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The Elements" is a 1959 song with lyrics by musical humorist, mathematician and lecturer Tom Lehrer, which recites the names of all the chemical elements known at the time of writing, up to number 102, nobelium. Lehrer arranged the music of the song from the tune of the "Major-General's Song" from The Pirates of Penzance by Gilbert and Sullivan ...
In 1897-1898 the Master of the Queen's Music Sir Walter Parratt proposed a volume of choral songs modelled on The Triumphs of Oriana (1601) as part of the planned 80th birthday celebrations. He recruited 13 British composers, and in 1899 a limited edition of only 100 copies was produced entitled Choral Songs in honour of Her Majesty Queen ...
Chorus [5]. The pattern of a strophe (verse) sung in English followed by a burden (chorus) in Latin followed a structure typical of the religious carols of the period. [6]The Agincourt Carol was recorded by The Young Tradition on Galleries, [7] (with both the Early Music Consort and Dave Swarbrick contributing), and by the Silly Sisters (band) (Maddy Prior and June Tabor) on their second album ...
Three compositions for Horn; Music for five for Horn and four percussions; Lyric Fragment for Mezzo-soprano, Horn and Piano; Sonata No. 1 for Horn and Piano; Lyrics for Horn and Piano; Sonata No. 2 for Horn and Piano; Werner Pirchner. Born for Horn, for four horns, PWV 36 [3] Wolfgang Plagge. Sonata No. 1 for Horn and Piano, Op. 8; Sonata No. 2 ...
Diagram of a typical period consisting of two phrases [5] [6] [7]. In Western art music or Classical music, a period is a group of phrases consisting usually of at least one antecedent phrase and one consequent phrase totaling about 8 bars in length (though this varies depending on meter and tempo).
Alfred Hitchcock had heard the music in the 1927 film Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans. In 1955, when choosing the theme music for his television series Alfred Hitchcock Presents, he remembered the effect that "Funeral March of a Marionette" had on him. It was through Hitchcock's program that the music achieved its widest audience, although few ...
cross-indexing of choral music using criteria including musical genre, period, and number and voicing of choral parts; composer information; description and performance considerations can be included for works; contents of collections of choral music; community discussion such as through "Talk" pages related to composers or specific works.
The funeral of Queen Mary II (30 April 1662 – 28 December 1694) in Westminster Abbey was not until 5 March 1695. Purcell composed a setting of the sixth of the seven sentences of the Anglican Burial Service ("Thou Knowest Lord", Z. 58C) for the occasion, together with the March and Canzona, Z. 780. [1]