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Brewer's: Sing my Music, and not Yours
said Guglielmi to those who introduced their own ornaments into his operas, so eminently distinguished for their simplicity and purity. (1727-1804.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and…Brewer's: Musical Small-coal Man
(The). Thomas Britton (1654-1714). Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894MusiciansMusical Notation A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V…musicology
(Encyclopedia) musicology, systematized study of music and musical style, particularly in the realm of historical research. The scholarly study of music of different historical periods was not…Marriner, Sir Neville
(Encyclopedia) Marriner, Sir Neville, 1924–2016, British conductor, b. Lincoln, England, grad. Royal College of Music, London (1946), studied Paris Conservatory. A violinist, he taught at the Royal…Boyce, William
(Encyclopedia) Boyce, William, c.1710–1779, English composer. After studying in London, he became a composer (1736) and later an organist (1758) of the Chapel Royal and Master of the King's Music in…Fétis, François Joseph
(Encyclopedia) Fétis, François JosephFétis, François JosephfräNswäˈ zhôzĕfˈ fātēsˈ [key], 1784–1871, Belgian music theorist, historian, and composer. A teacher and librarian at the Paris Conservatory…Samaroff, Olga
(Encyclopedia) Samaroff, OlgaSamaroff, Olgasəmäˈrôf [key], 1882–1948, American pianist and educator, whose real name was Hickenlooper, b. San Antonio, Tex.; studied at the Paris Conservatory. Her…reggae
(Encyclopedia) reggae, Jamaican popular music that developed in the 1960s among Kingston's poor blacks, drawing on American “soul” music and traditional African and Jamaican folk music and ska (a…Gilman, Lawrence
(Encyclopedia) Gilman, Lawrence, 1878–1939, American music critic and author, b. Flushing, N.Y. He was music critic for Harper's Weekly (1901–13) and the North American Review (1913–23), and in 1923…Ligeti, György
(Encyclopedia) Ligeti, György, 1923–2006, Hungarian composer. He studied music in Romania and Hungary, and was a teacher at the Budapest Academy of Music until he fled to Vienna (1956) after the…Trending
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