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Hildegard von Bingen (1098 – 1179)

Known for: Medieval mystic or prophet and visionary. Abbess. Composer of music. Writer of books on spirituality, visions, medicine, nature. Correspondent with many

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1815 The Year Without Summer

The year 1816 is known as the Year Without a Summer because of severe climate abnormalities that caused average global temperatures to decrease by 0.4–0.7 Â°C

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Hildegard von Bingen (1098 – 1179)

Known for: Medieval mystic or prophet and visionary. Abbess. Composer of music. Writer of books on spirituality, visions, medicine, nature.

The Day The Music Died

On February 3, 1959, American rock and roll musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and “The Big Bopper” J. P. Richardson were killed in a plane crash

Robert Johnson (1911 – 1938)

Robert Leroy Johnson (1911 – 1938) was an American blues musician and songwriter. His landmark recordings in 1936 and 1937 display

Early Tin Pan Alley Recordings

Between the late 1890s and 1970s New York City’s music publishing district was known as “Tin Pan Alleyâ€â€”a reference to

Early Ragtime Recordings

During the early 1900s America’s musical pulse was syncopated and ragtime, with its then novel, engaging beat, was seemingly everywhere.

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John Dunstable (1390 – 1453)

John Dunstaple (c.1390-1453), once more often spelled Dunstable, was one of the most influential composers of the early fifteenth century. Dunstaple’s persona took on such a mythological character among later authors that it is this awe which is most discernible today, rather than any underlying facts. Indeed, few details of

Hildegard von Bingen (1098 – 1179)

Known for: Medieval mystic or prophet and visionary. Abbess. Composer of music. Writer of books on spirituality, visions, medicine, nature. Correspondent with many ordinary and powerful people. Critic of secular and religious leaders. Also Known As: Hildegard von Bingen, Sibyl of the Rhine. Born in Bemersheim (Böckelheim), West Franconia (now

1800 Beethoven’s First Symphony

IN THE LIST OF COMPOSITIONS OFFERED BY BEETHOVEN TO HIS PUBLISHER THE FIRST SYMPHONY FIGURES AT THE PRICE OF £10. In hearing this Symphony, we can never forget that it is the first of that mighty and immortal series which seem destined to remain the greatest monuments of music, as

1847 Abide With Me

The first printing of the words by Henry Francis Lyte is said to have been in a leaflet printed at Berry Head, Brixham, Devonshire, in Sept., 1847, but otherwise not described; no copy has been found. An early printing of the words is in the Remains of the Late Rev.

Music is a Dualism. It is formed of the conjunction of two elements—the one purely musical, the other poetical— the one sensuous, the other spiritual or intellectual—the one owing its origin and development to Instruments, and based on the mere animal delight in Sound; the other owing its origin and development to Language, and based on the fusion of the Emotional and Intellectual sides of man’s nature.

John Frederick Rowbotham

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