Symphony for the devil : the Rolling Stones story / by Norman, Philip, 1943-

Ken Russell presents 'Classic widows' as featured on T.V.'s South Bank Show.

Table of Contents: “…Walton (2:22) -- Mark of Cain, extract (3:19) ; A symphony of liberation, movt. II / B. Stevens (3:49) -- Symphony no. 5, movt. …”
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Orpheus Britannicus : a collection of all the choicest songs for one, two, and three voices / by Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695

Orpheus Britannicus, A collection of all the choicest songs for one, two, and three voices / by Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695

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The theater of music, or, A choice collection of the newest and best songs sung at the court and public theaters : the words composed by the most ingenious wits of the age, and set to music by the greatest masters in that science : with a theorbo-bass to each song for the theorbo or bass-viol : also symphonies and retornels in 3 parts to several of them for the violins and flutes.

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Victorian music for the English concertina /

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The Jane Austen companion.

Table of Contents: “…String symphony no. 4. Andante /…”
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Masters of the English musical renaissance.

Table of Contents: “…Symphony no. 3 in C : The English (32:00) ; Concertstück : for orchestra (10:12) / Hubert Parry -- The complete symphonic movements : from The tigers / Havergal Brian (55:00) -- Saint Joan. …”
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Traditions and classics.

Table of Contents: “…Contorno -- Come sweet Death / Johann Sebastian Bach ; arranged by Alfred Reed -- Symphony no. 3 / Vittorio Giannini.…”
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Rule Britannia : a stirring collection of British music /

Table of Contents: “…Trumpet aire and symphony of flatt trumpits /…”
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Handel and the English Chapel Royal / by Burrows, Donald, 1945-

Table of Contents: “…The Chapel Royal before Handel's Arrival in England: Symphony Anthems and Thanksgivings --…”
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The Verve /

Table of Contents: “…Sit & wonder -- Sonnet -- Rather be -- This is music -- Lucky man -- Bittersweet symphony -- Love is noise.…”
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Songs without words : keyboard arrangements of vocal music in England, 1560-1760 / by Mangsen, Sandra

Table of Contents: “…Ballads transformed -- Arias domesticated : The ladys entertainment and other early eighteenth-century anthologies -- With their symphonies : William Babell and The ladys entertainment books 3 and 4 -- Opera remix : Babell's Suits of 1717 -- After Babell : arrangements for ladies and gentlemen -- Afterthoughts.…”
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Songs without words : keyboard arrangements of vocal music in England, 1560-1760 / by Mangsen, Sandra

Table of Contents: “…Ballads transformed -- Arias domesticated : The ladys entertainment and other early eighteenth-century anthologies -- With their symphonies : William Babell and The ladys entertainment books 3 and 4 -- Opera remix : Babell's Suits of 1717 -- After Babell : arrangements for ladies and gentlemen -- Afterthoughts.…”
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Music in eighteenth-century England : essays in memory of Charles Cudworth /

Table of Contents: “…Zimmerman -- "Or rather our musical Shakespeare" : Charles Burney's Purcell / Richard Luckett -- Walsh's editions of Handel's opera 1-5 : the texts and their sources / Donald Burrows -- The recovery of Handel's operas / Winton Dean -- Intellectual contexts of Handel's English oratorios / Ruth Smith -- Handel's successor : notes on John Christopher Smith the younger / Alfred Mann -- The late additions to Handel's oratorios and the role of the younger Smith / Anthony Hicks -- Handel's harpsichord music : a checklist / Terence Best -- New light on the libretto of The creation / Nicholas Temperley -- The English symphony : some additions and annotations to Charles Cudworth's published studies / Jan LaRue -- Thematic index of English symphonies / Charles Cudworth and Jan LaRue -- A bibliography of the writings of Charles Cudworth / Richard Andrewes.…”

The bazaar, and other stories. by Armstrong, Martin, 1882-1974

Table of Contents: “…Barber's Christmas.--Helm Hall.--Symphony in G minor.--The bazaar.--The birthday.--Mrs. …”

Musical London c. 1700 : from Purcell to Handel.

Table of Contents: “…: from Romulus and Hersilia : for soprano, two violins, bass viol, and harpsichord (2:58) ; Trio sonata in G minor for two violins, bass viol, and organ (8:24) / Giovanni Battista Draghi -- Tell me, some pitying angel : Z 196 : (the Blessed Virgin's expostulation) : for soprano, bass viol, and organ / Henry Purcell (6:39) -- Creep softly, purling streams : for soprano, two violins, bass viol, and harpsichord / Raphael Courteville (3:58) -- Suite in D minor for two violins, bass viol, and harpsichord / Nicola Matteis (7:44) -- For rural and sincerer joys : (symphony song) : for soprano, two violins, bass viol, and harpsichord / William Croft (7:45) -- Suite in D minor for two violins, bass viol, and organ / John Weldon (10:04) -- Venus and Adonis : HWV 85 : (cantata) : for soprano, violin, cello, and harpsichord / George Frideric Handel ; reconstructed by Peter Holman (10:11) -- Sonata 'Smallcoal' : in D major, for two violins, cello, and harpsichord / Johann Christoph Pepusch (3:52) -- Have mercy upon me, O God (Chandos anthem) : for soprano, two violins, cello, and organ / Nicola Francesco Haym (14:07).…”
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British musical criticism and intellectual thought, 1850-1950 /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Trends in British musical thought, 1850-1950 / Jeremy Dibble and Julian Horton -- Avoiding "coarse invective" and "unseemly vehemence" : English music criticism, 1850-1870 / Peter Horton -- Spencer, sympathy and the Oxford school of music criticism / Bennett Zon -- Free thought and the musician : Ernest Walker, the "English Hanslick" / Jeremy Dibble -- Ernest Newman and the promise of method in biography, criticism and history / Paul Watt -- "Making symphony articulate" : Bernard Shaw's sense of music history / Harry White -- Analysis and value judgment : Schumann, Bruckner and Tovey's Essays in musical analysis / Julian Horton -- The scholar as critic : Edward J. …”
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Four hundred songs and dances from the Stuart masque /

Table of Contents: “…Primrose -- The house measure -- The quadran pavan -- The earl of Essex's measure -- The black almain -- Argulius -- The two merry lasses -- The merry young man -- The merry bachelor -- The humming bachelor -- The merry clerk -- The merry old woman -- The merry old man -- The battle of Harlaw -- The bee -- Robart's almain / Robart -- The silver swan / Orlando Gibbons -- Bateman's almain / Robert Bateman -- Lake's almain / Lake -- Gibbon's almain / Olando Gibbons -- Maynard's almain / John Maynard -- Dowland's Almain / Dowland -- Almain -- Almain -- Ca me, ca thee -- Almain -- Stephen Thomas's first almain -- Almain -- Almain -- Bull's toy / John Bull -- Stephen Thomas's second almain / Stephen Thomas -- Almain / John Dowland -- Symphonia ; Symphonia / Nicholas Lanier -- Symphony / Simon Ives -- Symphony (A masque) ; Carileen / William Lawes -- Symphony / Simon Ives -- Symphony / William Lawes -- Mr. …”

Five Tudor portraits ; Five variants of 'Dives and Lazarus' / by Vaughan Williams, Ralph, 1872-1958

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