Percy, Henry
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Percy, Henry (1364–1403), known as ‘ Hotspur’. Eldest son of the earl of
Northumberland, Percy was appointed sole warden of the east march in 1385; Scottish borderers were soon calling him ‘Haatspore’. In early August 1388, he was captured at
Otterburn while pursuing a Scottish army, a battle immortalized in verse as ‘Chevy Chase’. Soon ransomed, he was warden of the west march for five years from 1390, and from 1396 succeeded his father in the eastern wardenship, continuing there after Henry IV's usurpation, which he had assisted. Father and son defeated a Scottish invasion at
Homildon Hill in 1402; the king's order against the ransom of their prisoners was one reason for their rebellion. Percy was making for Wales to join Owain
Glyndŵr when the king intercepted him near
Shrewsbury; he was killed in the battle.
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The bull-roarers. (poem)
Magazine article from: TriQuarterly; 3/22/1998; ; 430 words
; ...branches. For the first time they face an absolute darkness made terrifying by the approach of divinity announced by the bull-roarers. They come for me when it gets dark. Large and silent, wearing mummers' masks, badger claws chinging at their...
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Make it & Play it
Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post; 9/13/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...lined up. From the outside one might say that I had the bull by the proverbial horns. I felt like I was dangling under...We will make our own clay instruments like ocarinas, bull-roarers, rattles, xylophones and Udu drums from Nigeria. We...
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When we were very young
Magazine article from: Natural History; 11/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...War. Children's toys today include many low-tech items that are common around the world. Rattles, whistles, bull-roarers (a slat of wood tied to the end of a thong and whirled around the head), balls, tops, and buzzes are fun to play...
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ENCHANTED EVENING AT SYMPHONY
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 4/7/1989; ; 700+ words
; ...something specifically primordial about the piece -- one of the many wonderful participatory sounds is the whirr of bull-roarers, instruments that date back to the paleolithic age. There's also the anklung, an Indonesian rattle that sounds...
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The Lost Drum: The Myth of Sexuality in Papua New Guinea and Beyond.
Magazine article from: Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute; 6/1/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...acoustic representations. The myth, however, can become an imaginary object itself, like the drums, flutes and bull-roarers that are always detaching themselves from their owners and wandering about in the mythic narratives; myths themselves...
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John Cage knew how to listen to the world
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 8/14/1992; ; 700+ words
; ...so he had four low marimba notes constructed -- they sounded like the bells from a submerged cathedral; he wanted bull-roarers because they are prehistoric instruments. "I guess I chose some of the sounds," the composer admitted sheepishly...
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Classical: English Bach Festival Royal Opera House London
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 1/18/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...brass, and cataclysmic outbreaks of massed percussion - wind and brass players even take up triangles, whistles and bull-roarers as the chorus of Furies snap at Orestes with wooden clappers on stage. At the very end, we all got to join in, as...
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INTERVIEW
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 1/14/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...hyperactive children's chorus enacting its precociously knowing ceremonies of innocence to the accompaniment of popguns, bull-roarers and giant humming-tops - it is, in essence, "totally static, a giant decoration of the chord of E flat". It...
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Newspaper article from: Sun, The: Glen Ellyn (IL); 7/6/2007; 700+ words
; ...red-work embroidery and tatting; toys, games and crafts from the era, including graces, stilts, buzz saws and bull roarers; log cutting using a two-man saw; rope making; writing with a quill pen; horse shoeing; an area resident presenting...
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Pushing the boundaries; Terry Grimley looks ahead to a concert celebrating works by pioneering early 20th century composers.
Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England); 4/23/2009; 700+ words
; ...letter to Cowell from Bartok asking him permission to use clusters," Woolrich points out. "One of his works used bull-roarers, those things you swing round your head, and the story goes that one came loose and hit the New York Times critic...
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bull-roarer
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
bull-roarer an instrument consisting...of power as bull-roarers, flutes, or trumpets...women with bull-roarers, sexual songs...attitude toward bull-roarers is difficult to gauge...toy. The bull-roarer is also important...
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bull roarer
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music
bull roarer. See thunder stick .
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bull
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
...recorded from the mid 19th century. bull market a market in which share prices...compare bear market at bear2 ). bull-roarer a sacred object of Australian Aboriginal...resemblance to a child's toy. A bull-roarer consists of a flat oval...
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Australia
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology
...performed their magical ceremonies. To frighten them away from such spots, the men invented an instrument called a "bull-roarer" — a thin slip of wood swung at the end of a string that makes a screaming, whistling noise, which was...
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thunder stick
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music
thunder stick, bull roarer , whizzer (Ger. Schwirrholz , ‘whirlingwood’; Fr. planchette ronflante , ‘roaring board...
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