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The English Madrigal Composers

Book by Edmund Horace Fellowes; The Clarendon Press, 1921

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Composers--England, Madrigals--History And Critism

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...as being legally entitled to armorial bearings. The composer died eleven years before the Visitation was made...this great musician, whom many regard as the greatest English composer of all time, lie buried in that churchyard. Our knowledge...
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A Guide to Piano Music by Women Composers - Vol. 1
Includes: Composers Born before 1900

Book by Pamela Youngdahl Dees; Greenwood Press, 2002

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Music By Women Composers--Bio-Bibliography, Piano Music--Bibliography

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...late-eighteenth century English composer. Her two extant...are Two Sonatas and Three English Airs with Variations for harp...Sonatas and Six Songs and Some English Airs with Variations, Op...singer, harpist, writer, and composer, was one of a small group of women opera composers in France during the Revolution...
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Ruth Crawford Seeger: A Composer's Search for American Music

Book by Judith Tick; Oxford University Press, 2000

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Composers--United States--Biography, Seeger, Ruth Crawford--1901-1953, Women Composers--United States--Biography

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...he sent her choral music by the English composer Gustav Holst, a devoted theosophist...after five days of trying to find an English translation of a Sanskrit text in...consonants and vowels, from German and English. Nasal dipthongs of
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Mainstream Music of Early Twentieth Century America: The Composers, Their Times, and Their Works

Book by Nicholas E. Tawa; Greenwood Press, 1992

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Composers--United States, Music--United States--20th Century--History And Criticism

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...with Edward Elgar, the noted English composer, and at greater length with Bernard...resented being called a businessman composer, insisting that when he gave his attention to music he was a composer and nothing else. 3 His teachers...
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Conductors on Composers

Book by John L. Holmes; Greenwood Press, 1993

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Composers, Conductors (Music)--Quotations, Music--History And Criticism

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...too respected, if not admired, Britten, calling him "the only English composer worthwhile who has emanated from one of our colleges of music...Wilfred Owen in translation is still one of the most popular English poets in many

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Journal Articles on: english composer

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Art Songs in English: 50 Songs by 21 American and British Composers

Journal article by Judith Carman; Journal of Singing, Vol. 65, 2008

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Art Songs in English: 50 Songs by 21 American and British Composers by Judith Carman NEW COLLECTIONS American ART SONGS IN ENGLISH: 50 Songs by 21 American...fortunate indeed. Some of the composers have been published previously...been available only in single composer collections or sheet music...
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A Pan-African Composer? Coleridge-Taylor and Africa

Journal article by Paul Richards; Black Music Research Journal, Vol. 21, 2001

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African music--Influence, Coleridge-Taylor, Samuel--Works, Composers--Works

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...the young black composers new cantata...empire. Another English composer was to achieve...quartet, which the composers daughter states...heard by the composer in performances...nonstandard forms of English. Straining to...subjugation by the English. (2.) A testimony...origin of the composer." (3.) Translation...readers." From a composers perspective...
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The Composer's Voice: "what Women Can Do"

Journal article by Brenda Dalen; Canadian University Music Review, Vol. 16, 1995

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Archer, Violet, Careers, Composers, Montreal Quebec Canada, Traditions, Women

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...think you would have become a composer had your parents stayed in...over there, especially for composers. To give an example, theres...is married to an Italian composer-but shes English originally-and whom I met...International Festival of Women Composers last year. The one whom...
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"Honor Your German Masters": the Use and Abuse of "classical" Composers in Nazi Propaganda

Journal article by David B. Dennis; Journal of Political and Military Sociology, Vol. 30, 2002

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Classical music, Composers, Germany-pre-1945, Nazi era, Propaganda

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...music policy to learn how specific composers and their compositions were incorporated...history of the reception given that composer by activists from 1870 to 1989...music history, musicology, and composers biographies in Weimar and then Nazi...this process was consistent: the composer was first demonstrated to have been...reported on specific uses to which a composers works were put in National Socialist pageantry. No German composer was immune to these procedures of...
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Composer Rhian Samuel: The Female Viewpoint and Welsh Influences in Her Vocal Music

Journal article by Joyce Andrews; Women & Music, Vol. 8, 2004

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Women composers--Criticism and interpretation

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...accomplished and active British composer, but she is also the musicologist...interested in promoting as many composers as possible, which reflects...of some nine hundred women composers in this pivotal reference...however, it is her work as a composer that places her squarely...spoke Welsh in the home and English at school. Although her...

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Magazine Articles on: english composer

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The Composer's Muse as Master

Magazine article by Mark Holston; Americas (English Edition), Vol. 45, May-June 1993

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Composers--Works, Latin Americans--Music, del Aguila, Miguel--Works

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The composers muse as master by Mark Holston "What...does not obey me!" When Uruguayan composer Miguel del Aguila sets out to create...the music of Latin Americas greatest composers. "I love the music of Astor Piazzolla...many people who are great classical composers who will be forgotten; but he will be remembered as a classical composer for a long time." In his own music...
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Catan: A Tribute to Spanish-Language Opera's Lyrical Voice April 3, 1949-April 9, 2011: With Lush Orchestrations and Melodic Lines, the Neoromantic Style of Mexican Composer Daniel Catan Forever Changed the Repetoire of Modern Opera

Magazine article by Janet Crane; Americas (English Edition), Vol. 63, July 2011

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Catan, Daniel--Appreciation, Catan, Daniel--Works, Composers--Appreciation, Composers--Works

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...the Neoromantic Style of Mexican Composer Daniel Catan Forever Changed the...Benjamin Britten had done for English. Britten composed operas from masterpieces of English literature and stories depicting English village life, and he served as...
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Composer of Spiritual Communions: Argentine-Born Composer Osvaldo Golijov Creates a Movable, Musical Feast, Spanning a Range of Styles and Themes Rooted in the Human Spirit

Magazine article by Caleb Bach; Americas (English Edition), Vol. 55, March 2003

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Composers--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Golijov, Osvaldo--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Music, Latin-American--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Spirituality--Influence

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...all, the works of Argentine-born composer Osvaldo Golijov have not suffered...are photographs of heroes, not just composers like Mahler and Stravinsky, but also...stamina. I cant think of another composer who asks that of a clarinet player...audience and critics and earned for its composer Lincoln Centers Stoeger Prize for...commissioned four very different composers (Tan Dun, Wolfgang Rihm, Sofia...
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Gerald Finzi: an English Composer

Magazine article by Denby Richards; Musical Opinion, Vol. 122, Winter 1999

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...Richards GERALD FINZI: An English Composer By Stephen...intensely concerned with a composer about whom I knew only...following his love for the English countryside to settle...appreciate that modern composers suffered from the all...puzzled remark that a composer called Finzi had been...compose such a very English work!. The first name...
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Ariel Ramirez: High Fidelity for Folk: A Passionate Exponent of Traditional Music, This Prolific Composer Has Brought the Rhythms of Argentina's Interior to World Audiences

Magazine article by Caleb Bach; Americas (English Edition), Vol. 55, September 2003

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Church music--International aspects, Music in churches--International aspects, Music, Latin-American--Social aspects

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...instruments, all under the direction of the composer. Also featured on the record was...the Argentine Society of Authors and Composers (SADAIC), a position he has held...overlooking the noisy street below that the composer himself kindly set aside some time...enthusiastic when, in October 1968, the composer presided over the first presentation...something in the style of the pampas, the composers unusual treatment of this ancient...

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Newspaper Articles on: english composer

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Auld Lang Tyne as English Claim Tune; Composer Said to Be a Geordie

Newspaper article; The Mirror (London, England), December 15, 1998

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Auld Lang Tyne as English Claim Tune; Composer Said to Be a Geordie. ONE of Scotlands most famous songs is half-English, according to a Geordie musician...dubbed Auld Lang Tyne in honour of composer William Shield. No-one has ever...
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The Lost Archive of Our Own Strauss; She Was Branded the English Strauss during Her Time, Brut the Life of Birmingham Composer Dorothy Howell Had Almost Been Forgotten, until Now. Matt Lloyd Reports

Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), August 26, 2010

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Strauss; She Was Branded the English Strauss during Her Time, Brut the Life of Birmingham Composer Dorothy Howell Had Almost...and being branded the "English Strauss" by the national...1920s, the Handsworth composer Dorothy Gertrude Howell...
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CLASSICAL: Albert Hall Performance of Choral Work by Long-Forgotten Composer; Terry Grimley Looks Forward to a Remembrance Day Concert of a Piece Not Performed for More Than 80 Years

Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), August 16, 2007

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Composers, Concerts

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...Choral Work by Long-Forgotten Composer; Terry Grimley Looks Forward...Foulds, the long-neglected English composer championed in recent years...was so spectacular that the composers widow, Maud MacCarthy, published...his reputation as a serious composer was undermined by the success...
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The Composer Who Lived Dangerously

Newspaper article; The Journal (Newcastle, England), April 28, 2009

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Composers

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The Composer Who Lived Dangerously. CHARLES Avison, the composer whose tercentenary is being...the 18th Centurys greatest English concerto composer, but he could so easily...songs and excerpts of the composers Occasional Oratorio which...
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Germany's Composer, Gertrude Stein's Friend

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, January 6, 2008

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Composers, Festivals, Malcolm, Janet

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Germanys Composer, Gertrude Steins Friend...better or worse," writes English biographer Jonathan Carr...Clan, the descendants of composer Richard Wagner "are Germanys...of Winifred Wagner, the English-born wife of the Masters...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: english composer

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Byrd, William , English Composer

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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BYRD, WILLIAM , English composer 1543 1623, English composer, organist at Lincoln Cathedral and, jointly with...Roman Catholic, he composed anthems and services for the English Church in addition to his great Roman masses and Latin motets...
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Ireland, John , English Composer

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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IRELAND, JOHN , English composer 1879 1962, English composer. Inspired by visits to the Channel Islands, he wrote music of a simple, rugged beauty. His many songs include the cycle Songs of a Wayfarer (1903) and Sea Fever (1913), to the...
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Opera

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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...generation of Venetian composers, headed by Marcantonio...opera. The reigning "English" composer was a German who had...Although best known as the composer of the oratorio Messiah...sometimes forcing composers to write around them...talent to produce an English musical theatrical...
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Purcell, Henry

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...HENRY pur s l, c.1659 1695, English composer and organist. Often considered...music to the genuine rhythms of English speech. His other notable stage...that is secular in tone for the English church service. Purcell invigorated...
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Handel, George Frideric

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...FRIDERIC han d l, 1685 1759, English composer, b. Halle, Germany...subsequent coronations. While composer to the duke of Chandos (1715...baroque and at the same time has English and Italian qualities of directness...charm. He strongly influenced English composers for a century after his death...

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