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American English has always shown a marked tendency to use nouns as verbs. [13] Examples of verbed nouns are interview, advocate, vacuum, lobby, pressure, rear-end, transition, feature, profile, spearhead, skyrocket, showcase, service (as a car), corner, torch, exit (as in "exit the lobby"), factor (in mathematics), gun ("shoot"), author (which disappeared in English around 1630 and was ...
It was not until the 1890s that Native American music began to enter the American establishment. At the time, the first pan-tribal cultural elements, such as powwows, were being established, and composers like Edward MacDowell and Henry Franklin Belknap Gilbert used Native themes in their compositions.
[not verified in body] [4] [page range too broad] English borrowed many words from Old Norse, the North Germanic language of the Vikings, [5] and later from Norman French, the Romance language of the Normans, which descends from Latin. Estimates of native words derived from Old English range up to 33%, [6] with the rest made up of outside ...
Pages in category "Musical groups established in the 17th century" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Australian Haydn Ensemble (Skye McIntosh): 18th century period orchestra; Australian Romantic & Classical Orchestra (Rachael Beesley and Nicole Van Bruggen): 18th-20th century period orchestra; Bach Akademie Australia (Madeleine Easton) Sydney-based historically-informed baroque ensemble, specialising in the music of J. S. Bach and contemporaries.
Giasone was the most popular opera of the 17th century. [7] 1651 La Calisto (Cavalli). Ninth of the eleven operas that Cavalli wrote with Faustini is noted for its satire of the deities of classical mythology. [8] 1683 Dido and Aeneas (Henry Purcell). Often considered to be the first genuine English-language operatic masterwork.
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Late in the century composers such as Isidore de Lara, Delius and Dame Ethel Smyth, owing to the difficulties of getting serious English operas staged at home, caused in part by the popularity of light opera, turned to the Continent to seek their fortune, with De Lara becoming very popular in France and in Italy (his opera Messaline being the ...