbable that, by the transposition of the two last figures, one of these might have been intended. The Dance of Death Exhibited in Elegant Engravings on Wood with a Dissertation on the Several Representations of that Subject but More Particularly on Those Ascribed to Macaber and Hans Holbein 2012-02-02T03:04:33.900Z
Its very essence is transposition, involution; what one might call a sort of Jump-Jim-Crow-ism: and so is theirs. Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 100, September 27, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. 2012-01-25T03:00:37.190Z
This method of transposition was used by Julius Caesar. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 7 "Crocoite" to "Cuba" 2012-01-22T03:00:24.397Z
If Jesus is "very God," and there is but one God, then the foregoing transposition cannot mar the sense nor altar the truth of one text quoted. The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors Or, Christianity Before Christ 2012-01-19T03:00:18.027Z
The transposition of letters according to a constant formula. In Jeopardy 2012-01-04T03:00:35.013Z
He is also identified in the Hindu Brahma, with no other difference than a transposition of the letters of the name. Religion In The Heavens Or, Mythology Unveiled in a Series of Lectures 2011-12-24T03:08:03.360Z
An anagram is the change of a word or sentence into another word or sentences by an exact transposition of the letters. Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 100, September 27, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. 2012-01-25T03:00:37.190Z
In its adaptation to English this method of transposition, of which there are many modifications, is comparatively easy to decipher. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 7 "Crocoite" to "Cuba" 2012-01-22T03:00:24.397Z
The reader will pardon this anticipation and transposition of years. Memoirs of Mrs. Rebecca Steward 2011-12-24T03:07:54.433Z
There are any number of formulae," I went on, "by means of which we may effect a transposition of letters, the substitution being variable or irregular. In Jeopardy 2012-01-04T03:00:35.013Z
From both sources we have seen that the dream-work consists essentially in the transposition of thoughts into an hallucinatory experience. A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis 2011-12-06T03:00:21.763Z
The transposition is complete, and the allusion most apposite. Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 100, September 27, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. 2012-01-25T03:00:37.190Z
Scientifically his great achievement is the transposition of the several books of the Politics—which were in hopeless confusion before him. Letters of Lord Acton To Mary, Daughter of the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone 2011-12-06T03:00:20.687Z
In this story I have been obliged to make a few transpositions in the mere order of the incidents, for the narrative in the original is in some places very ill arranged. Old Celtic Romances 2011-11-19T03:00:26.863Z
Moreover, the structure of the qaṣída, its disconnectedness and want of logical cohesion, favoured the omission and transposition of whole passages or single verses. A Literary History of the Arabs 2011-11-13T03:00:15.660Z
That is to say, something in the nature of an interchange had been effected; as often as therapeutic measures are successful in again reversing this transposition, psychoanalytic therapy solves the problem of the neurotic symptom. A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis 2011-12-06T03:00:21.763Z
The transposition of the character of the Tramp from an easy going good nature in the first act to that of a Dickens villain in the second may require explanation. More Portmanteau Plays 2011-11-11T03:00:27.887Z
The adaptation of the lines had been cleverly done, so the transposition of this character did not greatly injure the play. 'As Gold in the Furnace' A College Story 2011-11-07T02:00:16.163Z
But upon a slide there is not exactly such a transposition on the recovery of the motions which are correct for the stroke. Boating 2011-09-21T02:00:35.453Z
It must be borne in mind that engraving may alter original drawings much in the same way as does the transposition of a musical phrase from the original into a foreign key. William Blake A Study of His Life and Art Work 2011-09-13T02:00:35.943Z
No increase of value, he contends, can occur in the process of exchange, for an exchange is a mere transposition of things of equal value. Contemporary Socialism 2011-09-10T02:00:28.673Z
A difficulty about the carving was the more immediate cause of the transposition. My Lord Duke 2011-09-09T02:01:11.940Z
Meanwhile, on the platform the Signor was modestly bowing alternately to the audience and to his subject, the latter apparently no worse for his magic transposition. The Turner Twins 2011-08-28T02:00:36.990Z
And be it remembered that the omissions, additions, substitutions, transpositions, and modifications, are by no means the same in both. The Revision Revised 2011-07-15T02:00:18.897Z
Obviously, he said, the transposition was a clerical error, the true reading being, "Sermons from books, stones in the running brooks!" A New Medley of Memories 2011-07-12T02:00:37.147Z
The other package is now treated in the same manner, after which the supposed transposition of the balls will be easily understood. Magic In which are given clear and concise explanations of all the well-known illusions as well as many new ones. 2011-07-10T02:00:22.253Z
The principle which he has followed in this task may be summarised, I think, as follows:—Omissions, often; transpositions, sometimes; interpolations, never. The English Stage Being an Account of the Victorian Drama 2011-07-04T02:00:21.750Z
Then there are certain words with regard to which transposition is likely to take place. Psychotherapy 2011-06-19T02:00:20.053Z
The transposition in the opening sentence is infelicitous, to say the least. The Revision Revised 2011-07-15T02:00:18.897Z
There Erskine had been helpless, here these two were, and they were as modest over the transposition as was the Kentucky lad in the environment he had just left. Erskine Dale?Pioneer 2011-06-13T02:00:32.327Z
From these considerations it follows that the transposition directly of hours of travel into leagues of distance has no meaning whatever. Colonial Expeditions to the Interior of California Central Valley, 1800-1820 Anthropological Records 16(6):239-292, 1958 2011-06-13T02:00:22.167Z
The algebraist, by the transposition of mere letters, catches truths which no chain of reasoning could ever draw out of the deep. Hesperus or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days Vol. I. A Biography 2011-05-11T02:00:19.453Z
I was much pleased at this, because it showed how good my reasoning had been about the alias, for you observe that the racing name is merely a transposition of the family name. Final Proof or the Value of Evidence 2011-04-20T02:00:19.580Z
“The numerals to designate the number of letters in the words, the transposition of ‘a’ for ‘b’, and so on, and the words spelled backwards. Doors of the Night 2011-04-12T02:00:23.287Z
The transposition of the agglutinated particles would present no difficulty; cf. Man, Past and Present 2011-03-28T02:00:29.283Z
Into Danish he has done such transpositions from our literature as British Agent, The Beloved Vagabond, and—pour le sport, I suppose,—The Green Hat. My Little Boy 2011-03-12T03:00:27.087Z
This young lady, to whom I had also given the task of transposition into various keys, complained, on coming for her next lesson, that the effect upon her was very disagreeable, in fact, extremely painful. Memories of a Musical Life 2011-03-10T03:00:45.530Z
Shelley’s sonnet to Ianthe is little more than a transposition of Coleridge’s sonnet to his son. The Radicalism of Shelley and Its Sources 2011-03-08T03:00:45.010Z
This transposition of letters has a ludicrous effect on the word. paw, pronounced pah very broadly. Jamaican Song and Story Annancy stories, digging sings, ring tunes, and dancing tunes 2011-02-28T03:00:31.280Z
The literal meaning of the song, without the perpetual repetitions and transpositions, is just this: Hah! what is the matter with the young Long-knife? he crosses the river with tears in his eyes. Sketches in Canada, and rambles among the red men 2011-02-10T03:00:51.280Z
The larger part of them, indeed, are slight—the change of single words, the alteration of phrases, the transposition of verses or stanzas. The Galaxy Vol. XXIII?March, 1877.?No. 3 2011-01-31T03:00:16.193Z
In the oldest the first transposition of the theme in the Bass and several other details essential to a complete development of the idea are wanting. Johann Sebastian Bach 2011-01-26T03:00:27.060Z
The transposition of consonants, especially when s is one of them, is not uncommon in modern Cornish English. The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries 2011-01-06T03:00:47.543Z
When Paul was persecuted for righteousness' sake, how easily might "the offence of the cross" have been made to cease, by a mere transposition! Speeches, Addresses, and Occasional Sermons, Volume 3 (of 3) 2010-12-20T17:11:42.357Z
It added that it would act unless "draft transposition measures and a detailed transposition schedule are provided by 15 October 2010," effectively giving France two weeks to be compliant. EU gives France chance to avoid sanctions on Roma 2010-09-29T16:15:00Z
But he said the transposition of strikeouts and R.B.I. was not something that was bothering him particularly as long as he was getting runs across the plate. Mets? Wright Increases His Production 2010-06-18T00:01:00Z
The circumstance of the words being so nearly identical is sufficient to account for the work of transposition being swiftly and effectually done. A Cursory History of Swearing
I had got thee misrepresented to me," said the prince; "but I believe unintentionally, and by a transposition of names. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 14
But, alas! in Mr. Webster's case, admitting the transposition is real, the transubstantiation is not thereby effected; the transfer of the which does not alter the character of the sentence to the requisite degree. Speeches, Addresses, and Occasional Sermons, Volume 3 (of 3) 2010-12-20T17:11:42.357Z
C., Porkington, Maitland, Reidpeth, and the Stratford-on-Avon inscription, but the verse easily lends itself to transposition of the kind, and in MS. Erthe Upon Erthe
The fable, that Cadmus, after the slaughter of the serpent, was, like Apollo, compelled to live eight years in slavery,1017 must be considered as a poetical transposition. The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race, Vol. 1 of 2
Wherever references of this kind do occur, they as often assume the shape of some amusing transposition. A Cursory History of Swearing
It is the transposition of the serpentine into Asbestos fibre, by the action of the atmosphere. Geological Report on Asbestos and its Indications, in the Province of Quebec, Canada
So, making the transposition, it would read thus: "That fantastical notion of religion," "is an excellent thing in any matter except politics." Speeches, Addresses, and Occasional Sermons, Volume 3 (of 3) 2010-12-20T17:11:42.357Z
Other variations and occasional transpositions of lines occur in individual MSS., but are unimportant. Erthe Upon Erthe
I. 121, in which, however, there is some transposition and confusion. The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race, Vol. 1 of 2
Bombardons are generally treated as non-transposing instruments, the music being written as sounded, except in France and Belgium, where transposition is usual. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 2 "Bohemia" to "Borgia, Francis"
That, that grand instrument of transposition and renovation, has in a general sense, ever since been restrained within its mighty confines. Memoranda on Tours and Touraine Including remarks on the climate with a sketch of the Botany And Geology of the Province also on the Wines and Mineral Waters of France
But Mr. Webster, fresh from his transposition of his own relative, explains this: His friend ascribes the evils not to "true and genuine religion," but to "that fantastic notion of religion." Speeches, Addresses, and Occasional Sermons, Volume 3 (of 3) 2010-12-20T17:11:42.357Z
But neither pole circuit differs in transposition from any other regular scheme except in the frequency of transposition. Cyclopedia of Telephony and Telegraphy, Vol. 2 A General Reference Work on Telephony, etc. etc.
This apparent transposition of matter against the wind, confirmed the opinion of the existence of a counter-current in the higher regions, which had previously rested on theoretical conclusions only. Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology
In the cab between stops he tried the mechanical transposition of himself into the mountains, according to Bob's suggestion. The Dual Alliance
Thirty adolescents, suddenly possessing more knowledge than the world had ever known, had run riot, playing with hypnotism, the transmutation of matter, the Law of Degravitation, the fourth dimensional transposition of whole city blocks. Adolescents Only
To those who have the First Book of the "Paradise Lost" by heart, this sort of transposition patchwork cannot but be most offensive. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 353, March 1845
The complication of wiring at each transposition pole is increased by the adoption of phantom circuits. Cyclopedia of Telephony and Telegraphy, Vol. 2 A General Reference Work on Telephony, etc. etc.
I say limited, because we cannot speculate on the entire transposition of a group of animals and plants from tropical to polar latitudes, or the reverse, as a probable or even possible event. Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology
Repairing the sails with their shirts, they visited a river on the Eastern Shore called Cuskarawaok, and now, by a singular transposition of names, called Wighcocomoco. History of the Colony and Ancient Dominion of Virginia
When you opened your envelope, you tripped the motor of a matter transposition machine which will throw all time backward to last Friday night. Adolescents Only
Descries: used actively; points out.—'The last line of this poem is a little obscured by transposition. The Golden Treasury Selected from the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language and arranged with Notes
Maintenance of all the circuits is made more costly and less easy unless the work at points of transposition is done with care and skill. Cyclopedia of Telephony and Telegraphy, Vol. 2 A General Reference Work on Telephony, etc. etc.
Ac�na, have flower-heads which stick like burrs to feathers, &c., and seem specially adapted for transposition by birds. Island Life Or the Phenomena and Causes of Insular Faunas and Floras
Observe that transposition of the diagrams furnishes a proof of the simplest of the laws of symmetry in the theory of symmetric functions. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 7 "Columbus" to "Condottiere"
Far be it for me, or anyone else, to say that the main transposition used in "Manape the Mighty" is absurd and impossible. Astounding Stories, June, 1931
However, that quick transposition showed the child had vast power and originality. Francezka
By means of the several transpositions we are supposed to get different shades of harmony; but this is an illusion. Sketch of a New Esthetic of Music
An ingenious Mnemonic of these various moods and their reduction to the First Figure by the transposition of terms and premisses has come down from the thirteenth century. Logic, Inductive and Deductive
This transposition of the range of the melody is more developed here than in most sequence melodies, but some such transposition is a prominent characteristic of many of them. St. Gregory and the Gregorian Music
Much rather must it be of such a kind as is favourable to that loosening of the bonds that bind the atoms in the separate molecules, which must precede this transposition. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 1 "Châtelet" to "Chicago"
This really amounts to an almost absolute transposition of the classes. Violence and the Labor Movement
Nor can the fine edge of its wit, its multiple though masked ironies, its astounding transposition of Shakespearian humour and philosophy be aught else than loosely paraphrased. Ivory Apes and Peacocks
Occasional transpositions of this kind are to be found in all works wherein the investigation of doubtful points preponderates over the illustration of admitted facts, or in all works where discussion outweighs exposition. The Ethnology of the British Islands
Here, then, are above a dozen striking coincidences in this one example; and they are given with but slight dislocation or transposition. Notes and Queries, Number 232, April 8, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc
Such a collision need not of course bring about that transposition of the atoms of the single molecules which constitutes the above reaction. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 1 "Châtelet" to "Chicago"
This word, though essential to colloquial diction, becomes very tiresome when used to excess; and should be avoided in many cases through judicious transpositions of the text. Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922
Such transpositions or shiftings up or down in pitch are called Sequences. Music: An Art and a Language
Knowing nothing of transposition, he was obliged to tune his banjo—on those rare occasions when he stooped to play “second” at a dance—in the key of each fresh tune. The Rustler of Wind River
The transposition of the McArdles, like most charitable enterprises, had not been entirely a success. Money Magic A Novel
Of a large number of such collisions, therefore, only a certain smaller number will involve a transposition from left to right in the sense of the equation. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 1 "Châtelet" to "Chicago"
With one insignificant transposition, he gives them in the identical order in which they appear in Theobald's edition. Eighteenth Century Essays on Shakespeare
Then the two voices play about, with figures clearly derived from the motive, until we reach, in measures three and four, a systematic downward transposition of the material. Music: An Art and a Language
In this ironic manner the Space-Wanderer had left unquestionable proof of his visit by rendering a tribute to "innate intelligence" and playing a Jovian Jest upon an educated fool—a neat transposition. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, May, 1930
"You mean that during the period of transposition you are invisible?" Astounding Stories of Super-Science, August 1930
She quickly discerned the Sun theme and the theme of the Shadow, and alternately blushed and wept at the wonderfully sympathetic tonal transposition of her idea. Melomaniacs
A secret private code is often employed, necessitating the elimination or transposition of certain words, figures or letters before the whole will become intelligible and useful. Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome
For, since all truth is eternal, its nature can never be altered by transposition, though by this means its dress may be varied, and become less elegant and refined. An Essay on the Beautiful From the Greek of Plotinus
The loud laugh which followed this ridiculous transposition of his meaning, relaxed even the nerves of the immortal Hamlet, and he was compelled to laugh with his auditors. The Book of Anecdotes and Budget of Fun; containing a collection of over one thousand of the most laughable sayings and jokes of celebrated wits and humorists.
The resulting transpositions render it somewhat difficult at first sight to perceive the substantial identity of the matter in the two books. Dialogues in French and English
The transposition of an emotion into a lower or higher key may change its external expression; its intensity is not thereby altered. Melomaniacs
Firstly, on the deficiency, superabundance, fusion, and transposition of gemmules, and on the redevelopment of those which have long been dormant. The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Volume II (of 2)
In combining gu and mu with the pronouns, the letters of the Prepositions suffer a transposition, and are written ug, um. Elements of Gaelic Grammar
It reminded one of the old school exercise in transposing the famous line in Gray's Elegy, "The ploughman homeward plods his weary way," which has been found to be capable of over twenty different transpositions. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III
In have and had we have the ejection of a sound; in work and wrought, the transposition of one. A Handbook of the English Language
This transposition, common in earnest address, is due to close association of possessive adjective and noun. The New Hudson Shakespeare: Julius Cæsar
But I shall have to recur, in the chapter on pangenesis, to the abnormal multiplication of organs, and likewise to their occasional transposition. The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Volume II (of 2)
Do likewise suffered a transposition of letters, and was written sometimes ad. Elements of Gaelic Grammar
The single point of difference indicated by the diagram between the order of occurrence and that of arrangement, viz., the transposition of the gymnogenous and monocotyledonous classes, must be regarded as purely provisional. The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed
In wrought, from work, there is a transposition. A Handbook of the English Language
The sudden transposition of affairs made me sensitive. A Romantic Young Lady
Yet as she looked she was conscious of a momentary wonder at the seeming transposition of character in the two so near and dear to her. Moods
There was no “basting” required,—only an occasional turning of the steaks and a slight transposition of them on the harpoon spit,—so that each should have due exposure to the flame. The Ocean Waifs A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea
It is a transposition into the regions of the unmentionable, of the Dreyfus case itself. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century
This transposition which sympathy effects we cannot escape; it itself appears when we know that we are protected from the criticism of another by the complete privacy of our own doings. Hidden Symbolism of Alchemy and the Occult Arts
That the second manual of the two-manual harpsichord originated as a device for transposition is well known. Italian Harpsichord-Building in the 16th and 17th Centuries
So persuaded was I that the story only needed recasting to prove a real success that I devoted days, and even weeks, to going through the novel, and indicating where the transpositions should take place.  Old Familiar Faces
The conflict was now inevitable: for the shark, although apparently a little put about by the transposition that had taken place, had determined upon having a meal of human flesh. The Ocean Waifs A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea
This mistake may have arisen either from a misprint, or from a transposition of a portion of the sentence. Notes and Queries, Number 214, December 3, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
The derivation of the moral from selfish impulses by transposition does not resolve ethics into egoism, as Helvetius would have us believe. Hidden Symbolism of Alchemy and the Occult Arts
But he doth worse, and his title, with a transposition of letters, will more fitly reflect upon himself male dicis de amicus. The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2)
Its characteristics; it does not develop save after an interval of time.—Natural transposition of events in musicians.—Antagonism between true musical imagination and plastic imagination. Essay on the Creative Imagination
Of course he did not expect her to care about his engagement, but she should have been sympathetic; well-bred women were always sympathetic, he argued, arriving at his conclusion by an unanswerable transposition of adjectives. The Wizard's Daughter and Other Stories
The transposition of the words in question to the end of the sentence would give such a meaning, viz. Notes and Queries, Number 214, December 3, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
But we have to look at it in another aspect, which, moreover, is only a transposition, of the first. Creative Evolution
For instance, change in the accent, the elision or the addition of a letter or syllable, the lengthening of a vowel, transposition, and a hundred other little artifices. Notes and Queries, Number 33, June 15, 1850
What furnishes us the best entrance into the psychology of this form of imagination is the natural transposition operative in musicians. Essay on the Creative Imagination
The verb may be active or passive, whichever is more convenient, but rarely is the object of an active verb put first—simply because English cannot bear this transposition of subject and predicate. Newspaper Reporting and Correspondence A Manual for Reporters, Correspondents, and Students of Newspaper Writing
This remarkable mistake was caused by the transposition of a sheet from a later part of the poem—the fight with Grendel—to the first section of the poem. The Translations of Beowulf A Critical Bibliography
The new philosophy was going, then, to be a recommencement, or rather a transposition, of the old. Creative Evolution
Because he had nothing else to do at the moment, he amused himself by a process of transposition, of transmigration. Desert Conquest or, Precious Waters
The biographers of Mendelssohn relate analogous instances of transposition under musical form. Essay on the Creative Imagination
A simple transposition of the while-clause puts the feature in the first line. Newspaper Reporting and Correspondence A Manual for Reporters, Correspondents, and Students of Newspaper Writing
But Shakespeare never avails himself of the supposed license of transposition, merely for the metre. Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher
Indeed, looked at from one aspect, it is only a continuation of the metaphysics of the moderns and a transposition of the ancient metaphysics. Creative Evolution
The second of these pieces has been brought with great skill into regular form by transposition: but again one repines to find several touches gone that once were there. Recollections of Dante Gabriel Rossetti
He contemplated this result: Besides the transpositions and inversions, the impression itself was blurred and imperfect and smeared with ink. The Adventures of Bobby Orde
Temporal Clause.—A feature may often be brought to the beginning of the lead by a simple transposition of clauses. Newspaper Reporting and Correspondence A Manual for Reporters, Correspondents, and Students of Newspaper Writing
It will be seen that this process is not emancipation, but merely transposition, or change of locality. The Right of American Slavery
Under the same category will fall the transposition of s with p, as in waps for wasp, curps for crisp; with k, as in ax for ask; with l, as in halse for hazel. A Glossary of Provincial Words & Phrases in use in Somersetshire
The ingenious transpositions, which were necessary to adapt a Greek play to Versailles in the second half of the seventeenth century, called forth hostile criticisms. A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II.
The name of the tree in the native language is "Tar"; this intoxicating juice is called "Taree," and by a well-known custom of linguistic transposition it is called by English people "Toddy." Life and Work in Benares and Kumaon, 1839-1877
In repeating a prayer for the governor and the clergy and laity, the bishop inverted the precedence, it was alleged to degrade the governor by the transposition. The History of Tasmania, Volume I
Remind me the next time I am troubled by a transposition or a solopassage that it takes less muscles to smile than to frown. Greener Than You Think
If this had been the article, and a gallant editor had made the transpositions, the author could not with truth acknowledge. A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I
Seymour suggests a transposition: ‘you do, my son, look in a moved sort.’ The Tempest The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.]
On a slight transposition thus hinges the quarrel 'Twixt the fierce fanatics of Pump and Barrel. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, April 1, 1893
Their claims being quashed by this discovery, the "patriotic six" were again appointed in succession to each other,—a transposition required by the law. The History of Tasmania, Volume I
Never was he tired of relating to a grunting audience the terrible sight and effect of his master’s transposition into a spirit. Witch-Doctors
By such transposition, the rhymes are made alternate, and the concluding rhymes more emphatic. The Principles of English Versification
There, the countless alterations, erasures, interpolations, transpositions, interlineations, shew plainly enough the minute and conscientious thought devoted to the perfecting, so far as might be in any way possible, of the work of composition. Charles Dickens as a Reader
The transposition was made by Singer in the edition of 1821. The Works of Christopher Marlowe, Vol. 3 (of 3)
I could not help being struck with this strange transposition of victims. The Rifle Rangers
One case there has been of senseless transposition. The Causes of the Corruption of the Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels Being the Sequel to The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels
To the legal mind of Sam this transposition of Reginald’s name was in itself as good as a verdict and sentence against him. Reginald Cruden A Tale of City Life
For example, by the omission of one of the "f’s" and the transposition of one other letter his name, read backwards, becomes Frondello, which is at once euphonious and void of all racial offence. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, October 27, 1920
By “error” is meant the omission, substitution, transposition, or mispronunciation of one word. The Measurement of Intelligence An Explanation of and a Complete Guide for the Use of the Stanford Revision and Extension of the Binet-Simon Intelligence Scale
She read from printed notes before she knew their names, and found no trouble in making transpositions at will. Woman's Work in Music
To reason about such transpositions of words, a wearisome proceeding at best, soon degenerates into the veriest trifling. The Causes of the Corruption of the Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels Being the Sequel to The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels
See, there is a simple transposition of an item, which results in a difference of near ten thousand livres. The Black Wolf's Breed A Story of France in the Old World and the New, happening in the Reign of Louis XIV
In great oratory the same transposition takes place. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 14 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Musicians
As in the alternative test of year III, we ignore ordinary indistinctness and defects of pronunciation due to imperfect language development, but the sentence must be repeated without addition, omission, or transposition of words. The Measurement of Intelligence An Explanation of and a Complete Guide for the Use of the Stanford Revision and Extension of the Binet-Simon Intelligence Scale
So a pressure was brought to bear upon the President, the result of which was the transposition of Devens and McCrary. Perley's Reminiscences, v. 1-2 of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis
It will be seen therefore that some cases of transposition are of a kind which is without excuse and inadmissible. The Causes of the Corruption of the Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels Being the Sequel to The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels
He approved of the transposition of the speeches that Maxwell had made, or at least he no longer openly coveted them for Haxard. The Story of a Play A Novel
The same sentence becomes periodic by transposition of the less important predicate modifiers, thus―“At midnight, as the clocks were striking the hour, I stood on the bridge.” The Art Of Writing & Speaking The English Language Word-Study and Composition & Rhetoric
The transposition of letters and words, and the failure to observe marks of punctuation, point to the same thing. The Measurement of Intelligence An Explanation of and a Complete Guide for the Use of the Stanford Revision and Extension of the Binet-Simon Intelligence Scale
Thetis seems to have been a transposition of the same name, and was probably a Pharos, or Fire-tower, near the sea. A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume II. (of VI.)
Such transposition consists in drawing back a word which occurs further on, but is thus introduced into a new context, and gives a new sense. The Causes of the Corruption of the Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels Being the Sequel to The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels
The only change of any importance is the transposition of the seventh stanza. Napoleon and the Queen of Prussia
The next two sentences are quite short, and variety is given by the simple transposition in “and very good farmers they were.” The Art Of Writing & Speaking The English Language Word-Study and Composition & Rhetoric
A single omission, insertion, or transposition counts as an error. The Measurement of Intelligence An Explanation of and a Complete Guide for the Use of the Stanford Revision and Extension of the Binet-Simon Intelligence Scale
By transposition is meant playing, singing, or writing a piece of music in some other key than the original. Music Notation and Terminology
It is difficult to divine for what possible reason most of these transpositions were made. The Causes of the Corruption of the Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels Being the Sequel to The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels
The more he did to the opera, in the way of suggestion of effects and interpolations, re-arrangement and transposition of scenes, cuttings out and writings in, the more firmly did he believe in it. The Way of Ambition
We are now awake and able to bear transposition for the sake of emphasis. The Art Of Writing & Speaking The English Language Word-Study and Composition & Rhetoric
“Without error” is to be taken literally; there must be no omission, insertion, or transposition of words. The Measurement of Intelligence An Explanation of and a Complete Guide for the Use of the Stanford Revision and Extension of the Binet-Simon Intelligence Scale
After we began paratime transposition, our population climbed to ten billion, and there it stayed for the last eight thousand years. Police Operation
He was in a broad sense a realist—a man who recorded the material and the actual without emendation or transposition. A Text-Book of the History of Painting
The secret of paratime transposition belonged exclusively to the First Level civilization which had discovered it, and it was a secret that was guarded well. Temple Trouble
Music is also taught in a very scientific way, so as to afford a knowledge of the transpositions of the keys, but in spite of this, their music and singing are very American. First Impressions of the New World On Two Travellers from the Old in the Autumn of 1858
Our daily lives go on for the most part in two worlds, the world of mechanical transposition and the world of chemical transformations, but we are usually conscious only of the former. The Breath of Life
Let us not be such slaves to the placing of words as to study transpositions longer than necessary, lest what we do in order to please, may displease by being affected. The Training of a Public Speaker
Possibly there is an accidental transposition in the common text. Essays on the work entitled "Supernatural Religion"
The secret of paratime transposition must be kept inviolate, and any activity tending to endanger it is prohibited. Temple Trouble
At the slave pens, a string of two-hundred-foot conveyers, having unloaded soldiers and fighting-gear, were coming in to take on unconscious slaves for transposition to Police Terminal. Time Crime
The task is no light one—the transposition of an initial or the attribution of a casualty to a wrong battalion may mean gratuitous sorrow and anxiety in some distant home in England. Leaves from a Field Note-Book
By hyperbaton we mean a transposition of words or thoughts from their usual order, bearing unmistakably the characteristic stamp of violent mental agitation. On the Sublime
In other words, compared with other evangelical narratives which Papias had in view, it showed omissions and transpositions. Essays on the work entitled "Supernatural Religion"
That's why we don't allow the transposition of any object of extraterrestrial origin to any time-line on which space travel has not been developed. Temple Trouble
The transposition would take half an hour; that seemed to be the time needed to build up and collapse the transposition field, regardless of the paratemporal distance covered. Time Crime
He smiled quickly when I raved of music, but the moment I drifted into the theme of mysticism—the transposition is ever an easy one—I saw his interest leap to meet mine. Visionaries
A train of reflection and rejoicing not easily exhausted, and readily, by simple transposition, maintainable for an indefinite period. The House by the Church-Yard
The other alterations are not many, and chiefly consist in transpositions by which the rhymes are varied. The History of Sir Richard Whittington
The following lines defy all efforts at reading in dactyls or spondees, and require an almost complete transposition of accent. The Germ Thoughts towards Nature in Poetry, Literature and Art
It was impossible to make a transposition of less than ten parayears—a hundred thousand time lines. Time Crime
To sing the music of Donna Anna, Fidelio, Valentine, etc., without transposition or change, and to sing it with power and effect, is granted to few artists. Great Singers, Second Series Malibran To Titiens
Though the transposition of the music from a tenor to a mezzo-soprano voice injured the effect of the concerted pieces, the passionate acting redeemed the innovation. Great Singers, First Series Faustina Bordoni To Henrietta Sontag
The Greek text, as exhibited in manuscripts, is in a very corrupt and confused state, with many variations and transpositions. Companion to the Bible
Then you and my nephew can do the transposition. The Betrayal
They all entered the dome, and the operator put on the transposition field. Time Crime
The introductory epistle of the younger Pliny, describing his uncle's manner of life, was addressed to his friend Macer, who here becomes Marcus by the easy transposition of Macro to Marco. Catalogue of the William Loring Andrews Collection of Early Books in the Library of Yale University
The misplacing of this incident in LB is probably due to a transposition of the leaves of the exemplar from which it was copied. The Latin & Irish Lives of Ciaran Translations Of Christian Literature. Series V. Lives Of The Celtic Saints
I had to improvise a transposition suited for the organ, something I had never dreamt of doing. Musical Memories
Inversion and transposition are the devices by which the translator has managed to give Shakespeare in metrically decent lines. An Essay Toward a History of Shakespeare in Norway
And locate all the big antigrav-equipped ship transposition docks on Commercial and Passenger Sectors, and a list of freighters and passenger ships that can be commandeered in a hurry. Time Crime
In the preface to the "Princess of Cleves," which was acted in 1689, Lee gives the following account of the transposition of these passages. The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 07
‘Prose,’ says Friswell, ‘that with very little transposition, might make verse quite worthy of Shakespeare himself.’ Sir Thomas Browne and his 'Religio Medici' an Appreciation
They are possibly transposed from Lurka a youth and lurki a girl, such transpositions being common among the lowest classes in India. The English Gipsies and Their Language
As yet, however, this scale allowed of no transposition of a mode to another pitch; in order to accomplish this the second tetrachord was used as the first of another similar system. Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University
Shoving in the starting lever, he relaxed in one of the chairs, waiting for the transposition field to build up around him, and fell asleep before the mesh dome of the conveyer had vanished. Time Crime
The result is a pleasing transposition of the hues of this clime. At Home And Abroad Or, Things And Thoughts In America and Europe
These, if true, would be invaluable forms; but unfortunately there is every reason to believe that Nennius invented them himself, by a simple transposition of the English names. Science in Arcady
One of the many difficulties caused occurs in transposition on the piano. Music As A Language Lectures to Music Students
Of course, the transposition need not be begun until all the letters have been set apart in their proper groups. St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, May, 1878, No. 7. Scribner's Illustrated
At that time, if these people were what they claimed to be, they would have been in transposition from Industrial Twenty-four, on the Fifth Level. Time Crime
In another edition, the transposition can be effected. Three Years in Europe Places I Have Seen and People I Have Met
If the line be balanced in its properties, including balance by transposition of its wires, the electrostatic induction may neutralize itself. Cyclopedia of Telephony & Telegraphy Vol. 1 A General Reference Work on Telephony, etc. etc.
When the first steps in extemporizing on the piano are begun, the transposition advances by leaps and bounds. Music As A Language Lectures to Music Students
Another means to acquire technical mastery is through transposition. Piano Mastery Talks with Master Pianists and Teachers
He spent the half-hour transposition to Police Terminal sleeping. Time Crime
It may be corrected by mere transposition, —their contestation You were theme for, you were the word. Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies
Just how this transposition was effected is not clear. Stephen A. Douglas A Study in American Politics
It is found useful to make children say the names of the chords aloud when they are beginning this sort of transposition. Music As A Language Lectures to Music Students
He said that 'In all probability this woman had really been the wife of the Brahman in some former birth—of which transposition a singular case had occurred in his own family. Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official
One was under air attack—there was almost never a paratemporal transposition which did not run through some scene of battle. Time Crime
The second folio has, The way to study death.— which Mr. Upton prefers, but it is only an errour by an accidental transposition of the types. Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies
Queer things began happening to the plot, resulting sometimes from the violent transposition of song numbers from one act to another, sometimes from the interpolation of songs or specialties. The Real Adventure
When this work is securely grasped the treatment of chords can begin, also extemporizing of melodies with the voice, together with transposition and harmonizing of easy phrases at the piano. Music As A Language Lectures to Music Students
Of course, the transposition need not be begun until all the letters are set apart in their proper groups. St. Nicholas, Vol. 5, No. 5, March, 1878
I think they may, by understanding the passage in question as though a transposition had taken place between the words "least" and "when". Notes and Queries, Number 51, October 19, 1850
I neither think the transposition of one editor right, nor the interpretation of the other. Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies
Yet it is true that by a transposition of feelings the displeasure in the advertisement may easily become a displeasure in the advertised object. Psychology and Industrial Efficiency
Now there are three chief reasons why the musician would do well to study transposition: 1. Music As A Language Lectures to Music Students
In all these instruments provision was made in the holes and keys for transposition of the hands according to the player's habit of placing the right or left hand above the other. Scientific American Supplement No. 819, September 12, 1891
It is concerned with the transposition and communication of emotion, no matter what the emotion may be, for to poetic method the emotional material is, strictly, indifferent. Aspects of Literature
The reading of the quarto was right, but in some other copy the harshness of the transposition was softened, and the passage stood thus: Since no man knows aught of what he leaves. Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies
The same was repeated several times; but, at last, they formed a double circle, as at the beginning, danced, and repeated very quickly, and finally closed with several very dexterous transpositions of the two circles. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 15 Forming A Complete History Of The Origin And Progress Of Navigation, Discovery, And Commerce, By Sea And Land, From The Earliest Ages To The Present Time
By the time that the class has begun the study of three-part chords the transposition will become more and more interesting, as sequences of chords can now be transposed. Music As A Language Lectures to Music Students
When fitted with a slide for transposition—an invention for the trumpet in the last century—this double tubing, about five inches in length on each side, is connected with the second length. Scientific American Supplement No. 819, September 12, 1891
Its expression has no doubt been modified during four generations of democratic political independence, but the modification has consisted of an expansion and a development rather than of a transposition. The Promise of American Life
Such is the story of the Sonnets, the saddest of all stories, as it comes to us from the simple and unbiased reading of the series as it stands, without alteration or transposition. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 88, April, 1875
The transpositions that have been made are rather amusing.  Reviews
Altogether it will be seen that the study of transposition is opening a new window for them into the fairyland of music. Music As A Language Lectures to Music Students
There were a number of faded/missing letters and some transposition errors in the edition this eBook was taken from. The Lion and The Mouse A Story Of American Life
Why resort to this other, strained, awkward, ungrammatical, unreasonable transposition of additional words to grant one power distinctly and leave the other to be grafted upon it by an unjust implication? The World's Best Orations, Vol. 1 (of 10)
I was conscious of it as a transposition into another register of the scale of life. Widdershins
What he had seen was that, save for a few ingenious transpositions, the two reviews stood very much as he had written them. The Divine Fire
The sense will be perhaps more evident by a mere transposition, preserving every word: "But these sweet thoughts, most busiest when I do My labour, do even refresh it." Notes and Queries, Number 47, September 21, 1850
Bayreuth is Wagner's creation in the world of action, as the music-dramas are his creation in the world of art; and it is a triumph not less decisive, in its transposition of dream into reality. Plays, Acting and Music A Book Of Theory
It was avowedly taken from Euripides, but can hardly be called a translation, since it makes "many omissions, retrenchments, and transpositions"; though the main substance of the original is retained. Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. With An Historical Sketch Of The Origin And Growth Of The Drama In England
But this transposition of talent, and transition of gain, is no more than arose from the substitution of railroads for turnpike roads. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 339, January, 1844
The Son of the Carpenter is another peasant study, but the transposition of the Holy Family to our century. Promenades of an Impressionist
This theory has, however, been disposed of by the fact that cases in which there has been a complete transposition of the viscera have not been left-handed in a larger proportion of cases. The Brain and the Voice in Speech and Song
Rather than read these various volumes, I prepared a skeleton digest in French, sufficiently vague, which could by slight transpositions be made to do service in every case. The "Goldfish"
Not having in English a corresponding number of rhymes, will not the translator have to resort to transpositions, substitutions, forcings, indirections, in order to compass the meaning and the poetry? Essays Æsthetical
In other cases, by means of a slight transposition of date and place, I have rendered identification impossible. Recollections of My Youth
Diderot was amazed to find that his surpassing whites were neither black nor white, but a neuter—but by a subtle transposition of tones looked white. Promenades of an Impressionist
A reasonless transposition for which it is impossible to assign a cause, unless it is abbreviated from side o' the hill. Write It Right A Little Blacklist of Literary Faults
Taking B as the ground-work, A's changes are not generally of serious moment, excepting in the case of the two inserted verses, 67 and 68, and the transposition of vv. The Three Additions to Daniel, a Study
He also formulated methods of transposition and sight reading that may still be studied with profit. The Glories of Ireland
Language suffers violence by harsh or by daring figures, by transposition, by unusual acceptations of words, and by any licence, which would be avoided by a writer of prose. The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 04 The Adventurer; The Idler
Each chap has started a little revolution of his own, and takes no heed of the very men from whom he steals his thunder, now sadly hollow in the transposition. Promenades of an Impressionist
It has been conjectured that it is derived from the transposition from the Hebrew word ezor, a girdle, the zero assuming that form. Notes and Queries, Number 17, February 23, 1850
Measure the angle they made in this transposition, and the latitude and longitude of social and moral life they have reached from this Sutherland point of departure.  A Walk from London to John O'Groat's
The singular transposition of Plattner's right and left sides was scarcely observed for the first day or so, and then first in connection with his disposition to write from right to left across the blackboard. The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories
Waller often attempted, but seldom attained it; for he is too frequently driven into transpositions. The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 04 The Adventurer; The Idler
William Blake's transpositions of the Divine Comedy seem to sound the depths; Botticelli, notwithstanding the grace of his "baby centaurs" and the wreathed car of Beatrice, is the profounder man of the two. Promenades of an Impressionist
I cannot for a moment imagine it possible, that he could base such a criticism, so announced, upon no better foundation than that mere verbal transposition of the words Englishman and Frenchman. Notes and Queries, Number 07, December 15, 1849
Such imitations must be referred to this mood, unless by ellipsis and transposition we make them out to be something else; and against this there are strong objections. The Grammar of English Grammars
By a slight transposition, natural enough to untrained organs, "doxology" became "socdollager." The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 38, December, 1860
The motion or transposition will alter the thought, or the feeling, or at least the tone. Famous Reviews
Almost every page of his work exhibits some omission, addition, transposition, or paraphrase, for which no explanation can be given, and not even an insufficient excuse be offered. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 43, May, 1861 Creator
"The bed is full of sore places," he answered, with a whimsical transposition of terms. A Countess from Canada A Story of Life in the Backwoods
The supposition is sometimes indicated by a mere transposition of the verb and its subject; in which case, the conjunction if is omitted; as, "Had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me." The Grammar of English Grammars
It is suggested that a transposition of clauses may throw light on the meaning. Philippine Folk-Tales
Onomancy, or the foretelling a man's fate by the letters of his name, and the various transpositions of which they are capable, is a more modern sort of divination; but it reckons comparatively few believers. Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 3
Sometimes there is rotation, real or apparent, caused by transposition of the characteristics of the liver. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
The obligation to provide prior information shall not apply to measures which are merely a national transposition of Council decisions. The Treaty of the European Union, Maastricht Treaty, 7th February, 1992
For, if the word is taken substantively, there is certainly no ellipsis; neither is there any transposition in putting it last, but rather, as Priestley suggests, in putting it first. The Grammar of English Grammars
These changes, superficial rather than profound, were in reality a mere transposition of sentiments of the same order. The Psychology of Revolution
Sometimes the blunder consists not in the misprint of a letter, but in a mere transposition, as when an eminent herald and antiquary was dubbed Rogue Croix instead of Rouge Croix. Literary Blunders
There are several cases of complete transposition of the viscera on record. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
She considered a reply, but, nothing sufficiently crushing occurring, she ignored the other in a difficult transposition of her hands. Java Head
"To us too—the Resurrection is vital—the transposition of it, I mean—from the natural, or physical to the spiritual order." The Case of Richard Meynell
But in so rambling a writer it has not seemed to me that the laborious transpositions of later German editors were important. The Elegies of Tibullus Being the Consolations of a Roman Lover Done in English Verse
He never restored the text to its old state; wanton transpositions of passages still remain, and numerous insertions break the narrative. Life of Johnson, Volume 1 1709-1765
She was found dead in bed, and in a postmortem examination, ordered to discover if possible the cause of death, there was seen complete transposition of the viscera. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
How, then, pretend to divine that, to which the infinite succession of destruction, of reproduction, of combination, of dissolution, of metamorphosis, of change, of transposition, may be able eventually to conduct it by their consequence? The System of Nature, Volume 1
A modern tragic poet would have written,— Last night she dreamt, that she my statue saw— But Shakspeare never avails himself of the supposed license of transposition, merely for the metre. Literary Remains, Volume 2
The amotion or transposition will alter the thought, or the feeling, or at least the tone. Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Gifford supposes a transposition of the press for "No gentleman, yet a lord." Literary Remains, Volume 1
Herrick mentions transposition of viscera in a man of twenty-five. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
His former works had been published under the name of Reves, formed by the transposition of the letters of his family name. Books Fatal to Their Authors
C�sar was always stupefied on seeing the transpositions of h's, s's, and z's that she made in her letters. Cæsar or Nothing
His technique is the transposition into his waking hours of the unconscious technique of dreams. Poems of Coleridge
But if the book had been composed as it now stands, such a transposition would be practically impossible, because chap. x. is separated from chap. vii. by too great an interval. The Sceptics of the Old Testament: Job - Koheleth - Agur
Barbieux cites a case of transposition of viscera in a man who was wounded in a duel. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
And to speak of transpositions leads us inevitably into consideration of the great secret of Corot's art, his employment of what is known in studios as values. Modern Painting
A slight alteration in three letters and the transposition of two would bring our text into conformity with I Chronicles, and the conjectural emendation is tempting. Expositions of Holy Scripture Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and First Book of Samuel, Second Samuel, First Kings, and Second Kings chapters I to VII
For convenience of arrangement I make a transposition in the passage which I now place before the reader. Memoirs of James Robert Hope-Scott, Volume 2
Or by a simple transposition of the lines; And bootless, make the breathless housewife churn Skim milk, and sometimes labour in the quern. Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies
Indeed!—Why, the very devil himself, the author of the evil, shall be convinced that there is much peril in the transposition of ends. Tom Cringle's Log
The pupil may see how ellipses and transpositions and imagery abound in poetry, and how, in the use of these particulars, poets differ from each other. Higher Lessons in English A work on English grammar and composition
Pupils may note the transposed words and phrases in the following sentences, explaining their office and the effect of the transposition:— 1. Graded Lessons in English An Elementary English Grammar Consisting of One Hundred Practical Lessons, Carefully Graded and Adapted to the Class-Room
This identity of structure may best be studied in a comparison of the osseous system, or skeletons, of the two animals, which so closely resemble each other that their transposition would not easily be detected. Dogs and All about Them
There is, I think, a transposition caused by the seeming relation of point to sword. Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies
Gallery; lessons on the transposition frame, and on geometry from the brass instrument. The Infant System For Developing the Intellectual and Moral Powers of all Children, from One to Seven years of Age
The phenomenon of a transposition of verses from one part of a Gospel to another is not an infrequent one in early MSS. The Gospels in the Second Century An Examination of the Critical Part of a Work Entitled 'Supernatural Religion'
A riddle in which names of towns, persons, rivers, &c, are hidden or arranged, without transposition, in the midst of sentences which convey no suggestion of their presence. Enquire Within Upon Everything The Great Victorian Domestic Standby
How easy, then, by endless transpositions, to multiply the various numbers that may be exhibited at the mizzen-peak, even by only three or four of these flags. White Jacket or, the World on a Man-of-War
They believed him clever at effecting all that is done in gambling-hells and in robbers' caves, but with this transposition, that he would cheat in the caves, and that he would assassinate in the gambling-hells. The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness
Under this fiction he continued to publish the debates of the British parliament, hiding the names of persons and places by the transposition of letters, in the way of anagram. The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 10 Parlimentary Debates I
The last line of this poem is a little obscured by transposition. The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia
When, however, the change is one of transposition, although the text remains unaltered,—as is largely the case in Simon Lee, for example—it is always indicated. The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth — Volume 1
Yes; I was going to say," Jack continued, "this swift transposition from the cultivation of civilization to the handiwork of Nature is whimsically illustrative of the people. The Iron Game A Tale of the War
Superficial attention is that advertence of soul which applies itself to the correct recitation of the words, avoiding errors of pronunciation, mutilation, transposition, etc., etc. The Divine Office
The effect of a little transposition was marvellous, and Mr. Schwartz acknowledged that the groups looked doubly pretty and inviting. Barriers Burned Away
In the above examples the converse of E looks as if it had undergone no change but the mere transposition of the alternative. Deductive Logic
This language, with its soft elisions, its odd transpositions, its kindly contempt for consonants and other disagreeables, has in it something peculiarly human and accommodating. Italian Hours
But what I mean is that the more realistic you are the better; so long as you transpose, there must always be a transposition of tones.' Celibates
Many openings in which neither P-K4 nor P-Q4 is the first move lead to well-known positions by a simple transposition of moves. Chess Strategy
There is nothing more natural than sol-faing by transposition, when the scale is transposed. Emile
The alteration of the premisses is effected by means of immediate inference and, where necessary, of transposition. Deductive Logic
I have adopted Bentley's transposition, simply because it happened to be convenient in translating. The Satires, Epistles, and Art of Poetry
Sir R. Burton is apparently inclined to read tallectu by transposition, as he translates, "I depend upon thy say." Alaeddin and the Enchanted Lamp
A transposition of the sentence will show that the verb should be were, and not was. Slips of Speech : a Helpful Book for Everyone Who Aspires to Correct the Everyday Errors of Speaking
Yet, the world wants the details exactly as they happened; hence the transposition. The Blind Spot
Conversion is an immediate inference grounded On the transposition of the subject and predicate of a proposition. Deductive Logic
Compare a similar transposition of letters in xiii. Prolegomena
A finite number of particles is only susceptible of finite transpositions: and it must happen, in an eternal duration, that every possible order or position must be tried an infinite number of times. Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
A transposition of the sentence will show that the verb should be was, and not were. Slips of Speech : a Helpful Book for Everyone Who Aspires to Correct the Everyday Errors of Speaking
The transposition from the ancient to the modern—always a laughable one—draws its inspiration from the same idea. Laughter : an Essay on the Meaning of the Comic
Such propositions admit of conversion by a mere transposition of their subject and predicate, even though they fall under the form of the A proposition, e.g. Deductive Logic
The name arises from the modes used in early church music called Plagal Modes, which were a transposition of the authentic modes beginning on the fourth degree of the authentic modes. Dramatic Romances
That copy presented the perversion—the transposition of Scott's and Elliot's—and into that copy Scott wrote the stanzas which bear his modern romantic mark. Sir Walter Scott and the Border Minstrelsy
A priori, is there sufficient reason for supposing any transpositions, interpolations, and mutilations to have been introduced into the "Parson's Tale"? Chaucer
Indeed, transposition is to ordinary language what repetition is to comedy. Laughter : an Essay on the Meaning of the Comic
He stared blankly, startled at the sudden transposition he had been compelled to make, for the gleaming knife of Gashwiler, standing up to carve, had just then hovered above the well-browned roast of beef. Merton of the Movies
The last two secondary feet are transpositions of No. 4, Fá'i.lá.tun, namely: 9. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 10
This transposition of functions has as its result a well sinker's equipment in the nymph, an eccentric, complicated equipment which nothing suggested in the larva and which nothing recalls in the perfect insect. The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography
She made her reproaches to the master of the house, who had effected this transposition of the lamps. April Hopes
Moreover, without going so far, we see that while the transposition from solemn to trivial, from better to worse, is comic, the inverse transposition may be even more so. Laughter : an Essay on the Meaning of the Comic
Indeed this ingenious transposition was first suggested in Marshall's day. John Marshall and the Constitution; a chronicle of the Supreme court
Strato, that it comes through addition, subtraction, or transposition of the seed, or the distension or inflation of the matrix. Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies
It should be remembered that, in the discussion on the abnormal transposition of organs, we have seen reason to believe that such elective affinities are readily modified. The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication — Volume 2
The song composed by Madame Brinon was afterwards translated into English, and words and music became, by a singular transposition, the national hymn of the English nation. The Golden Dog
Far more artificial, but also far more refined, is the transposition upwards from below when applied to the moral value of things, not to their physical dimensions. Laughter : an Essay on the Meaning of the Comic
Each part of the discourse has its own place; no omission or transposition is permitted, as was done in the sixteenth century3220. The Ancient Regime
To the consequent shifting of interest is also due a transposition of names in the title. Legends of Babylon and Egypt in relation to Hebrew tradition
Five hundred, ten, and five, in Roman numerals, give the letters D X V; which by transposition form the word Dux, a leader. Divine Comedy, Norton's Translation, Purgatory
This transposition is, in truth, an additional explanation of the strangeness of her life and the nature of her talent. Beatrix
By still further curtailing the interval between the terms transposed, we may now obtain more and more specialised types of comic transpositions. Laughter : an Essay on the Meaning of the Comic
Had each thing been formed without any regard to the rest, the transposition of the Cosmos would have been endless; but now there is not much trouble in the government of the world. Laws
"I am hunting for the heiress of a Dutchman named Gobseck—it is the same name with a transposition of consonants." Scenes from a Courtesan's Life
The philosophy of Berkeley is but the transposition of two words. Meno
Had he lived in our times he would have made the transposition himself. Phaedrus
But if our analysis is correct, degradation is only one form of transposition, and transposition itself only one of the means of obtaining laughter. Laughter : an Essay on the Meaning of the Comic
Lastly, he observes the tendency to hyperbata or transpositions of words, and to rhythmical uniformity as well as grammatical irregularity in the structure of the sentences. Laws
Was there some transposition of the vital force in her involving her in inevitable suffering? Scenes from a Courtesan's Life
In a concave mirror the top and bottom are inverted, but this is no transposition. Timaeus
By a singular transposition of parts, Paul, innocent of all wrong-doing, trembled, while Madame Evangelista, though a prey to the utmost anxiety, was outwardly calm. The Marriage Contract
Exaggeration is always comic when prolonged, and especially when systematic; then, indeed, it appears as one method of transposition. Laughter : an Essay on the Meaning of the Comic
One of the most remarkable conceptions of Plato, because un-Greek and also very different from anything which existed at all in his age of the world, is the transposition of ranks. The Republic
But there is one art in which all she has would be used, for which they are all necessary—the delicate expressive body, the rich voice, the power of mental transposition. The Story of an African Farm, a novel
It must not, however, be assumed that in all words of this type a similar transposition takes place. Russia
It is frequently important to understand the curious transposition in meaning which foreign words get, e. g., commode, fidel, and famos. Criminal Psychology; a manual for judges, practitioners, and students
A word is sometimes sufficient, provided it gives us a glimpse of an entire system of transposition accepted in certain social circles and reveals, as it were, a moral organisation of immorality. Laughter : an Essay on the Meaning of the Comic
In this passage he shadows forth a general truth, but he does not tell us by what steps the transposition of ranks is to be effected. The Republic
This is, no doubt, the secret of the loss of effect so often produced by the transposition of a song from one key to another. The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals
When the upper part of the body is drawn backwards, while one is sitting down, a collection of such transpositions occur and it is very hard then to localize a blow or stab. Criminal Psychology; a manual for judges, practitioners, and students
Nobody will claim that in the transposition of willing into the expression of human capacity, the question of determinism is solved. Criminal Psychology; a manual for judges, practitioners, and students
Now, if the interval be gradually narrowed, the contrast between the terms obtained will be less and less violent, and the varieties of comic transposition more and more subtle. Laughter : an Essay on the Meaning of the Comic
This is a matter of secondary importance, like the principle of transposition which was intimated in the parable of the earthborn men. The Republic
When Hartmann says that will is the transposition of the ideal into the real, he sounds foolish, but in one sense the definition is excellent. Criminal Psychology; a manual for judges, practitioners, and students
A collection, a library, a lecture, are all tedious and boresome by transposition of the emotional state to the objective content, and in this way the ides of boredom gets a wide scope. Criminal Psychology; a manual for judges, practitioners, and students
Such transpositions may be made intentionally in this experiment, but they occur frequently through vigorous twists of the body. Criminal Psychology; a manual for judges, practitioners, and students
Here again transposition may take place in either direction. Laughter : an Essay on the Meaning of the Comic
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