The best kept secret of American history is that the favorite language of that founding generation came from the Torah.
Dr. Wang is a Stanford professor at the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA), the chief architect of the ChucK programming language, the founding director of the Stanford Laptop Orchestra (SLOrk) and the Stanford Mobile Phone Orchestra (MoPhO).
Beyond determining the language into which the founding texts of the movement were translated, however, the religion of the conquerors played no significant role in the development of the subject.
It signified a radical style of composition which aimed at redressing the swooning clichés of late romanticism, first with atonality, then with the rigorous new language of the 12-tone system, founded not on traditional harmony but abstract arrangements of pitches.
This is Greece, formerly known as Ancient Greece, the country in whose language the founding documents of the modern world were written.
"In the English language, he is the founding father of modern African literature," says K. Anthony Appiah, a Harvard University philosophy professor who grew up in Ghana.
It is difficult to explain how Cather conjured one of the supreme English-language novels from scattered stories of the founding of the Archdiocese of Santa Fe.
Within the decade, Beckett was established as the most innovative, radical and important English-language playwright of the century, one of the founding fathers of the theatre of the absurd.
"That was not the intent of the founding fathers or the language of the amendment," Mr. Pratt said.
The language of The Book with Seven Seals is founded upon the language of Wagner: the swinging, bell-like melodies that begin and end the work could have come straight out of The Mastersingers; the numinous aura that surrounds Christ's words is translated from Parsifal, the narrations of St John himself constitute a tenor role as demanding and expressive as almost anything in The Ring.
