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Adventures in Good Music

German-American musicologist Karl Haas, whose knowledge of every facet of music was encyclopedic, started Adventures in Good Music in 1959 on radio station WJR in Detroit, Michigan.

Aguiar

Ernani Aguiar, Brazilian composer, choral conductor, and musicologist

Basevi

Abramo Basevi (1818-1885), Italian musicologist, associated with the music journal L'Armonia

Bharat Gupt

Bharat Gupt, A retired Associate Professor in English, who taught at the College of Vocational Studies of the University of Delhi, is an Indian classicist, theatre theorist, sitar and surbahar player, musicologist, cultural analyst, and newspaper columnist.

Blanc Wan

After working with Bryce Morrison in London, Blanc Wan later studied the piano at the Royal Northern College of Music with the celebrated Russian pianist Dina Parakhina, and earned his master degree at University of Oxford, where he worked with the distinguished musicologist Laurence Dreyfus.

He is currently working on his PhD project with the renowned cellist and musicologist Alexander Ivashkin at the Research Centre for Russian Music, University of London.

Brian Ellard

Brian Joseph Ellard, M.A., Ph.D., (born January 15, 1940) is a Canadian educator, musicologist, arranger, and conductor.

Bruhn

Siglind Bruhn (born 1951), German musicologist and concert pianist

Combs College of Music

Under her direction an impressive faculty was assembled which included Jean Casadesus, Leo Ornstein, Philadelphia Orchestra members Jacob Krachmalnick, Carl Torello and William Kincaid, musicologist Guy Marriner and composer Romeo Cascarino.

Daniélou

Alain Daniélou (1907–1994), French historian, intellectual, musicologist and Indologist

Ellis Gibbons

Ellis Gibbons was evidently counted as having promise by his contemporaries: at the age of 28 he became the only composer, other than the editor Thomas Morley himself, to contribute two madrigals to The Triumphs of Oriana, a collection of 25 madrigals published in 1601, although the American musicologist Joseph Kerman (in his 1962 comparative study of the English madrigal) states that "possibly one of the two is by Edward Gibbons."

English Musical Renaissance

The musicologist Colin Eatock writes that the term "English musical renaissance" carries "the implicit proposition that British music had raised itself to a stature equal to the best the continent had to offer"; among the continental composers of the period were Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Dvořák, Fauré, Bruckner, Mahler and Puccini.

Euba

Akin Euba (born 1935), Nigerian composer, musicologist, and pianist

Falsettone

In that same period, Italian musicologist Rodolfo Celletti, who was also an amateur singing teacher, tried to restore the falsettone technique, training the tenor Giuseppe Morino, who made his debut singing the tenore contraltino role of Gualtiero in Bellini’s Il pirata, at the Festival della Valle d'Itria in Martina Franca.

Fauzia

Reenat Fauzia, noted sitarist, daughter of Mobarak Hossain Khan, a distinguished musicologist and litterateur

Flames of Paris

Flames of Paris (original Russian title Plamya Parizha) is a classical ballet with music by musicologist and composer Boris Asafyev based on songs of the French Revolution, and originally choreographed by Vasily Vainonen, with design by Vladimir Dmitriev.

Flora MacNeil

These brought her to the attention of Hamish Henderson, who recorded her singing as part of his 1950s collaboration with American musicologist Alan Lomax.

Gerhold K. Becker

met his future wife, the musicologist and concert pianist Siglind Bruhn.

Gilardino

Angelo Gilardino (born 1941), Italian composer, guitarist, and musicologist

In Concert with the London Symphony Orchestra

With the help of Marco de Goeij, a Dutch fan who was also a musicologist and composer, the two painstakingly recreated the lost score, and Lord elected to have the band perform it once more at the Royal Albert Hall, but this time with the London Symphony Orchestra rather than the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, and with Paul Mann as conductor rather than Malcolm Arnold.

Irène Deliège

Shortly after graduating she began to attend the courses music writing and harmony given by Profressor Andre Souris at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels, and as a result was invited to attend the Summer School for New Music in Darmstadt (Darmstädter Ferienkurse), where she met the Belgian musicologist Celestin Deliege, whom she married in 1954.

James Massengale

James Rhea Massengale, is an American musicologist and former professor at UCLA, who among others has specialised in the Swedish poets Carl Michael Bellman and Olof von Dalin.

Jean Chantavoine

Jean Chantavoine (17 May 1877 – 16 July 1952) was a French musicologist and biographer and the secretary general for the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique.

Joseph Friedrich Hummel

Father of musicologist Walter Hummel, he was a musician and promoter of the works of Wagner, Bruckner and Strauss, a representant of the more creative sounding musical culture of his time.

Krumbiegel

Martin Krumbiegel (born 1963), a German tenor, musician and musicologist, brother of Sebastian

Leopold van Gilse van der Pals

Leopold van Gilse van der Pals (St. Petersburg 4 July 1884 – Dornach 7 February 1966) was a composer and the brother of musicologist Nicolaï van Gilse van der Pals.

Lightnin' Hopkins

Musicologist Robert "Mack" McCormick opined that Hopkins "is the embodiment of the jazz-and-poetry spirit, representing its ancient form in the single creator whose words and music are one act".

Louis Adolphe le Doulcet, comte de Pontécoulant

Louis Adolphe le Doulcet, comte de Pontécoulant (1794 – 20 February 1882) was a French soldier and musicologist.

Marianna Martines

The musicologist Charles Burney, visiting Vienna, found that she also could speak English.

Michael Hart

Mickey Hart (born 1943), drummer and musicologist with the Grateful Dead

Michel Philippot

Michel Paul Philippot (2 February 1925 in Verzy – 28 July 1996 in Vincennes) was a French composer, mathematician, acoustician, musicologist, aesthetician, broadcaster, and educator.

Mikhail Girgis El Batanouny

The hymns from Cantor Mikhail were the source of the vocal notes recorded by Professor Ernest Newlandsmith, a musicologist from Oxford University, with the help of Dr. Ragheb Moftah.

MoodLogic

Prominent employees and consultants to the company included musicologist Dr. Robert Gjerdingen, psychologist Daniel Levitin and record producer/e-music.com co-founder Sandy Pearlman.

Mozart in Italy

In his review of this first Italian journey, musicologist Maynard Solomon's investigation of the meagre financial information provided by Leopold indicates that the Mozarts made a substantial profit—perhaps as much as 2,900 florins.

Padraic Colum

He collected Irish folk songs, including the famous She Moved Through the Fair, for which Colum wrote most of the words, with the musicologist Herbert Hughes.

Per Dahl

Per Dahl (born 1952) is a Norwegian musicologist, Associate Professor at the University of Stavanger and former Rector of the university's predecessor, Stavanger University College.

Philippe Daudy

By her he had a son Clément (married to the British artist Kate Daudy), an economist, and a daughter, Mathilde, a singer and documentary-maker (married to musicologist Marcel Pérès).

Pidoux

Pierre Pidoux (1905–2001), Swiss theologian, organist and musicologist

Pierre Pidoux

Swiss theologian, organist and musicologist, brother of the Edmond Pidoux

Richard Terry

Sir Richard Runciman Terry (1864–1938), English organist, choir director and musicologist

Rimsky Korsakov

Andrey Rimsky-Korsakov (1878–1940), Russian musicologist and son of Nikolai

Roberto García

Roberto García Morillo (1911–2003), Argentine composer, musicologist, and music critic

Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands

Musicologist Wilfrid Mellers writes that "Sad Eyed Lady" stands with "Mr. Tambourine Man" as "perhaps the most insidiously haunting pop song of our time".

Sophie Drinker

Sophie Lewis Drinker (born Sophie Lewis Hutchinson, 24 August 1888 in Haverford, Pennsylvania, died 6 September 1967 in Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia) was an American amateur musician and musicologist.

Stace England

Greetings From Cairo, Illinois was the subject of a radio documentary on VPRO Dutch National Broadcasting produced by the musicologist and author Jan Donkers, and featured a vocal performance by alternative country musician Jason Ringenberg of Jason & the Scorchers.

Venugopal Rao

Pappu Venugopala Rao is a well-known Indian educationist and renowned musicologist.

Vivian Fine

In addition to numerous articles and several dissertations, two books have been published on Fine’s life and music: The Music of Vivian Fine, by the noted musicologist Heidi Von Gunden (Scarecrow Press, 1999), which won the ASCAP-Deems Taylor award in 2000, and Vivian Fine, A Bio-Bibliography, by the poet and composer Judith Cody (Greenwood Press, 2002).

Yves Gérard

From 1955 to 1956 he studied at the Sorbonne under composer, musicologist and theoretician Jacques Chailley.

Zulu music

The song was in a traditional Zulu choral style, which soon came to the attention of American musicologist Alan Lomax, who brought to the song to folk singer Pete Seeger, then of The Weavers.


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