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Will Atkinson (31 January 1908 – 30 July 2003) was a noted traditional musician from northern Northumberland.He started off as a player of the English diatonic accordion, but was best known as a harmonica or moothie player.
Rawsthorne's compositions and arrangements are found in many contemporary collections of organ music. His Hornpipe Humoresque is an amusing set of variations on the familiar Sailor's Hornpipe, in the styles of Bach (Brandenburg Concerto No. 3, 1st movement), Vivaldi ("Spring," 1st movement, from The Four Seasons), Arne (Rule Britannia) and Widor ("Toccata" from Symphony for Organ No. 5).
Noel Rawsthorne: Hornpipe Humoresque for organ, based on The Sailor's Hornpipe and including parts of "Rule, Britannia!" and the Toccata from Widor's Symphony for Organ No. 5 [citation needed] See also
There are two variations of the hornpipe dance: fast and slow. Usually, more experienced dancers will do the slow hornpipe, but younger dancers will start out with the fast hornpipe and then switch in later years. There is a change of tempo in the music, but not the dancing between these two speeds.
Samuel Pepys referred to the dance in his diary as "The Jig of the Ship" and Captain Cook, who took a piper on at least one voyage, is noted to have ordered his men to dance the hornpipe in order to keep them in good health. [5] The dance on-ship became less common when fiddlers ceased to be included in ships' crew members.
Hymne pour l’élévation in D major for organ, H 100 (1844) Sérénade agreste à la Madone sur le thème des pifferari romains in E flat major for organ, H 98 (1844) Toccata in C major for organ, H 99 (1844) Boëllmann, Léon. Suite Gothique; Nimrod Borenstein. Monologue opus 50 for solo organ (2008) Kol Nidreï opus 10 for solo organ (1996 ...
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John Cook was born at Maldon, Essex on 11 October 1918. After leaving St. John's School, Leatherhead, he entered Christ's College, Cambridge as an organ scholar where he came under the influence of Hugh Allen and Boris Ord.