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A variety of pea called Gradus is very excellent in flavour.
The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming. Ellen Eddy Shaw
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Without a single helping hand to guide him, he had mastered the formidable difficulties of his 'Gradus'; and lighted only by his inborn genius, he had deliberately chosen the path which he felt to be that which would conduct him to the highest levels of his art.
Story-Lives of Great Musicians Francis Jameson Rowbotham
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He had mastered the difficulties of the "Gradus," one of the books purchased years before, and without any outside help had worked out his musical independence, uninfluenced by any other musician.
The World's Great Men of Music Story-Lives of Master Musicians Harriette Brower 1898
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Great part of 'The Siege' is in (I think) what the learned call Anapests, (though I am not sure, being heinously forgetful of my metres and my 'Gradus',) and many of the lines intentionally longer or shorter than its rhyming companion; and rhyme also occurring at greater or less intervals of caprice or convenience.
Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 3 (of 6) With His Letters and Journals Thomas Moore 1815
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In a description of Johannes Tinctoris's musical glossary, composed in 1475, Alfred Mann emphasizes that "when [Tinctoris] speaks of measurement from point to point, he quite obviously has in mind an analogy with mathematical concepts, and his formulation suggests indeed the imagination and draftsmanship of the masters of optical perspective" (Mann, introduction to Johann Joseph Fux's Gradus ad Parnassum, viii).
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008
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Clementi/Tausig: Gradus ad Parnassum, ed. Gustav Damm (Steingräber-Verlag, n.d.).
Deep covers Matthew Guerrieri 2008
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Clementi/Tausig: Gradus ad Parnassum, ed. Gustav Damm (Steingräber-Verlag, n.d.).
Archive 2008-01-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2008
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One of the foremost Bach and Handel scholars of his era, Dr. Mann prepared modern English and German language editions of the J.J. Fux counterpoint treatise Gradus ad Parnassum which remain the standards throughout the world.
Edith Weiss-Mann. 2009
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Gradus and Job Wouters write the alphabet « Drawn!
Gradus and Job Wouters write the alphabet « Drawn! The Illustration and Cartooning Blog 2008
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This cute and impressive film of Gradus and Job Wouters drawing the alphabet is spotlighted on youtube today.
Gradus and Job Wouters write the alphabet « Drawn! The Illustration and Cartooning Blog 2008
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