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  Music in the Cathedral
Beautiful music is part of our Anglican tradition; a priceless heritage of sacred music has been bequeathed to us through hymns, chants, settings for the services, anthems, motets, introits and organ voluntaries.
With his arrival, the musical life of the Cathedral was immeasurably enhanced with the introductions of recitals, carol services, and at each service, preludes, postludes and voluntaries.
Music in the Cathedral continued as a vital part of worship, and was further enhanced with the addition of a moveable console in 1969 under the direction of Mr.
www.ottawa.anglican.ca /cathedral/music.htm   (1096 words)

  
 A Brief History of Singing
Musical experimentation then began, but not until recordings were made by Adelina Patti in 1904, was the machine established as a serious musical medium.
Music written after that time could no longer be performed for profit without the payment of a royalty to the composer.
Musically, they continued Verdi's course and wrote melodious scores in the continuous music format; the orchestra served an accompaniment function, while dramatic voices and high-note climaxes were featured.
www.lawrence.edu /fast/koopmajo/continuous.html   (3067 words)

  
 Enlightened and Romantic German music criticism, 1800-1850
Factors that helped consolidate music criticism in crucial ways--the concept of aesthetic autonomy, the idea of a public sphere, and a national ideology--all began emerging around 1800.
The foundational principle of the public sphere--that is, the conceptual space between the state and the private home which enables individuals to meet freely and discuss as equals matters of common interest--was not rejected by later critics.
Music criticism took on a new dimension in the 1840s, when Franz Brendel infused the Neue Zeitschrift fur Musik with the Young Hegelian goal of furthering knowledge through the critical process of constructing the grand historical narrative of spirit.
repository.upenn.edu /dissertations/AAI9532255   (357 words)

  
 Nutcracker Music
The music of the Nutcracker Ballet was composed by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky.
Born in the Ural mountains of Russia, he dedicated his life to music.
1850 to 1859, he attended the school of Jurisprudence and studied piano.
www.nutcrackerballet.net /html/nutcracker_music.html   (81 words)

  
 Musical Nirvana - Introduction to Indian Classical Music   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
After the trinity period (1750-1850) Carnatic music was dominated by disciples of the trinity.
Considering that most musicians treated their musical knowledge as too precious to be openly discussed this was a path breaking work.
Music recitals were a regular feature of the Mysore Court especially during festivals like Dasara and Sivaratri.
www.musicalnirvana.com /introduction/british_raj3.html   (1182 words)

  
 UVa Music Library: Resources & Finding Aids
California Gold: Northern California Folk Music from the Thirties (American Folklife Center, Library of Congress) is devoted to the WPA California Folk Music Project, one of the earliest ethnographic field projects to document European, Slavic, Middle Eastern, and English- and Spanish-language folk music in a single region of the United States.
I Hear America Singing (Music Division of the Library of Congress) brings together thousands of materials digitized from the Library's vast collections of sheet music, sound recordings, moving images, manuscripts, photographs, and oral histories, along with essays by Library staff and leading researchers in the performing arts.
Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music 1870-1885 (American Memory Project, Library of Congress) consists of over 47,000 pieces of sheet music registered for copyright during that period, all searchable by keyword.
www.lib.virginia.edu /MusicLib/resources/virtual.html   (2133 words)

  
 1850   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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January 29 - Henry Clay introduces the Compromise of 1850 to the United States Congress
March 7 - United States Senator Daniel Webster gives his "Seventh of March" speech in which he endorses the Compromise of 1850 in order to prevent a possible civil war.
www.bidprobe.com /en/wikipedia/1/18/1850.html   (391 words)

  
 Internet Public Library: Music   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Post-Civil War music reflects the problems of Reconstruction and the beginnings of urbanization and the northern migration of African Americans.
Unlike many other sorts of published works, sheet music can be produced rapidly in response to an event or public interest, and thus is a source of relatively unmediated and unrevised perspectives on quickly changing events and public attitudes.
"Also included is a timeline showing musical events in their historical context, an explanation of musical forms and structures, and a complete guide to the instruments of the orchestra." A glossary of related terms is also included.
www.ipl.org /div/subject/browse/hum20.60.00   (1394 words)

  
 BH - Music - 2001   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Probably this was music performed by the women in the family, and, including as it does the music of unknown as well as famous composers, it presumably gives a representative overview of the "Hausmusik" (music played at home) of the time.
Popular music receives a brief treatment that manages to mention what is historically most significant, though it deals primarily with big band and salon music, film music, and hit songs.
Substantial articles on her may be found in all of the standard music reference works, e.g., in the supplement to Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart, the New Grove, the Dizionario enciclopedico universale della musica e dei musicisti, and the Riemann-Musiklexikon.
www.rre.casalini.com /2001/bh.html   (4901 words)

  
 Mitch Ross - Life, Music and Composition   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Classical music is generalized as music written between about 1800 and 1850.
Music before that (more or less) was Baroque, and after Romantic.
All of the music we are talking about is a higher art form than common or popular music.
users.vianet.ca /~mross99/recipes.html   (175 words)

  
 Music
Formerly known as the Sonneck Society in honor of Oscar Sonneck (1873-1928), pioneering scholar and bibliographer of American music and head of the Music Division of the Library of Congress from 1902 to 1917.
Explores the full breadth of Puerto Rican music, with descriptions of native music genres including danza, folk music, plena, bomba, and salsa, as well as related genres such as the Cuban son, merengue, bolero, and jazz.
There are descriptions and photos of native musical instruments and an extensive collection of artist biographies (mostly Puerto Ricans) from all genres, each with a discography, photo, and sample audio clips of their music.
www.library.ucsb.edu /subjects/music/music.html   (5510 words)

  
 Music Section   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The musical parts of the collection may be divided into seven main categories: English secular song (including folk songs and ballads) from 1650; English opera (including libretti); French songs from 1700; French opera libretti c.1680-1800; French opera full scores c.1680-1820; French, German and Italian opera vocal scores c.1800-1950; American songs from c.1800.
The music manuscripts and 17th- to early 19th-century music editions formerly in the Music Faculty Library were transferred to the Bodleian between 1995 and 1998.
The Music Section maintains a collection of posters and programmes of local concerts from the Holywell Music Room concerts of the 18th century to the present day.
www.bodley.ox.ac.uk /dept/scwmss/wmss/notes.html   (447 words)

  
 By Subject - Music - Musical Scores   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Not to be confused with sheet music, song sheets are single printed sheets, usually six by eight inches, with lyrics but no music.
An image of the cover and each page of music will also be retrieved if the music was published before 1923 and is in the public domain.
Over 22,000 pieces of sheet music registered for copyright during the post-Civil War era; included are popular songs, piano music, sacred music and secular choral music, solo instrumental music, method books and instructional materials, and music for band and orchestra.
www.lib.washington.edu /subject/Music/dr/elsco.html   (1549 words)

  
 Royal College of Music. The Music Collection of the Royal College of Music, London.
The Royal College of Music was founded in 1882 and since that date has established itself as one of the foremost music schools in the world.
They consist of English music and manuscripts associated with England from the Tudor to the Georgian periods.
The selection of continental manuscripts contains music from the 18th century, which is rich in Italian music, both sacred and secular.
www.library.utoronto.ca /robarts/microtext/collection/pages/royalcom.html   (399 words)

  
 Music Library of Sweden. Rare Collections
The Library's Rare Collections include extensive holdings of 16-19th-century printed and manuscript music, books and periodicals; letters of composers and musicians; personal archives and special collections (primarily autographs by many Swedish composers); and (on deposit) the 18-19th-century music collection of the Stockholm Royal Opera and the archives of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music, 1771-1971.
Sacred and secular European vocal music, from the repertoire of the church and its associated school in the 16th and 17th centuries.
An extensive collection mainly of 18th-century instrumental music in print and manucript: the repertoire of a Stockholm literary and musical society that was a precursor of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music.
www.muslib.se /hand/rare.html   (1346 words)

  
 Music 37200 | Bibliography
This is a working bibliography for Music 37200, Larry Zbikowski's course in the history of music theory, Winter term 2005.
Caplin, William F. “Theories of musical rhythm in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries,” in CHWMT, pp.
Music in the French Royal Academy of Sciences: A Study in the Evolution of Musical Thought.
humanities.uchicago.edu /classes/zbikowski/372_bib.html   (2064 words)

  
 Ubcpress.ca :: University of British Columbia Press
Music hall was the most dynamic and successful popular theatre genre of the nineteenth century.
While London dominated the wider British music hall, Glasgow, the Second City of the Empire, was the centre of a vigorous Scottish performing culture, one developed in a Presbyterian society with a very different experience of industrial urbanisation.
The book explores all aspects of the Scottish music hall industry, from the lives and professional culture of performers and impresarios to the place of music hall in Scottish life.
www.ubcpress.ubc.ca /search/title_book.asp?BookID=4133   (357 words)

  
 Borowitz Sheet Music Collection   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
This collection of nearly 7000 pieces of sheet music was donated by Albert and Helen Borowitz.
Popular music from the inclusive dates as well as early musical productions of the nineteenth century and musical productions from most of the twentieth century are included.
The music is further separated by size--large format and modern (smaller) format.
speccoll.library.kent.edu /music/sheetmusic   (247 words)

  
 The Music Room
Subdues the rage of poison and of plague."
Simple in her tastes, and true to the moral instincts of her woman's nature, she keeps her beautiful soul open to the influence that enkindle hope and strengthen genius.
While her nature moves thus in harmony with the music of her voice, she must - she will draw the hearts of the people to love and honor her more and more.
www.victoriaspast.com /TheMusicRoom/MusicHome.html   (474 words)

  
 Groep 1850
In 1974, Groep 1850 performed under the name of Orange Upstairs ("Oranje boven") and released an album in the following line-up: Peter Sjardin (v, o), Martin van Duynhoven (d), Dave Duba (g), Hans Dulfer (sax) and Ed Neumeister (b).
Groep 1850 was formed in The Hague, in November 1964, by Peter Sjardin.
Their music of that period is best described as avant-garde rock with psychedelic influences, and a comparison with The Mothers of Invention would definitely be in order.
www.alexgitlin.com /groep.html   (996 words)

  
 Romantic Music (1850-1900)
Romantic music is not just about the emotion of love, it can also be about hate or death (positive or negative feelings).
It is music specially composed to be heard at certain points during the performance of a play.
By the middle of the 19th Century, music was dominated by Germany.
www.rpfuller.com /gcse/music/romantic.html   (958 words)

  
 Music
Historic American Sheet Music This collection presents 3,042 pieces of sheet music drawn from the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library at Duke University, which holds an important, representative, and comprehensive collection of nineteenth and early twentieth century American sheet music.
Historic American Sheet Music Timeline: 1850-1920 Features a selection of representative pieces for each decade between 1850 and 1920.
Lester S. Levy Sheet Music Collection This collection is part of Special Collections at the Milton S. Eisenhower Library of The Johns Hopkins University.
library.schreiner.edu /webres/libxmusic.htm   (367 words)

  
 Music - Songs, Sheet music & Lyrics
The WPA California Folk Music Project is a multi-format ethnographic field collection that includes sound recordings, still photographs, drawings, and written documents from a variety of European ethnic and English- and Spanish-speaking communities in Northern California.
The Historic American Sheet Music Project from Duke University provides access to digital images of 3042 pieces from the collection, published in the United States between 1850 and 1920.
The Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music consists of over 30,000 sheets of American music, and provides a unique window on the social life of America.
www.lib.csufresno.edu /subjectresources/music/songsandlyrics.html   (488 words)

  
 MUSIC 133
Focusing on the decades between the 1880's and the 1950's, this course examines social, musical and commercial forces behind the emergence and decline of Tin Pan Alley as well as changes in the substance, treatment, and significance of its songs during their years of popularity.
A Century of Musicals in Black and White.
New York : Institute for Studies in American Music, Conservatory of Music, Brooklyn College of the City University of New York, c1992.
www.brown.edu /Facilities/University_Library/courses/mu133   (1120 words)

  
 Music Section   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The music collections of the Bodleian Library comprise about 500,000 items of printed music, 60,000 books and periodicals, 3,500 music manuscripts, and 1000 microfilms, making it the second largest music research library in Great Britain.
Its holdings of sound recordings, however, are very small, being largely confined to discs and tapes which have come to the library as part of or appendices to printed books, periodicals or musical editions.
As a copyright library the Bodleian receives British publications of printed music under legal deposit in the same way as it does books, but the provisions of the Copyright Act do not extend to sound recordings.
www.bodley.ox.ac.uk /dept/scwmss/wmss/music.html   (172 words)

  
 Historic American Sheet Music, 1850-1920 (American Memory, Library of Congress)
spirituals, dance music, songs from vaudeville and musicals, "Tin pan alley" songs, and songs from World War I. The collection is particularly strong in antebellum Southern music, Confederate imprints, and
Also included are piano music of marches, variations, opera excerpts, and dance music, including waltzes, quadrilles,
The digital reproductions of the sheet music are also mounted at the awardee institution.
memory.loc.gov /ammem/award97/ncdhtml/hasmhome.html   (379 words)

  
 Alice Gomez Sources at Silverwave.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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 Kohler and Chase Music Store - 1850
Yet there was one extraordinary man in all this medley of struggling, passionate humanity, who fixed his whole attention on violins, guitars, pianos and organs.
He had the foresight to bring with him a miscellaneous collection of musical instruments when he embarked for the new El Dorado in the year 1849.
A few months after Andrew Kohler opened the first music store in San Francisco, he was doing so well that he moved his establishment to Stockton Street, between Pacific and Jackson, which was the direction in which the young town was expanding.
www.sfmuseum.org /hist/kandc.html   (504 words)

  
 African American Sheet Music, 1850-1920
The average length of each piece of sheet music is five or six pages, and the site does a remarkable job of clearly reproducing cover images, lyrics, and music for easy navigation and printing.
The music spans the era from antebellum flface minstrelsy through the Civil War and into the early twentieth century.
Undoubtedly, one of the most exciting aspects of the collection is that it makes the work of these artists widely available—artists who were representative of a generation of African American composers and performers who spearheaded fl musical comedy at the turn of the century.
historymatters.gmu.edu /d/4184   (514 words)

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