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This was Nicholas Lanier, [2] appointed by Charles I in 1626 as Master of the King's Musick (the spelling was changed to "Music" in the 20th century, during Sir Edward Elgar's tenure). [ 3 ] [ 4 ] At that time the holder of the post took charge of the monarch's private band, a responsibility which continued until the band was dissolved in 1901 ...
The UK has birthed many popular music genres such as beat music, psychedelic music, progressive rock/pop, heavy metal, new wave, and industrial music. In the 20th century, influences from the music of the United States, including blues, jazz, and rock and roll, were adopted in the United Kingdom.
There have been 13 British monarchs since the political union of the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland on 1 May 1707.England and Scotland had been in personal union since 24 March 1603; while the style, "King of Great Britain" first arose at that time, legislatively the title came into force in 1707.
This category is for 20th-century monarchs of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the United ... Pages in category "20th-century British monarchs"
This is a non-diffusing parent category of Category:20th-century Black British composers and Category:20th-century British women composers The contents of these subcategories can also be found within this category, or in diffusing subcategories of it.
A notable feature of the late 19th century and early 20th century was the birth of the English Pastoral School of classical music. This paralleled similar developments in most European countries, for instance in the music of Smetana, Dvořák, Grieg, Liszt, Wagner, Nielsen and Sibelius. [43]
The entire composition is the musical salute for the British monarch and royal ... In the early 20th century there existed a military band ... The first music ...
Music Hall, Britain's first form of commercial mass entertainment, emerged, broadly speaking, in the mid-19th century, and ended (arguably) after the First World War, when the halls rebranded their entertainment as Variety. [1]