AMRAM TAYLOR (1802 – 1855)
At the end of 2005 Edwin and I were beginning to look at the music we might produce for the second Mid-Shires’ Quires’ Day, taking place on 29 April. For […]
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Local Composers
MICHAEL BEESLY (1700 – 1760)
What we know so far about Michael Beesly: Michael Beesly was a psalmodist, and is considered to be one of the first, if not the first, compiler of harmonised psalm tunes who introduced the
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JOHN VALENTINE (fl. 1735 – 1792)
John Valentine came from a family which is chiefly remembered as having much to do with the waits of the city of Leicester in the second half of the eighteenth
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THOMAS JARMAN (1776 – 1861)
The following is adapted from Hymn Tunes and their Story by James T Lightwood, and amended by reference to Stephen J Weston’s preface to a booklet of music containing his edited versions
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WILLIAM TANS’UR (1700 – 1783)
William Tans’ur Taken from the frontispiece to Melodia Sacra.[Picture courtesy of The Cyber Hymnal] What We Know So Far About William Tans’ur: As with many of these early church composers,
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WILLIAM PERRY (b. 1740), WILLIAM PERRY (1765 – 1843) AND WILLIAM GROVES PERRY (b. 1796)
Notes for a Case Study of a Local Warwick Family, Composer and Botanist © 2006 Edwin Macadam, Oxford. NB: This page is updated from time to time to include references and
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JOHN MORETON (1764 – 1804)
Leader of the choir of King’s Chapel, Birmingham.
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REV’D JOHN EAGLETON (1785 – 1832)
What we know so far about John Eagleton: According to James T. Lightwood in The Music of the Methodist Hymn-Book, (London 1938), John Eagleton was born in Coventry in 1785 and was one
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RICHARD DRAYTON (fl. 1727)
What we know so far about Richard Drayton: Again, not a lot at present, except that he published one book of music, with 46 tunes in it, together with 12 anthems,
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