slide 1 of 4. The BMP blood test is actually a set of eight different tests that allow doctors to better understand a patient's health by providing lab values associated with the kidneys, acid/base balance, blood sugar, and levels of specific minerals in the body.est Components. The BMP blood test includes the levels of glucose and calcium in the blood; levels of the electrolytes sodium, potassium, chloride, and carbon dioxide, and BUN and creatinine levels, which indicate how the kidneys are functioning.
After two years at Berkeley, Cowell pursued further studies in New York where he encountered Leo Ornstein, the radically futurist composer-pianist. Still a teenager, Cowell wrote the piano piece Dynamic Motion (1916), his first important work to explore the possibilities of the tone cluster (listen (helpÂ·info)).
Philip Ball discovers a new algorithmic composer challenging our ideas of what music itself should be. When Peter Russell first heard the unusual music, he was pleasantly surprised. It was a âdelightful piece of chamber musicâ, he wrote, reminiscent of French pieces written in the early 20th Century.