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5 unusual facts about H. C. Colles


Abraham Colles

His grandson was the eminent music critic and lexicographer Henry Cope (H. C.) Colles.

H. C. Colles

He was a Fellow and Governor of St. Michael's College, Tenbury, Chairman of the Church Music Society and Chairman of the School of English Church Music.

He became assistant music critic of The Times, under J. A. Fuller-Maitland, and in 1911 succeeded him as chief critic.

On Sir Hugh Allen's invitation, he lectured on music history, analysis and interpretation at the RCM.

Whole tone scale

H. C. Colles names as the "childhood of the whole-tone scale" the music of Berlioz and Schubert in France and then Russians Glinka and Dargomyzhsky.



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