Author: King's College (University of Cambridge)
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Languages : en
Pages : 476

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Author: King's College (University of Cambridge)
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Languages : en
Pages : 590

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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 616

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Includes entries for maps and atlases.

Author: Karen Arrandale
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1783272058
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Languages : en
Pages : 563

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This first full biography of Edward J. Dent (1876-1957) covers not only his pioneering music scholarship and cultural activities but also his personal crusades on behalf of music and opera, gays, refugees, and the culturally destitute. Drawn from a wide variety of unpublished sources, from behind Dent?s carefully constructed public 0persona of a cosmopolitan gentleman scholar the picture emerges of a more complex and fascinating human being. His seminal works remain fresh and vital and his writing hugely entertaining, while his ideas on the importance of the arts in everyday life are as relevant as ever.

Author: King's College (University of Cambridge)
Publisher: London : [King's College Association]
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 404

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Author: British Museum. Department of Printed Books
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Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 1138

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Author: Timothy Day
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0241352193
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 367

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The sound of the choir of King's College, Cambridge - its voices perfectly blended, its emotions restrained, its impact sublime - has become famous all over the world, and for many, the distillation of a particular kind of Englishness. This is especially so at Christmas time, with the broadcast of the Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols, whose centenary is celebrated this year. How did this small band of men and boys in a famous fenland town in England come to sing in the extraordinary way they did in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries? It has been widely assumed that the King's style essentially continues an English choral tradition inherited directly from the Middle Ages. In this original and illuminating book, Timothy Day shows that this could hardly be further from the truth. Until the 1930s, the singing at King's was full of high Victorian emotionalism, like that at many other English choral foundations well into the twentieth century. The choir's modern sound was brought about by two intertwined revolutions, one social and one musical. From 1928, singing with the trebles in place of the old lay clerks, the choir was fully made up of choral scholars - college men, reading for a degree. Under two exceptional directors of music - Boris Ord from 1929 and David Willcocks from 1958 - the style was transformed and the choir broadcast and recorded until it became the epitome of English choral singing, setting the benchmark for all other choral foundations either to imitate or to react against. Its style has now been taken over and adapted by classical performers who sing both sacred and secular music in secular settings all over the world with a precision inspired by the King's tradition. I Saw Eternity the Other Night investigates the timbres of voices, the enunciation of words, the use of vibrato. But the singing of all human beings, in whatever style, always reflects in profound and subtle ways their preoccupations and attitudes to life. These are the underlying themes explored by this book.

Author: University of London. Library
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Languages : en
Pages : 452

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Author: British Museum. Department of Printed Books
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Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 548

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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1672

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A world list of books in the English language.