The latter, the melos, or song proper, had reached a height of technical perfection in "the Isles of Greece, where burning Sappho loved and sung," as early as the 7th century bc.
The drawings became the basis of his life's work, through which he demonstrated that the manufacture of lutes between 1550 and 1750 achieved unimagined heights of technical refinement and artistic worth.
The relief and portrait sculpture of the period captured subtle, individual details that reached new heights of technical perfection.
From 1967 Jeff Beck brought lead guitar to new heights of technical virtuosity and moved blues rock in the direction of heavy rock with his band, The Jeff Beck Group.
"Supreme" was released around the time that Coltrane reached the height of his technical powers.
The boldly delineated decorative glass designed by Hoffmann, Prutscher and other Werkstätte members helped revive the Bohemian glassworks and spur its craftsmen to new technical heights.
Continuing his literary experimentation, Cela attained greater technical heights in La colmena (1951; The Hive), portraying divided Madrid society during the harsh winter of 1941 42.
Yet because man, no matter what intellectual and technical heights he may scale, remains embedded in nature, the balance has shifted against him, too, and the threat that he poses to the earth is a threat to him as well.
This "pulse height analyser" became a technical standard in the field and was known as "the Wilkinson", an expression still in use many decades after his invention.
At the height of eBay's technical problems on June 11, pages viewed per person on the site dropped 51%.
