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Gerónimo Giménez. Gerónimo Giménez y Bellido (10 October 1854 – 19 February 1923) was a Spanish conductor and composer, who dedicated his career to writing zarzuelas, such as La tempranica and La boda de Luis Alonso.
Short title: When Geronimo rode / Author: Hooker, Forrestine C. (Forrestine Cooper), 1867-1932: Software used: Internet Archive: Conversion program: Recoded by LuraDocument PDF v2.68
Jeronimo Bassano was an Italian musician in the Republic of Venice who is notable as the patriarch of a family of musicians: five of his sons, Anthony, Alvise, Jasper, John (Giovanni), and Baptista Bassano, moved from Venice to England to serve in the court of King Henry VIII.
A German theorist of a slightly later period, Franco of Cologne, was the first to describe a system of notation in which differently shaped notes have entirely different rhythmic values (in the Ars cantus mensurabilis, c. 1280), an innovation which had a massive impact on the subsequent history of European music. Most of the surviving notated ...
Musik im Bauch, for 6 percussionists and music boxes, Nr. 41 (1975) Momente, for soprano solo, 4 choirs, and 13 instrumentalists, Nr. 13 (1962–64/69) Oktophonie (1990/91) electronic music of Tuesday from Light; Plus-Minus, 2 x 7 pages for realization, Nr. 14 (1963) Pole, for 2 players or singers with 2 short-wave radios, Nr. 30 (1969–70)
A table-book printing from Henry Lawes' The treasury of musick: containing ayres and dialogues to sing to the theorbo-lute or basse-viol., 1669. A table-book is a manuscript or printed book which is arranged so that all the parts of a piece of music can be read from it while seated around a table. They were made in the 16th and 17th century for ...
A partbook is a format for printing or copying music in which each book contains the part for a single voice or instrument, especially popular during the Renaissance and Baroque. This format contrasts with the large choirbook , which included all of the voice parts and could be shared by an entire choir .
Some hymns in the Nahuatl language by a composer of the same name (Hernando don Franco) are now presumed to be the work of a native composer who took Franco's name, as was the custom, on his conversion to Christianity and baptism (if so, they may be the earliest extant notated music in the European tradition by a Native American composer).