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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.
The hornpipe is a style of dance music thought to have taken its name from an English reed instrument by at least the 17th century. [10] In the mid-18th century it changed from 3/2 time to 2/2, assuming its modern character, and probably reaching the height of its popularity as it became a staple of theatrical performances. [ 76 ]
1859: Popular Music of Olden Time, William Chappell (1809–1888) (ed.) 1882: Northumbrian Minstrelsy – A Collection of the Ballads, Melodies and Small-Pipe Tunes of Northumbria, J. Collingwood Bruce (1805–1892) and John Stokoe (eds.) [2] 1882: English and Scottish Popular Ballads, Francis James Child (1825–1896) (ed.)
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]
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]
John Goss (1800–1880) John Lodge Ellerton (1801–1873) Elias Parish Alvars (1808–1849) Samuel Sebastian Wesley (1810–1876) George Alexander Macfarren (1813–1887) William Christian Sellé (1813–1898) Henry Smart (1813–1879) William Sterndale Bennett (1816–1875) Henry Charles Litolff (1818–1891) Edmund Chipp (1823–1886) Henry ...
The first Paris music hall built specially for that purpose was the Folies-Bergere (1869); it was followed by the Moulin Rouge (1889), the Alhambra (1866), the first to be called a music hall, and the Olympia (1893). The Printania (1903) was a music-garden, open only in summer, with a theater, restaurant, circus, and horse-racing.
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