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	HOASM: John Bull
		John Bull, the possessor of the most British-sounding name of all our composers (though he was not the prototype of the legendary figure), was born about 1562.
		Bull died in Antwerp in March, 1628 and on the 15th of the month was buried in the cemetary south of the Cathedral.
		Bull was the supreme virtuoso among the English virginalists and he had a profound effect not only on the composers of this country but on the development of music on the continent of Europe.
	www.hoasm.org /IVM/Bull.html (1003 words)

	JOHN BULL, Biography, Discography
		Bull was one of the most knowledgeable theoreticians of his day, but his influence on the continent is hard to gauge.
		There is speculation that Bull intended some of his organ music to be performed on equally tempered instruments, and indeed its wild modulations would seem to demand either these or a keyboard with more than twelve notes to an octave.
		Bull also left a substantial number of complex canons, notated in open score; these are among the most complicated examples in the genre, including those of J. Bach.
	www.goldbergweb.com /en/history/composers/10375.php (337 words)

	John Bull - LoveToKnow 1911
		Contemporary writers speak in the highest terms of Bull's skill as a performer on the organ and the virginals, and there is no doubt that he contributed much to the development of harpsichord music.
		Jan Swielinck (1562-1621), the great organist of Amsterdam, did not regard his work on composition as complete without placing in it a canon by John Bull, and the latter wrote a fantasia upon a fugue of Swielinck.
		For the ascription to Bull of the composition of the British national anthem, see National Anthems.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /John_Bull (470 words)

	John Bull, personification of England and symbol of the English and Englishness
		John Bull is an imaginary figure who is a personification of England, similar to the American 'Uncle Sam'.
		Bull is usually pictured as a stout man in a tailcoat with breeches and a Union Flag waistcoat, dressed in the fashion of the Regency period.
		John Bull's surname is reminiscent of the alleged fondness of the English for beef, reflected in the French nickname for English people les rosbifs (the "Roast Beefs").
	www.historic-uk.com /CultureUK/JohnBull.htm (548 words)

	Dr. John Bull - Biography - AOL Music
		This English composer, organist, virginalist, organ builder, and keyboard virtuoso was a student of William Blitheman.
		Bull was most famous for the extent of his keyboard production which was also far above the technical capabilities of most of his contemporaries.
		Bull made the English style, particularly soprano parts of canons written over the parts of the choir (the descant style), his own.
	music.aol.com /artist/dr-john-bull/43718/biography (319 words)

	Anthony Trollope's Short Stories: Commentaries, Literary Analysis, Reader Response Criticism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		I hope John Arbuthnot is the source for the name John Bull (as the other correspondents have told you) because I have written the entry for "John Bull" in the forthcoming (always forthcoming and not yet arriving) Hanoverian Encyclopedia.
		Bull was a familiar figure in political cartoons especially in the second half of the century.
		John Bull, to all appearance, is a plain matter-of-fact fellow, with much less poetry about him than rich prose.
	www.jimandellen.org /trollope/johnbull.html (1226 words)

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