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The dominant style in English-speaking Canada and the United States began as Gregorian chant and folk hymns, superseded after the 1970s by a folk-based musical genre, generally acoustic and often slow in tempo, but that has evolved into a broad contemporary range of styles reflective of certain aspects of age, culture, and language. There is a ...
Martin Edward Fallas Shaw OBE FRCM (9 March 1875 – 24 October 1958) was an English composer, conductor, and (in his early life) theatre producer. His over 300 published works include songs, hymns, carols, oratorios, several instrumental works, a congregational mass setting (the Anglican Folk Mass), and four operas including a ballad opera.
(1970) A Folk Mass (1970) A People's Mass (1970) An English Congregational Mass (1971) Psalm tones (1971) Responsorial psalms for the church's year (1973) A Unison Setting of Series 3 : Anglican liturgy (1974) Psalms for Sundays (1975) A New People's Mass : post Vatican II English text (1978) Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia : Corpus Christi
The New England Folk Festival is an annual weekend festival of traditional dance and music. It takes place in the Boston, Massachusetts region each spring. It is conducted by the New England Folk Festival Association. Both the festival and the association are colloquially known by the abbreviation NEFFA. NEFFA is a participatory festival ...
No. 14 in B-flat major: 'Harmoniemesse' ('Wind-band Mass') (H. 22/14) (1802). The Harmoniemesse 1802 was Haydn's last major work. He shortly afterward sank into debilitating illness and was unable to compose further.
Patrick Robert Norman Appleford (1925–9 December 2018) [1] was an English Anglican priest and hymnwriter.Along with Geoffrey Beaumont and others he was a founder of the "Twentieth Century Church Light Music Group" around 1960, which significantly affected the development of hymn-writing and hymn-singing across English-speaking churches from that time onwards.
In the mid-1980s a new rebirth of English folk began, this time fusing folk with energy and political aggression derived from punk rock. Leaders included The Pogues, The Men They Couldn't Hang, Oyster Band and Billy Bragg. [42] Folk dance music also became popular in the 80s, with acts like the English Country Blues Band and Tiger Moth. [43]
The Mass in G minor is a choral work by Ralph Vaughan Williams written in 1921. According to one commentator, it is the first Mass written in a distinctly English manner since the sixteenth century. [ 1 ]