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Grove's Dictionary of music and musicians, 1927
21 lines. Read by computer on 5 September 2026, twice; the two readings disagreed in places. Printed page 569. See the scan on archive.org.
1Carpenter's music, whether in large or small forms, orchestral, vocal, or solo instrumental, is characterised by certain easily discernible traits, chief of which are a whimsical fancy, a delicate, even poetic humour, and tender sentiment. His melodic invention is facile and his themes have fluency and grace. He writes with an easy mastery of form, and his orchestral works are filled with colour, but never garish. In short, he is a composer who produces music with manifest enjoyment and whose quick impulses are governed by good taste. The following is a list of his works:
3Orchestral: 'Adventures in a Perambulator,' 1915; concertino for piano and orchestra, 1915; symphony (Norfolk Festival), 1917; 'The Birthday of the Infanta,' ballet (Chicago Opera Company), 1919; 'Krazy Kat,' a jazz pantomime, 1922; chorus, 'The Home Road,' mixed voices; sonata in G major, piano and violin.
4Song Cycles: 'Gitanjali' (Tagore); Watercolours (four Chinese tone poems); 'Improving Songs for Anxious Children.'
5Numerous songs with piano accompaniment, and piano pieces.
7W. J. H.
9CARPENTRAS (IL CARPENTRASSO), the surname given by his Italian contemporaries to Eleazar GENET in reference to his origin from the town of Carpentras, Vaucluse). He is mentioned as 'Curpentrus' by Rabelais (Le Quart Livre des faits et dict héroïques de Noble Pantagruel (1552). (See GENET, E.)
11CARR, (1) JOHN, a 17th-century London music publisher, who issued many of the important musical treasures of his day. He was a friend, and in some degree a partner, of John Playford, his contemporary in music-publishing, while his shop 'near the Middle Temple Gate' must have been close to Playford's—this latter was 'in the Inner Temple and near the Church door.' Among the works published by Carr, either alone or in conjunction with Playford, are:
13'Tripla Concordia'; Matthew Locke's Melothesia or certain rules for playing upon a continued Bass, 1673; 'Comes Amoris, or the Companion of Love, being a collection of Choice Songs,' 5 books, 1687-94; The Lawfulness and Expediency of Church Musick (a sermon preached at St. Bride's in 1693);
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16and many others now of antiquarian interest. Thomas Salmon published through him his famous Essay to the advancement of Musick by the casting away the perplexity of different cliffs, 1672, a work which, attacked by Matthew Locke, John Playford, and others, caused a small paper war. With Playford, Carr published Henry Purcell's 'Sonnata's of III Parts,' 1683.
18(2) RICHARD, son of the above, was a musician in Charles the Second's royal band, and he, for a very short time, was connected with Henry Playford as publisher—see imprint on Theater of Musick, 1685. John Playford the elder, in bidding farewell to the public in 'Choice Ayres,' fifth book, 1684, says that he will now leave his labours to be taken up by two young men, 'my own son and Mr. Carr's son who is now one of His Majesty's Musick, and an ingenious person whom you may rely upon.'
20CARREÑO, TERESA (b. Caracas, Venezuela, Dec. 22, 1853; d. New York, June 12, 1917), an eminent pianist.
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