| Unsurprisingly, four fifths of the trainees surveyed said they thought that eponyms should be abandoned as a way of describing fractures. |
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| Parker's setting are starker, more monumental, more dependent on modes, open fifths, and contrapuntal imitation. |
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| Some basics of music theory also are explained including scales, key signatures, chords, intervals, transposition and the circle of fifths. |
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| Further along it requires the reader to understand the cycle of fifths and key relationships such as the mediant. |
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| Birth weight for gestational age, divided into fifths, showed an association with later marital status for men but not women. |
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| We divided participants into fifths according to their intake of each type of fat. |
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| Imagine if Social Security reform brings the proportion of Americans holding financial assets from half to three quarters or four fifths. |
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| Teaching in a third of lessons was graded unsatisfactory or poor, while learning in two fifths of lessons was below standard. |
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| There was plenty of jaunty energy in the folkish Intermezzo, enriched by bare fourths and fifths. |
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| Scott and Dankworth were blown away by the melodic lines of modern jazz and its soulful use of chord substitutions, ninths and flattened fifths. |
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| Markert says that, while Jimi Hendrix's Purple Haze personified 1960s acid rock, four fifths of the songs that explicitly mention LSD are post 1980 and overwhelmingly hostile. |
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| In tempering the piano, we narrow the fifths and widen the fourths. |
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| Outside of the first beats, intervals of fifths, fourths, thirds, and even seconds are allowed. |
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| The harmonies he wrote for saxophone and trumpet, often fourths and fifths, made the quintet sound much larger than most bebop quintets. |
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| Onstage, Harvey reduces the chords to curt, ugly fifths, choppily strummed with downstrokes. |
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| Open fifths, fourths and tritones, modality and whole-tone scales abound. |
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| Three fifths of the House of Councillors shall be constituted by members elected by an electoral college in each of the regions of the Kingdom. |
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| That means that four fifths of the world's farmers, or around one billion peasants, work only with manual tools: machete, spade, hoe, scythe? |
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| The strings of a four-string cello are usually tuned in fifths, but scordatura tunings were used in the baroque era, and so tuning in fifths cannot be taken for granted. |
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| We'll divide the group into fifths, according to annual expenses. |
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| To either system the use of the chromatic notes adds more true fifths but also more untrue thirds and sixths. |
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| Around four fifths of oceanic debris is from rubbish blown onto the water from landfills, and urban runoff. |
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| Its territory occupies almost four fifths of the Arabian peninsula. |
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| Part 1 and Part 2 each have three-note root position chords, Part 3 plays open fifths throughout the piece. |
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| With a third and two fifths in the shortened fleet race regatta, the Spanish showed massive improvement over their fleet racing in Valencia, finishing tied on points for fourth, falling to fifth on the tie-break. |
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| In polyphonic settings the old technique of 13th century descant with parallel fifths and octaves and counter-movements was consciously reverted to. |
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| A human rights defender shall be elected for a term of six years by the National Assembly, by a majority of not less than three fifths of the total number of deputies. |
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| Like a lute, a gamba's neck is fretted, and it has six or seven strings tuned in fourths around a central third, rather than the fifths of a cello. |
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| If the Assembly maintains its vote by less than three fifths of its full membership, the President may, within the next 48 hours, retain the censured minister or ministers by express decision, and dissolve the Chambers. |
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| The third weaves a tight fabric of interlocking fifths, accompanied by tiny irregular bursts of two and three notes, which turns into a nearly regular drone as the first majestic explosion soars skyward. |
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| While it is true that the pentatonic scale is made up of any five successive pitches in the circle of fifths, this is quite an analytical leap. |
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| Intervals of all sizes abound with stacked fourths, fifths and diminished fifths being some favorites of the composer. |
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| Although undernutrition occurs widely, four fifths of all undernourished children live in just 20 countries, with the largest number of these children living in South Asia. |
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| With respect to the Prime Minister, not less than two fifths of all members of the House, and not less than one fifth with regard to an individual minister, have the right of moving a vote of no confidence. |
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| In the case of almost all organisations, four fifths of the people at the top are at present men and four fifths or more in the lowest positions are women. |
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| This contingency margin would be mobilised by a qualified majority vote of the Council and the support of a majority of the European Parliament's members and three fifths of the votes cast. |
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| A qualified majority shall be defined as the majority of the votes of the representatives of the Member States which are part of the euro area, representing at least three fifths of their population. |
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| Home to three fifths of the world's population, Asia is also home to some of the world's worst dictatorships which are rallying together to silence all voices of dissent. |
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| Harmonies range from the common triad to parallel fourths and fifths and dissonant harmonic progressions. |
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| The videos are pedagogically sound as Topham continually relates the harmony of each pop song to the circle of fifths. |
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| Chords are tuned carefully between players so unisons match and perfect fifths ring. |
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| The composition modulates upwards through the cycle of fifths, eventually returning to the original key. |
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| The Mexican trouble is about one fifth genuine complication and four fifths journalistic jimjam. |
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| In 2011 two fifths of the world's total production of refrigerators were based on Greenfreeze technology, with over 600 million units in use. |
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| In 1827 about two fifths of all English glass was made in the Tyneside area and in 1845 South Shields was making more plate glass than anywhere else in England. |
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| An ostinato of repeating melodic fifths represents the spinning wheel. |
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| Instead, it is the consonant intervals which are stressed, such as perfect fourths and fifths, and even more commonly, parallel thirds and sixths. |
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| Lancashire lost 709 square miles of land to other counties, about two fifths of its original area, although it did gain some land from the West Riding of Yorkshire. |
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| The Act of First Fruits and Fifths, the Test Act, the Act of Uniformity 1662, and others engaged the leading divines of the day. |
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