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  • 91мелодист — 1) композитор, музыка которого отличается особенной яркостью, выразительностью мелодии; 2) народный певец или музыкант инструменталист, сочиняющий только напевы песен или инструментальные мелодии. Новый словарь иностранных слов. by EdwART, , 2009 …

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  • 92symphony — /sim feuh nee/, n., pl. symphonies. 1. Music. a. an elaborate instrumental composition in three or more movements, similar in form to a sonata but written for an orchestra and usually of far grander proportions and more varied elements. b. an… …

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  • 93Dibdin, Charles — (baptized March 4, 1745, Southampton, Hampshire, Eng. died July 25, 1814, London) British composer, novelist, and actor. A cathedral chorister, Dibdin began working for a music publisher at age 15 and began his stage career in 1762. His first… …

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  • 94Gershwin, George — orig. Jacob Gershvin born Sept. 26, 1898, Brooklyn, N.Y., U.S. died July 11, 1937, Hollywood, Calif. U.S. composer. Born to Russian Jewish immigrants, he heard jazz performed live from about age six. In his teens he worked as a song plugger… …

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  • 95Gounod, Charles — ▪ French composer in full  Charles françois Gounod   born June 17, 1818, Paris, France died Oct. 18, 1893, Saint Cloud, near Paris       French composer noted particularly for his operas, of which the most famous is Faust.       Gounod s father… …

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  • 96Rachmaninoff, Sergey — ▪ Russian musician Introduction in full  Sergey Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff , Rachmaninoff also spelled  Rakhmaninov , or  Rachmaninov  born March 20 [April 1, New Style], 1873, Oneg, near Semyonovo, Russia died March 28, 1943, Beverly Hills,… …

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  • 97Rule of St. Basil —     Rule of St. Basil     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Rule of St. Basil     I.     Under the name of Basilians are included all the religious who follow the Rule of St. Basil. The monasteries of such religious have never possessed the hierarchical… …

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  • 98Saints Romanus —     Saints Romanus     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Sts. Romanus     (1) A Roman martyr Romanus is mentioned in the Liber Pontificalis (ed. Duchesne, I, 155) with three other ecclesiastics as companions in the martyrdom of St. Lawrence (10 August,… …

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  • 99traditional music composers — When instrumental music moved from teahouse to concert hall in the mid twentieth century, musicians became aware of the need to rearrange traditional repertoire to satisfy the new ticket buying public. Short pieces were lengthened by adding… …

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  • 100Charles Incledon — Charles Benjamin Incledon (1763–11 February 1826, Worcester) was a Cornish singer, son of a doctor in St Keverne, Cornwall, and educated at Blundell s School and as a choirboy at Exeter, but then went into the navy. His fine tenor voice, however …

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