Sentence examples for minor in the first from inspiring English sources

When Mozart placed a loud, dark, bone-chilling chord of D minor in the first bars of "Don Giovanni," he set a new precedent for operatic curtain-raisers: instead of charming his listeners into paying attention, he would stun them into submission, with intimations of the awakening of the dead and the opening of the gates of Hell.

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It contains considerable differences from the final libretto, relatively minor in the first two acts but much more appreciable in the third, where the description of the Roman dawn that opens the third act is much longer, and Cavaradossi's tragic aria, the eventual "E lucevan le stelle", has different words.

Neil, who fought Jason Strudwick at 14 38 of the first, accounted for 13 of Ottawa's 17 penalty minutes, including another elbowing minor in the third period for a hit on Petr Prucha.

And, second, Disseminating Indecent Material to Minors in the First Degree, Penal Law Section 235.22.

It reaches a dramatic climax in D minor, in which the first theme is presented, fluctuating between D minor and the home key, in a manner similar to the parallel passage from the previous sonata (see above).

Examples of Sullivan's rare excursions into minor keys include the long E minor melody in the first movement of the Irish Symphony, "Go away, madam" in the Act I finale of Iolanthe (echoing Verdi and Beethoven) and the funeral march in the Act I finale of The Yeomen of the Guard.

Both QTL analyses suggested the presence of a major QTL on rice chromosome 11, although no clear information concerning minor QTLs was proposed; there were no minor QTLs in the first analysis and one in the second.

Davis had been a minor factor in the first half, scoring 4 points.

Serena Williams v Sara Errani is round the corner, Victoria Azarenka having beaten Maria Sharapova 3-6, 6-4, 6-4 in a minor epic in the first semi-final.

The Times of London reported that 15 people suffered minor injuries in the first eight weeks after "Shibboleth" opened in October in the Turbine Hall, Tate Modern's vast signature space.