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Pageant Of Empire (Elgar)
''Pageant of Empire'' is the title given to a set of songs, to words by Alfred Noyes, written by the English composer Edward Elgar, Sir Edward Elgar and given important positions in the Pageant of Empire at the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley Park. Details The songs were first performed at the Pageant on 21 July 1924, when they were conducted by the composer. The songs were published by Enoch & Sons. They are: *''1. "Shakespeare's Kingdom"'' *''2. "The Islands (Elgar), The Islands (A Song of New Zealand)"'' *''3. "The Blue Mountains (Elgar), The Blue Mountains (A Song of Australia)"'' *''4. "The Heart of Canada"'' *''5. "Sailing Westward"'' *''6. "Merchant Adventurers (Elgar), Merchant Adventurers"'' *''7. "The Immortal Legions"'' *''8. "A Song of Union"'' Nos. 1 - 7 are for solo singer with accompaniment. No. 2 ''"The Islands"'', No. 5 ''"Sailing Westward"'', and three other poems by Noyes: ''"Indian Dawn"'', ''"The Cape of Good Hope"'' (for South Africa) and ''"Gloriana" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfred Noyes
Alfred Noyes Commander of the Order of the British Empire, CBE (16 September 188025 June 1958) was an English poet, short-story writer and playwright. Early years Noyes was born in Wolverhampton, England the son of Alfred and Amelia Adams Noyes. When he was four, the family moved to Aberystwyth, Wales, where his father taught Latin and Greek. The Welsh coast and mountains were an inspiration to Noyes. Early career In 1898, he left Aberystwyth for Exeter College, Oxford, where he distinguished himself at rowing, but failed to get his degree because he was meeting his publisher to arrange publication of his first volume of poems, ''The Loom of Years'' (1902), on a crucial day of his final examination, finals in 1903. On publication, ''The Loom of Years'' was lauded by W. B. Yeats and George Meredith. Noyes' poetry also proved popular with the book-buying public, and for the first two decades of his career his books sold well. ''The Barrel-Organ'' and ''The Highwayman'' Noy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Song Of Union
"A Song of Union" is a poem written by Alfred Noyes, and set to music by the English composer Edward Elgar. It was one of the songs (also known as the ''"Pageant of Empire"'') written to be performed in the ''Pageant of Empire'' at the British Empire Exhibition on 21 July 1924, though this particular song was not performed at the Pageant. This was the only one that the composer wrote as a part-song, though two others "'' Sailing Westward''" and "'' The Immortal Legions''" were later arranged as part-songs. The song is in the form of a confident march, beginning with the symbolic ''"stars that wheel around the Sun"'' and finally celebrating the union of the realms of Empire with ''"Love binds all our hearts in one"''. Although some of the songs in ''"Pageant of Empire"'' were associated with particular countries, this song celebrates the union of the whole Empire, and has no particular reference to what was at that time the Union of South Africa. The music is taken from the cent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1924 Compositions
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Compositions By Edward Elgar
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Songs By Edward Elgar
A song is a musical composition performed by the human voice. The voice often carries the melody (a series of distinct and fixed pitches) using patterns of sound and silence. Songs have a structure, such as the common ABA form, and are usually made of sections that are repeated or performed with variation later. A song without instruments is said to be a cappella. Written words created specifically for music, or for which music is specifically created, are called lyrics. If a pre-existing poem is set to composed music in the classical tradition, it is called an art song. Songs that are sung on repeated pitches without distinct contours and patterns that rise and fall are called chants. Songs composed in a simple style that are learned informally by ear are often referred to as folk songs. Songs composed for the mass market, designed to be sung by professional singers who sell their recordings or live shows, are called popular songs. These songs, which have broad appeal, are oft ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martin Yates
Martin Yates (born in London) is a British conductor. After attending Kimbolton School, he studied at the Royal College of Music and Trinity College of Music, London, where his teachers included Bernard Keeffe (conducting), Richard Arnell (composition), Ian Lake, Jakob Kaletsky and Alan Rowlands (piano), and Douglas Moore and John Burden (French horn). Conductor He made his conducting debut in 1983 with Israel National Opera in ''Carmen'', and appeared with them as guest conductor for two seasons, where he conducted ''Tosca'', ''Madama Butterfly'', ''La bohème'' and '' La traviata''. He came to UK notice making his Edinburgh Festival debut in 1988 with Leonard Bernstein's '' On The Town'', and thereafter conducted several major London musicals, including ''The Phantom of the Opera'' (Her Majesty's Theatre), ''Miss Saigon'' (Theatre Royal, Drury Lane), ''Carousel ''(Shaftesbury Theatre) and ''Sunset Boulevard'' (Adelphi Theatre). In 1995 he crossed back to mainstream class ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Imperial March (Elgar)
Imperial March is a piece for full orchestra written by the English composer Edward Elgar to celebrate the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria in 1897, as his Op. 32. In 1896 the publisher Novello's requested that he write an 'Imperial March' for the occasion, as well as a cantata based on the story of St. George and the Dragon. The first performance of the march was at a Crystal Palace concert on 19 April 1897, conducted by August Manns. It was played by massed bands at the Crystal Palace a week later, at a Royal Garden Party on 28 June (the actual anniversary of the Queen's coronation), at a State Concert on 18 June and at the Albert Hall (by the Royal Artillery Band) on 24 October. The music created a great impression as popular music for the mood of the public at the time, and made his name widely known in London. Instrumentation The work is written for an orchestra consisting of 2 flutes (2nd doubling piccolo), 2 oboes, 2 clarinets in B, 2 bassoons, contrabassoon, 4 horns ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Empire March
An empire is a political unit made up of several territories, military outposts, and peoples, "usually created by conquest, and divided between a dominant center and subordinate peripheries". The center of the empire (sometimes referred to as the metropole) has political control over the peripheries. Within an empire, different populations may have different sets of rights and may be governed differently. The word "empire" derives from the Roman concept of . Narrowly defined, an empire is a sovereign state whose head of state uses the title of "emperor" or "empress"; but not all states with aggregate territory under the rule of supreme authorities are called "empires" or are ruled by an emperor; nor have all self-described empires been accepted as such by contemporaries and historians (the Central African Empire of 1976 to 1979, and some Anglo-Saxon kingdoms in early England being examples). There have been "ancient and modern, centralized and decentralized, ultra-bruta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Crown Of India
''The Crown of India'', was a masque, an elaborate theatrical presentation, staged in 1912 to celebrate the visit the preceding December of King George V and Queen Mary to Delhi for their coronation as Emperor and Empress of India. For this masque, the English composer Sir Edward Elgar wrote the music as his Op. 66, with a libretto by Henry Hamilton. The masque consisted of two tableaux: "The Cities of Ind" and "Ave Imperator!". Music The masque was first performed at the Coliseum Theatre in London on 11 March 1912. Elgar composed twelve pieces for contralto, bass, chorus and orchestra: Tableau I: The Cities of Ind *1a Introduction *1b Sacred Measure *2 – Dance of Nautch Girls *2a India greets her Cities *3 – Song (Agra): 'Hail, Immemorial Ind!' (The homage of Ind) *3a Entrance of Calcutta. India: 'Welcome Calcutta!' *3b Entrance of Delhi. Delhi: 'Stop! That place is mine' *4a Introduction *4b March of the Mogul Emperors. India: 'Illustrious Emperors!' *5 – Entran ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SATB
In music, SATB is a scoring of compositions for choirs or consorts of instruments consisting of four voice types: soprano, alto, tenor and bass. Choral music Four-part harmony using soprano, alto, tenor and bass is a common scoring in classical music, including chorales and most Bach cantatas.Shrock, DennisChoral Repertoire''Oxford University Press'', 2009, p. 298, The letters of the abbreviation are also used by publishers to describe different scorings for soloists and choirs other than four-part harmony. For example, the listing "STB solos, SATB choir" of Bach's ''Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme'', BWV 140, indicates that a performance needs three soloists: soprano, tenor and bass, and a four-part choir. "SATB/SATB" is used when a double choir is required, as in Penderecki's '' Polish Requiem''. or SSATB, with divided sopranos, is a typical scoring in English church music. A listing for Bach's '' Mass in B minor'' includes the maximum of SSATB soloists and SSAATTBB eight ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth I Of England
Elizabeth I (7 September 153324 March 1603) was Queen of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death in 1603. She was the last and longest reigning monarch of the House of Tudor. Her eventful reign, and its effect on history and culture, gave name to the Elizabethan era. Elizabeth was the only surviving child of Henry VIII and his second wife, Anne Boleyn. When Elizabeth was two years old, her parents' marriage was annulled, her mother was executed, and Elizabeth was declared illegitimate. Henry restored her to the line of succession when she was 10. After Henry's death in 1547, Elizabeth's younger half-brother Edward VI ruled until his own death in 1553, bequeathing the crown to a Protestant cousin, Lady Jane Grey, and ignoring the claims of his two half-sisters, Mary and Elizabeth, despite statutes to the contrary. Edward's will was quickly set aside and the Catholic Mary became queen, deposing Jane. During Mary's reign, Elizabeth was imprisoned fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South Africa
South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the Southern Africa, southernmost country in Africa. Its Provinces of South Africa, nine provinces are bounded to the south by of coastline that stretches along the Atlantic Ocean, South Atlantic and Indian Ocean; to the north by the neighbouring countries of Namibia, Botswana, and Zimbabwe; to the east and northeast by Mozambique and Eswatini; and it encloses Lesotho. Covering an area of , the country has Demographics of South Africa, a population of over 64 million people. Pretoria is the administrative capital, while Cape Town, as the seat of Parliament of South Africa, Parliament, is the legislative capital, and Bloemfontein is regarded as the judicial capital. The largest, most populous city is Johannesburg, followed by Cape Town and Durban. Cradle of Humankind, Archaeological findings suggest that various hominid species existed in South Africa about 2.5 million years ago, and modern humans inhabited the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
