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Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872–1958), English composer and song collector; Sam Larner (1878–1965), English folk singer; Percy Grainger (1882–1961), Australian composer who collected and recorded English folk songs; Harry Cox (1885–1971), English folk singer; Lewis 'Scan' Tester (1886–1972), English folk musician
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1500: November 3, Benvenuto Cellini, cornettist and recorder player, best known as a goldsmith and sculptor (died February 13, 1571) probable. Arnold von Bruck, Franco-Flemish composer (died 1554) [13] Cristóbal de Morales, Spanish composer (died 1553) [14] 1502: July 27 – Francesco Corteccia, Italian composer (died 1571) c. 1505
In the strictest sense, English folk music has existed since the arrival of the Anglo-Saxon people in Britain after 400 AD. The Venerable Bede's story of the cattleman and later ecclesiastical musician Cædmon indicates that in the early medieval period it was normal at feasts to pass around the harp and sing 'vain and idle songs'. [1]
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It is also the first work to identify its songs as "new", meaning composed in the colonies. Twenty-eight of the songs include both music and text, and are the first such printings in the country. [46] Barzillai Lew, a free-born African American musician from Massachusetts, becomes an Army fifer and drummer during the French and Indian War.
Collection of original Scotch-tunes, (full of the highland humours) for the violin by Henry Playford, 1770. Volume 2 of The ever green: being a collection of Scots poems, wrote by the ingenious before 1600 by Allan Ramsay, 1724. Volumes 1 and 2 of Orpheus Caledonius, or, A collection of Scots song by William Thomson, 1733.
The song schools of the abbeys, cathedrals and collegiate churches were closed down, choirs disbanded, music books and manuscripts destroyed and organs removed from churches. [12] The Lutheranism that influenced the early Scottish Reformation attempted to accommodate Catholic musical traditions into worship, drawing on Latin hymns and ...