Word: madrigale
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In 1895, at the Bay District Track in San Francisco, Jockey W. C. ("Bill") Clancy performed a great feat. He won a steeplechase and a flat race on the same afternoon. Last week, in Brookline, Mass., another jockey performed the same feat: George Herbert ("Pete") Bostwick won the Metropolitan Driving...
This revival along with many others such as the English Madrigal Singers and the numerous societies for the restoration of buildings of architectural and historical interest, shows to what proportions the enthusiasm for the past has grown. Nor is this movement confined only to research in the work of former...
Over the radio the National Broadcasting Company honored Franz Drdla, composer of such lush violin music as Souvenir, Serenade, Vision, Madrigal. Drdla is 60 now, eking out a meager living in Vienna by making tenpenny tunes.
Canon Fellowes, who is making his first American tour, is an authority on old English music of the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods, having devoted many years to the collection of the English madrigals from all available known sources. Nearly a thousand old English songs, gathered from fragmentary cathedral records, have...
These books include "The English Madrigal Composers," in which Canon Fellowes gives a study of the English madrigal from every point of view, and a critical survey of the composers of the period, and "English Madrigal Verse," a collection of all the typical verse produced by the madrigalists and lutanists...