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John the Lydian, On powers, or, The magistracies of the Roman state / Ioannes Lydus; introduction, critical text, translation, commentary, and indices by Anastasius C. Bandy. Series: Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society, v. 149 ISSN 0065-9738 .
John Joseph Lydon (/ ˈ l aɪ d ən / LY-dən; born 31 January 1956), also known by his former stage name Johnny Rotten, is a British-born singer, songwriter, author, and television personality. He was the lead vocalist of the punk rock band the Sex Pistols , which was active from 1975 to 1978, and again for various revivals during the 1990s ...
Both John the Lydian and Zacharias Rhetor report that John was a native of Caesarea, Cappadocia. Procopius, John Malalas, the Chronicon Paschale, and Zacharias called him "John the Cappadocian" for disambiguation reasons, as the name John ("Ioannes" in Greek and "Johannes" in Latin) was widely used by his time.
George Allen Russell (June 23, 1923 – July 27, 2009) was an American jazz pianist, composer, arranger and theorist. He is considered one of the first jazz musicians to contribute to general music theory with a theory of harmony based on jazz rather than European music, in his book Lydian Chromatic Concept of Tonal Organization (1953).
In November 2023, Dr. John: Solo Piano Live in New Orleans 1984 was released by the Dr. John estate and 501 Record Club. [45] On April 20, 2024, Dr. John: Gris-Gris Gumbo Ya Ya: Singles 1968-1974 was released by Omnivore and the Dr. John estate, on double purple vinyl as a special Record Store Day release, and as a CD on April 26, 2024. [46]
"Pretty Ballerina" was one of the first pop songs to use the Lydian mode in its melody (more specifically the acoustic scale), predating the Beatles' Indian-inspired "Blue Jay Way" and Donovan's "Peregrine".
The name Lydian refers to the ancient kingdom of Lydia in Anatolia. In Greek music theory, there was a Lydian scale or " octave species " extending from parhypate hypaton to trite diezeugmenon , equivalent in the diatonic genus to the modern Ionian mode (the major scale ).
Manuscript of Damage and destruction in realmes by John Lydgate, ca. 1450, in the Houghton Library at Harvard University.. Having literary ambitions (he was an admirer of Geoffrey Chaucer and a friend to his son, Thomas) he sought and obtained patronage for his literary work at the courts of Henry IV of England, Henry V of England and Henry VI of England.