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Title page of the 1st edition of The Dancing Master (1651) Social and cultural changes in British society in the early modern era, often seen as creating greater divisions between different social groups, led from the mid-17th century to the beginnings of a process of rediscovery of many aspects of popular culture, including festivals, folklore, dance and folk song. [1]
Performers of note in classical music include Catherine Hayes (1818–1861), Ireland's first great international prima donna and the first Irish woman to perform at La Scala in Milan; tenor Barton McGuckin (1852–1913), a much-demanded singer in the late 19th century; tenor Joseph O'Mara (1864–1927), a very prominent singer around the turn ...
In addition to advancing the scope of rock music, British acts developed avant-funk and neo soul and created acid jazz. Whilst disco is an American form of music, British pop group Bee Gees were the most prominent performers of the disco music era in the mid-to-late 1970s, and came be to known as the "Kings of Disco" by media outlets. [41]
22 November – An honorary doctorate in music is conferred on Edward Elgar by the University of Cambridge. [1] 27 November – The Sérénade lyrique for small orchestra by Edward Elgar, composed in 1899, is performed in its orchestral version for the first time at St. James' Hall, London. [6] unknown date – Arnold Bax enters the Royal ...
George Frideric Handel was a leading figure of early 18th-century British music. Music in the British Isles, from the earliest recorded times until the Baroque and the rise of recognisably modern classical music, was a diverse and rich culture, including sacred and secular music and ranging from the popular to the elite. [1]
The revival was part of a wider national movement in the period around the First World War, and contributed to the creation of the English Pastoral School of classical music which incorporated traditional songs or motifs, as can be seen in the compositions of Percy Grainger (1882–1961), Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872–1951), George Butterworth ...
Women in Ireland, 1800–1918: A Documentary History. Cork U. Press, 1995. 356 pp. McCormack, W. J. ed. The Blackwell Companion to Modern Irish Culture (2002) Mokyr, Joel. Why Ireland Starved: A Quantitative and Analytical History of the Irish Economy, 1800–1850. Allen & Unwin, 1983. 330 pp. online edition
Interior of the Canterbury Hall, an early example of a music hall, opened 1852 in Lambeth.. Early British popular music, in the sense of commercial music enjoyed by the people, can be seen to originate in the 16th and 17th centuries with the arrival of the broadside ballad as a result of the print revolution, which were sold cheaply and in great numbers until the 19th century.