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The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell. London: Macmillan. Scholes, Percy, Judith Nagley, and Arnold Whittall. "Canon". The Oxford Companion to Music, edited by Alison Latham. Oxford Music Online. Oxford University Press (accessed 13 December 2014) (subscription required).
A minor canon is a member of staff on the establishment of a cathedral or a collegiate church. In at least one foundation the post may be known as "priest-vicar". [1] Minor canons are clergy and take part in the daily services but are not part of the formal chapter. [2]
His father Thomas Tomkins, a vicar choral at St David's Cathedral, became a minor canon at Gloucester Cathedral by 1594, and it is thought that John was a chorister there. In 1606 John Tomkins succeeded Orlando Gibbons as organist of King's College, Cambridge. After studying music there for ten years, he received the degree of Mus. Bac. in June ...
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The Bate Collection of Musical Instruments is a collection of historic musical instruments, mainly for Western classical music, from the Middle Ages onwards. It is housed in Oxford University's Faculty of Music near Christ Church on St. Aldate's. The collection is open to the public and is available for academic study by appointment.
Joseph Haydn completed his Symphony No. 92 in G major, Hoboken I/92, popularly known as the Oxford Symphony, in 1789 as one of a set of three symphonies commissioned by the French Count d'Ogny. [1] Instrumentation for the symphony is: flute , 2 oboes , 2 bassoons , 2 horns , 2 trumpets , timpani , and strings .
Major/minor compositions are musical compositions that begin in a major key and end in a minor key (generally the parallel minor), specifying the keynote (as C major/minor). This is a very unusual form in tonal music, [ 1 ] [ 2 ] although examples became more common in the nineteenth century. [ 3 ]