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1Hutcheson, piano; Pietro Minetti, voice; Harold D. Phillips, organ; Emmanuel Wad, piano; Bart Wirtz, 'cello; associate professors: Clara Ascherfeld, accompanying; Blanche Sylvana Blackman, voice; Charles H. Bohau, fundamental training; John C. Bohl, flute and oboe; Isabel L. Dobbin, piano sight-reading; Minna D. Hill, piano; Rosine Morris, piano; Abram Moses, violin; Adolph Renz, clarinet; Lena Stiebler, solfeggio and ear-training; Bertha Thiele, harp; Marion B. Boise, German; Olga Alfieri Williams, Italian; Elise Tournier, French; Joseph S. Ames, Ph.D., Professor of Physics at Johns Hopkins University, Special Lecturer on Acoustics, etc.; Annie May Keith, secretary. Harold RANDOLPH has been the director since 1898.
3Peace (Dr. Albert Lister) composed the cantata "St. John the Baptist," anthems, services, organ pieces, Psalm cxxxviii; played organ Glasgow Cathedral, 1879, St. George's Hall, Liverpool, 1897; organist at nine of Holmfirth parish church. B. Huddersfield, Jan. 26, 1844; add. Liverpool.
5Pearce (Joseph) appeared as author of "Violins and Violin Makers," London, 1866, long attributed to Charles Reade.
7Pearce (Stephen Austin) composed an oratorio, three-act opera, children's opera, overture, church music; played organ London churches; taught Peabody Institute and Johns Hopkins, Baltimore; played organ Collegiate Church, New York; Dr. Mus., Oxford; pupil J. L. Hopkins. B. Nov. 7, 1836, London; d. April 9, 1900.
9Pearsall, de (Robert Lucas) composed 60 part-songs and madrigals, several of which are among the best modern examples of polyphonic style; Anglican church music, as well as a requiem, Pange lingua, Tenebrae, a graduale, two settings of the Salve Regina and an Ave Verum for the Roman Catholic church, of which he eventually became a member. Of an old Worcestershire family, he went abroad for his health, after having been admitted to the bar, studied music under Joseph Panny at Mainz for four years, returned to England, 1829, but soon settled at Carlsruhe. His first work in music was cantata "Saul and the Witch of Endor," composed at 13. A Miserere mei, Domine, composed as a three-part perpetual canon, published during his sojourn at Carlsruhe, is numbered, however, as Op. 1. A ballet opera, also composed there, was never performed. His madrigals were inspired by hearing performances of the Bristol Madrigal Society while on a visit to England. In 1837 he bought Schloss Wartensee on Lake Constance, where he resided during the remainder of his life. B. Mar. 14, 1795, Clifton, Eng.; d. Aug. 5, 1856, Schloss Wartensee.
11Pearson (William) made improvements in musical typography; published music in London, 1699 to 1736.
13Peccate (Dominique) made violins and bows with Tourte and Vuillaume, and for 10 years in Paris from 1837 in his own shop. B. July 15, 1810, Mirecourt; d. Mirecourt.
15Pechatschek (François) composed concerto for violin and orchestra, chamber music; played violin; led Hanover court orchestra; directed music at court of Baden. B. July 4, 1793, Vienna; d. Sept. 15, 1840, Carlsruhe.
17Pêcheurs de Perles. Georges Bizet's three-act opera, to book by Cormon and Carré, was first performed Sept. 29, 1863, at the Paris Théâtre Lyrique.
19Peck (James) published music in London, 1800 to 1850, when he was succeeded by John Peck.
21Pedal. Name of the levers in pianos, organs, and harps, so called because worked with the feet. The Piano's Forte, or Loud Pedal, by raising the dampers, enriches the tone, permitting the Partials to sound from other strings; its Piano or Soft Pedal enables the performer to strike only one instead of two or three strings, or by other device reduce the volume of tone. Harp pedals serve to sharpen, flatten, or neutralize one note throughout the compass of the
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