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Grove's dictionary of music and musicians;, 1907
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1passionate Pauans with diuers other Pauans, Galliards, and Almands' (1605); and Johann Ghro's 30 Pavans and Galliards 'nach teutscher art gesetzt' (1604). For another description of the dance see Bishop Earle's Microcosmographie, ed. by Bliss (Nares's Glossary).
3The Spanish Pavan, a variety of the original dance which came from Spain (where it was called the Grand Dance), was of a more elaborate character than the original. Judging from the frequent occurrence of its air in the early English Lute and Virginal Books, it must have become very popular in England.1 The following is the tune which Tabourot gives for it: it is not the same as that which is found in the English books.
5W. B. S.
7PAXTON, STEPHEN, a composer of vocal music, born in London 1735, was a pupil of W. Savage, produced several graceful and elegant glees, nine of which, with two catches, are printed in Warren's Collections. The Catch Club awarded him prizes for the following glees: 'How sweet, how fresh,' 1779; 'Round the hapless Andre's urn,' 1781; 'Blest Power,' 1784; and 'Come, O come,' 1785; and for a catch, 'Ye Muses, inspire me,' 1783. He published 'A Collection of two Songs, Glees and two Catches,' and 'A Collection of Glees.' Two masses by him are printed in Webbe's Collection. He died August 18, 1787, aged fifty-two, and was buried in St. Pancras old churchyard.
9His brother, WILLIAM, born 1737, was a violoncellist, who composed several sets of solos and duets for his instrument. He gained prizes from the Catch Club for two canons, 'O Lord in Thee,' 1779, and 'O Israel, trust in the Lord,' 1780. His glee, 'Breathe soft, ye winds,' was for long a favourite. He died in 1781.
11W. H. H.
13PAYNE, EDWARD JOHN, a talented amateur musician and writer upon musical subjects, and historian, known to readers of the first edition of this Dictionary and the two first volumes of the present edition by his initials E. J. P. Born 1844; died 1904. By profession a barrister-at-law, he became in 1883 Recorder of High Wycombe, his native town. Educated at High Wycombe Grammar School and Magdalen College, Oxford (1867). Took a first-class in 1871 and was elected Fellow of University College in 1872. He was widely
151 In Stürter's Frische Lust Hof (1634), it is called 'Engelsche indraygende Dans Loudesteyn.'
17known as a historian, and contributed the opening chapters to the Cambridge Modern History. His best-known works were (1) A History of European Colonies; (2) The Voyages of Elizabethan Seamen to America; (3) History of the New World called America. He was one of the leaders of the movement which re-introduced the study of the old viols, and was an accomplished performer on the viol da gamba, and viole d'amour. He was first President of the Cremona Society (1889), and contributed an erudite paper on 'The Viol da Gamba' to the Proceedings of the Musical Association (March 4, 1889). In his later years he suffered much from ill-health, and was found drowned in the Canal at Wendover, Dec. 24, 1904. [See Times, Dec. 28, 1904]. E. H. A.
19PEABODY CONCERTS, given under the auspices of the Conservatory of Music of the Peabody Institute, Baltimore, Maryland. Beginning in 1865, eight concerts were given every season, each being preceded by a public rehearsal, the director of the Conservatory officiating as conductor. The programmes have been made up of symphonies, suites, overtures, concertos, and vocal solos, nearly everything presented being classic in style. Many important compositions have been performed for the first time in America in the course of these concerts. Under Asger Hamerik's direction (since 1871) especial attention has been given to the production of works by American, English, and Scandinavian composers. The orchestra has generally included fifty musicians. The institution elicited the warm approbation of Von Bülow (1875-76) for its exceptionally fine performances.
21F. H. J.
23PEACE, ALBERT LISTER, Mus.D., born Jan. 26, 1844, is a native of Huddersfield. He exhibited in his childhood precocity hardly exceeded by that of Crotch or even Mozart; naming with unerring accuracy individual notes and combinations of notes when sounded, before attaining his fifth year. At the age of nine he was appointed organist of the parish church of Holmfirth, and subsequently of other churches in that neighbourhood. In 1866, at the age of twenty-one, he removed to Glasgow, to fill the office of organist to Trinity Congregational church, and soon afterwards, along with other posts, that of organist to the University. In 1870 he graduated as Bachelor, and in 1875 as Doctor of Music in the University of Oxford. [In 1879 he was appointed to Glasgow Cathedral. He became organist of St. George's Hall, Liverpool, in succession to W. T. Best, in January 1897.]
25Dr. Peace is one of a school of organists which came into existence in this country only in the latter half of the 19th century, and which may be said to owe that existence to S. S. Wesley. Its distinguishing characteristic may be said to be the employment of the feet
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