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sackbut
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music
sackbut. 1. Early Eng. name for tb. Origin of name unknown (sometimes occurs...has bell with greater flare. Matthew Locke's Music for His Majesty's Sackbuts and Cornetts dates from 1661. 2. Name of mus. periodical founded by Philip...
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Locke, Matthew
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music
...Shakespeare plays (e.g. Macbeth and The Tempest ), many anthems, 6 suites (some for recorder), Music for his Majesty's Sackbuts and Cornetts , Melothesia (studies for continuo, 1673). Also wrote pamphlets defending his style.
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Warlock, Peter
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music
...pseudonym Peter Warlock. Studied mus. at Eton, then helped by van Dieren and Delius. Founded and co-ed. periodical The Sackbut 1920 and wrote book on Delius 1923. Friend of Cecil Gray, E. J. Moeran, and Constant Lambert. Edited much 16th- and...
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Gray, Cecil
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music
...Worthing, 1951). Scot. composer and critic. Settled in London 1915. Joint ed. with Philip Heseltine of periodical The Sackbut . Mus. critic Nation and Athenaeum 1925–30, Daily Telegraph 1928–32, Manchester Guardian 1932...
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Early Music Consort
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music
Early Music Consort . Group of musicians founded by David Munrow in 1967 to perform Renaissance and other early mus. on orig. instrs. such as rebec, sackbut, shawm, curtall, etc. Many recordings.
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trombone
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music
trombone (from It., large trumpet). 1. Non-transposing brass instr., derived from sackbut , of semi-cylindrical bore and cup-mouthpiece, generally equipped with slide which serves to extend length of the tube. In...
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Chapel Royal
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music
...The artistically-minded Charles I (1625–49) established the King's Band (6 recorders, 3 fl., 9 ob. and sackbuts, 12 vn., and 24 ‘lutes and voices’, plus trumpets, drums and pipes). He appointed Nicholas Lanier...
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Galpin, Francis William
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music
...ancient musical instruments. Books incl. catalogue of Eur. instrs. in Metropolitan Museum, NY (1902), study of instrs. of American Indians, history of sackbut, etc. In 1946 the Galpin Soc. was formed in London to continue his work.
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Curwen
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music
...Williams's Pastoral Symphony and Hugh the Drover , and works by Bantock, Smyth, and Varèse. Published journal The Sackbut (1920–34), at one time edited by Philip Heseltine. In 1971 catalogue was divided between Faber Music and Roberton...
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harp
Book article from: A Dictionary of the Bible
...The psaltery was triangular in shape; the lyre was U-shaped. There is also a similar instrument translated ‘sackbut’ (Dan. 3: 5, AV)—trigon in NRSV, triangle in REB, zither in NJB—which had strings...
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