Sentence examples for parallel to the history of from inspiring English sources

He has also written an unproduced opera, "Boola," which tells the story of the American Negro, and a long symphonic work entitled "Black, Brown, and Beige," which he says is "a tone parallel to the history of the Negro".

It's a work that Ellington said was a "a tone parallel to the history of the Negro in America"; as such, its three movements make some of the richest and most radical music he wrote.

Everything was designed to set off "Black, Brown and Beige," a three-movement composition, some forty-five minutes long, that had been advertised as "Duke Ellington's first symphony" and that Ellington described as "a parallel to the history of the American Negro".

The history of film promotion runs in fascinating parallel to the history of film, not just reflecting the evolution of the new medium but urging it on and expanding its reach, especially by focusing on stars, something the earliest advertisements did not do.

In the field of science education, some empirical research has indicated that an individual's learning process of the concepts in science is parallel to the history of science (DiSessa 1982; McCloskey 1983; White 1983).

You describe their agriculture as parallel to the history of farming in humans.

In this, Slutkin sees a direct parallel to the early history of seemingly incurable infectious diseases.

Parallel to the 'official' history of great achievements in malaria elimination from the Canal Zone and control in the República de Panamá, there was a silent history of malaria transmission in Amerindian populations of the Panamá Isthmus.

Allard drew parallels to the long history of colonizers forcing indigenous people off of their lands.

Without giving away the plot of the book, there is a beautiful subplot that runs parallel to the main fictional story: the history of Alexander Graham Bell's invention of the telephone, and how it was motivated by Bell's love for his wife who couldn't speak.

If the rise turns out to be as rapid as the worst-case projections, it could lead to a catastrophe without parallel in the history of civilization.