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The words of the song are as follows: The Griffine, Bustard, Turkey & Capon Lett other hungry Mortalls gape on And on theire bones with Stomacks fall hard, But lett All Souls' Men have ye Mallard. CHORUS: Hough the bloud of King Edward, By ye bloud of King Edward, It was a swapping, swapping mallard! Some storys strange are told I trow
The Eagle and Child, nicknamed "the Bird and Baby", [1] is a pub in St Giles', Oxford, England, owned by the Ellison Institute of Technology [2] and previously operated by Mitchells & Butlers as a Nicholson's pub. [3] The pub had been part of an endowment belonging to University College since the 17th century.
Musicologists such as Matthew Head and Suzannah Clark believe that birdsong has had a large though admittedly unquantifiable influence on the development of music. [2] [3] Birdsong has influenced composers in several ways: they can be inspired by birdsong; [4] they can intentionally imitate bird song in a composition; [4] they can incorporate recordings of birds into their works; [5] or they ...
The word Don is used for fellows and tutors of a college or university, especially traditional collegiate universities such as Oxford and Cambridge in England. [7] Teachers at Radley, a boys-only boarding-only public school modelled after Oxford colleges of the early 19th century, are known to boys as "dons".
The only bird known to make use of infrasound (at about 20 Hz) is the western capercaillie. [48] The hearing range of birds is from below 50 Hz to around 12 kHz, with maximum sensitivity between 1 and 5 kHz. [22] [49] The black jacobin is exceptional in producing sounds at about 11.8 kHz. It is not known if they can hear these sounds. [50]
The choir was founded in 1960 by the British-Hungarian conductor László Heltay as the Collegium Musicum Oxoniense before adopting the name Schola Cantorum of Oxford in 1964. [2] The choir has been conducted by a long line of eminent conductors including Andrew Parrott , Nicholas Cleobury , Ivor Bolton , Jeremy Summerly and James Burton .
The Festival was founded in 2002 by the pianist Sholto Kynoch, [1] and in a short space of time grew to be the United Kingdom's largest art song festival. [2] Oxford Lieder is now a registered charity and in addition to the annual festival which takes place in October, [3] there are regular concerts and masterclasses throughout the year, and a growing programme of educational events.
William Archibald Spooner (22 July 1844 – 29 August 1930) was a British clergyman and long-serving Oxford don. He was most notable for his absent-mindedness, and for supposedly mixing up the syllables in a spoken phrase, with unintentionally comic effect. Such phrases became known as spoonerisms, and are often used humorously. Many ...