traditional british music Archives - TravelsFinders.Com ® http://travelsfinders.com/tag/traditional-british-music Tue, 28 Mar 2017 15:19:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.4 MUSIC OF BRITAIN http://travelsfinders.com/music-of-britain.html http://travelsfinders.com/music-of-britain.html#respond Sun, 01 Jan 2017 14:33:00 +0000 http://travelsfinders.com/?p=225324 MUSIC OF BRITAIN During the Renaissance, English ears were tuned to cathedral anthems, psalms, madrigals, and the odd lute performance. Henry Purcell (1659-1695) rang in the Baroque with instrumental music for Shakespeare’s plays as well as England’s first great opera, Dido and Aeneas. The 18th century welcomed the visits of the foreign geniuses Mozart, Haydn, and George Frideric Handel, a German composer who wrote operas in the Italian style but spent most of his life in Britain. Today’s audiences are probably familiar with the operettas of W.S. Gilbert (1836-1911) and Arthur Sullivan (1842-1900); the pair were rumored to hate each

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