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)).
On the piano, the quintessential tonal instrument, the octave is divided into 12 equal semitones represented by the seven white and five black keys. But consider the zoomoozophone, invented in 1978 by Dean Drummond, a founder of New York's Newband. It which resembles a marimba but is 20 feet long and flexible, the octave is divided into 31 parts and thus is capable of producing many more subleties of pitch variation than the piano.