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Languages : en
Pages : 26
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Late Hours of Business. Report of a Public Meeting, of the Inhabitants of Cheltenham, Convened by the Magistrates of the Borough, in Compliance with a Requisition Headed by the Right Hon. Lord Sherborne, ... and Signed by ... about One Hundred Tradesmen of the Borough, ... Held in the Town Hall, Regent Street, Friday, Nov. 22, 1844
Author: Organ-building in Georgian and Victorian England
Author: Nicholas ThistlethwaitePublisher: Music in Britain
ISBN: 9781783274673
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Established for the building of keyboard instruments, by the mid-1790s the workshop of brothers Robert and William Gray had become one of the leading organ-makers in London, with instruments in St Paul's, Covent Garden and St Martin-in-the-Fields. Under William's son John Gray, the firm built some of the largest English organs of the 1820s and 1830s, as well as exporting major instruments to Boston and Charleston in the United States. In the early 1840s, with the marriage of John Gray's daughter to Frederick Davison - a member of the circle of Bach-enthusiasts around the composer Samuel Wesley - the firm became 'Gray & Davison'. Davison was a progressive figure who reformed workshop practices, commissioned a purpose-built organ factory in Euston Road and opened a branch workshop in Liverpool to exploit the booming market for church organs in Lancashire and the north-west. Under Davison's management, the firm was responsible for significant mechanical and musical innovations, especially in the design of concert organs. Instruments such as those built in the 1850s for Glasgow City Hall, the Crystal Palace and Leeds Town Hall were heavily influenced by contemporary French practice; they were designed to perform a repertoire dominated by orchestral transcriptions. Many of the instruments made by the firm have been lost or altered; but the surviving organs in St Anne, Limehouse (1851), Usk Parish Church (1861) and Clumber Chapel (1889) testify to the quality and importance of Gray & Davison's work. This book charts the firm's history from its foundation in 1772 to Frederick Davison's death in 1889. At the same time, it describes changes in musical taste and liturgical use and explores such topics as provincial music festivals, the town hall organ, domestic music-making and popular entertainment, the building of churches and the impact on church music of the Evangelical and Tractarian movements. It will appeal to organ aficionados interested in the evolution of the English organ in the later Georgian and Victorian eras, as well as other music scholars and cultural historians. NICHOLAS THISTLETHWAITE has written extensively on the history of the English organ and other aspects of English church music, and his book, The making of the Victorian organ (1990) is recognised as the standard work on the subject. He has acted as consultant for the restoration and rebuilding of organs, most recently at St Edmundsbury Cathedral and Christ Church
Springtime and Other Essays
Author: Sir Francis DarwinPublisher:
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Category : English essays
Languages : en
Pages : 274
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Travels in central Asia
Author: Ármin VámbéryThe Book of the Duffs
Author: Alistair Norwich TaylerPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Britain's Imperial Administrators, 1858-1966
Author: A. Kirk-GreenePublisher: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN: 9780333732977
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 347
Book Description
Britain's famous overseas civil services - the Colonial Administrative Service, the Indian Civil Service and the Sudan Political Service - no longer exist as a major and sought-after career for Britain's graduates. In this detailed study the history of each service is presented within the framework of the need to administer an expanding empire. Close attention is paid to the methods of recruitment and training and to the socio-educational background of the overseas administrators as well as to the nature of their work. The prestigious incumbents of Government House are revealingly examined. The impact of decolonisation on overseas officials and the kinds of 'second careers' which they took up are documented. This authoritative narrative history is enlivened by recourse to Service lore and anecdotes.
Devonshire Characters and Strange Events
Author: Sabine Baring-GouldPublisher:
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Category : Devon (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 966
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Norfolk Annals
Author: Charles MackiePublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1471088545
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 477
Book Description
Norfolk Annals - A chronological record of remarkable events in the nineteenth century. Antiquarian reprint. Digipublushing are independent publishers producing paperback and digital reprints of antiquarian, out of print and rare books.
A History of the Growth of the Steam-engine
Author: Robert Henry ThurstonPublisher:
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Category : Steam-engines
Languages : en
Pages : 522
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The Public School Word-Book
Author: John Stephen FarmerPublisher: Franklin Classics Trade Press
ISBN: 9780344287695
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
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