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A cyclopaedic dictionary of music; comprising 18,000 musical terms and phrases, over 6,000 biographical notices of musicians, and 500 articles on musical topics, with an appendix .., 1919
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1NOTABLE QUOTATIONS, AND INTERESTING FACTS IN MUSICAL HISTORY.
3(See each name in its proper place. See also Chronology of Music.)
5Author of the first musical dictionary—Tinctor.
6Author of the oldest extant organ book—Paumann.
7'Backbone of the Tonic Sol-fa system"—the Modulator.
8Bâton used in England abt. 1820. (See Bâton.)
9'Belgian Orpheus"—Lasso (Lassus).
10Birth of opera. (See Bardi.)
11Birth of oratorio. (See Neri.)
12Chief of the Meistersingers—Hans Sachs.
13Chief promoter of "C" organs in England—Gauntlett.
14Chief writer on orchestration—Gevaert.
15'Christopher Columbus of brass instruments"—Adolphe Sax.
16'Clown of the orchestra"—the bassoon.
17Composer of "Rule Britannia"—Dr. Arne.
18Composer of the first French opera—Abbé Mailly. (See also Cambert and Lully).
19Composer of the first opera—Peri.
20Composer of the "Marseillaise"—Rouget de Lisle.
21Creator of French burlesque opera—Offenbach.
22Creator of French operetta—Hervé.
23Creator of melodrama—Rousseau.
24'Creator of the modern science of harmony"—Rameau.
25'Creator of modern trombone playing"—Queisser.
26'Creator of National Hungarian Opera"—F. Erkel.
27'Creator of the modern Viennese Waltz"—Lanner.
28Creator of the modern violin bow—Tourte.
29'Diabolus in Musica"—the tritone.
30Discoverer of difference-tones—Tartini.
31Earliest composer in the "New Style"—Galilei.
32Earliest known analytical programmes. (See Ella, and Reichardt.)
33Earliest known attempts to show pitch by parallel lines. (See Hucbald.)
34Earliest known organ-builder—Van Os.
35Earliest known regular fugue. (See P. Philipps.)
36Earliest work on conducting. (See Pisa.)
37Earliest writer on mensurable music—Franco of Cologne.
38"English Handel"—H. Purcell.
39"English Mendelssohn"—Sterndale Bennett.
40"English Palestrina"—O. Gibbons.
41"English Tourte"—John Dodd.
42Famous left-hand pf. player—Zichy.
43"Father of all such as handle the harp and organ"—Jubal (Gen. iv. 21.).
44"Father of Christian Hymnology"—St. Ambrose.
45"Father of English church music"—Tallis.
46"Father of English counterpoint"—Dunstable.
47"Father of German counterpoint"—Thiele.
48"Father of Greek music"—Terpander.
49"Father of Solmization"—Guido.
50"Father of the art of instrumentation"—Monteverde.
51"Father of the German Lied"—Heinrich Albert.
52"Father of modern French musical criticism"—Castil-Blaze.
53"Father of modern instrumental music"—Haydn.
54"Father of modern Norwegian music"—Nordraak.
55"Father of modern pf. playing"—Clementi.
56"Father of modern vn. playing"—Viotti. (See also Corelli.)
57"Father of the New Style"—Caccini.
58"Father of the nocturne"—Field.
59"Father of the oratorio"—Animmuccia.
60"Father of the Organ voluntary"—Fresco-baldi.
61"Father of the Roman school"—Goudimel.
62"Father of the symphony"—Haydn.
63"Father of the waltz"—Johann Strauss, senr.
64"Father of ultra-modern orchestration"—Berlioz.
65First Cambridge Prof. of Music—Staggins.
66First composer of comic opera—Acciajuoli.
67First composer of Polish opera—Kamienski.
68First copper-plate music printer—Verovio.
69First French opera. (See Opera.)
70First German oratorio. (See Oratorio.)
71First German organ. (See Faber.)
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