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Page 143
... English music was silent . For fifteen years only wandering Italian players and singers had tried to entertain English audiences with Italian operas . A few Englishmen also tried in a half - trained effort to write operas for the English ...
... English music was silent . For fifteen years only wandering Italian players and singers had tried to entertain English audiences with Italian operas . A few Englishmen also tried in a half - trained effort to write operas for the English ...
Page 150
... English citizen and gentleman . His old friend and patron , the elector of Hanover , came to Eng- land to become George I , the king of England . George I was none too popular with his English subjects . The king was too much of a ...
... English citizen and gentleman . His old friend and patron , the elector of Hanover , came to Eng- land to become George I , the king of England . George I was none too popular with his English subjects . The king was too much of a ...
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... English gentle- man , Thomas Percy , while visiting in an old English house , discovered a manuscript yellow with age and long unopened . Percy was a man of active imagina- tion . He wanted to know what was in the old book . He ...
... English gentle- man , Thomas Percy , while visiting in an old English house , discovered a manuscript yellow with age and long unopened . Percy was a man of active imagina- tion . He wanted to know what was in the old book . He ...
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Allegro audience Bach ballads ballet bards bass beautiful music Beethoven called cathedral chapter Charlemagne Chorus church clavichord composer concert Cremona dance delighted DISCUSSION SENTENCES England English enjoy Erlking Europe Eurydice famous feeling folk music France French fugue German gift Gluck Greece Greek Handel happy harp harpsichord Haydn hear heard heart honor Hymn instruments Italian Italy keyboard instrument king knighthood knights learned listen Liszt lived Lohengrin London melody ment minnesingers minstrel movement Mozart MUSICAL MEASURE musician opera oratorio orchestra organ Overture palace Paris patron pattern piano play pleasure poem poet program music rhythm rich Roman Rome Russian Schubert singers singing sonata song soprano SPECIAL ACTIVITY spirit story suite sung symphony teacher tell theme THOUGHT QUESTIONS tion tone TOOL WORDS TRIAL trumpet tune Vienna violin voice Wagner William Tell worship write wrote young