Joan's is the smaller of the two tombs ; both were decorated with brass plates — full-length representations of them on the tops, and small shields bearing coats of arms around the sides — but those were damaged or destroyed in 1644 during the English Civil War.

Tony relates to Ziva David the meaning of challenge coins, explaining that they are a form of bragging rights for who has " rubbed elbows " with the biggest brass.

The church contains the funerary brass ( dated to 1506 ), and was the burial place, of Sir Walter Denys ( d. 1506 ) and his father Maurice Denys ( d. 1466 ), esquire, both lords of the manor, seated at Olveston Court.

However it seems they had become accustomed to Olveston Court since it was in Olveston church that both Maurice Denys ( d. 1466 ) and his eldest son Sir Walter Denys ( d. 1506 ) were buried, in the middle of the choir ( chancel ) as the Denys monumental brass ( dated 1505 ) in the church states.

In England, Charles was placed under the charge of Alletta ( Hogenhove ) Carey, the Dutch-born wife of courtier Sir Robert Carey, who taught him how to talk and insisted that he wear boots made of Spanish leather and brass to help strengthen his weak ankles.

A dejected procession, numbering some 4, 000 according to most of the sources, such as Hills or Jackson filed out of the Land Port with Queen Isabella's banner at their head, and led by the Spanish Governor, Diego de Salinas, the Spanish garrison, with their three brass cannon, the religious orders, the city council and all those inhabitants who did not wish to take the oath of allegiance to Charles III as asked by the terms of surrender.

Other signed pieces of furniture in the collection include a bureau by Jean-François Oeben, a pair of pedestals with inlaid brass work by André Charles Boulle, a commode by Bernard Vanrisamburgh and a work-table by Martin Carlin.

It became famous for a traveling brass band that was organized by Charles Tipton Grant in 1901.

2003 saw the three surviving members of MC5 — Kramer, bassist Michael Davis, and drummer Dennis Thompson — performing as the MC5 at the 100 Club in London with Fred " Sonic " Smith's place temporarily being taken by Nicke Andersson of The Hellacopters, vocal chores at that time being filled variously by David Vanian of The Damned, Lemmy of Motörhead, Ian Astbury of The Cult, and singer Kate O ' Brien, as well as seeing Charles Moore and Buzzy Jones reprise their roles in the brass section from the High Time album.

Shortly before, in 1878, the Salvation Army, under Charles Fry, instituted the idea of playing carols at Christmas, using a brass band.

The use of a repetitive bassline in " The National Anthem ", along with the chaotic soundscape produced by a brass section, is an example of the band's attempt to emulate the music of Charles Mingus.

Memorial brass plaque to Charles Alfred Stothard, Bere Ferrers Church, Cornwall, floor of NE corner of chancel

Musically, the songs ranged from pseudo-classical elegance (" Stranded In Time ", " Where Is Yesterday ") to aggressive discordance and hard rock (" The Garden of Earthly Delights ", " Hard Coming Love "), with heavy electronic distortion and collages of “ found ” music such as brass bands, Byrd being heavily influenced by Charles Ives.

He identified the origins of the concept in the antiphonal music of the late renaissance and early baroque, in the antiphonal use of four brass ensembles placed in the corners of the stage in the Requiem of Hector Berlioz and, most importantly, in works of Charles Ives, in particular The Unanswered Question.

The Canadian Brass is a brass quintet founded by Dr. Charles Daellenbach and Gene Watts in 1970.

Palmer there used to be a brass plaque to Charles Dickens below this but

A fine brass eagle lectern given in memory of Charles Castle, died 1886.

1838: Charles Green patents an original and unique method of producing solid, seamless brass and copper tubes, around this time much development takes place in Birmingham and Manchester with regards to copper tubing and printing plates.

ABQ commissions by Samuel Adler, Bruce Adolphe, Daniel Asia, Jan Bach, Robert Beaser, William Bolcom, Elliott Carter, Billy Childs, Robert Dennis, Jacob Druckman, Eric Ewazen, Anthony Plog, Huang Ruo, David S. Sampson, Gunther Schuller, William Schuman, Ralph Shapey, Joan Tower, Melinda Wagner, and Charles Whittenberg are considered among the most significant contributions to the brass quintet repertoire.

In north chapel there is on the north wall the inscription of a brass to Thomas Cowche, d. 20 Feb. 1641 – 2, and a tablet to Charles Trimnell, rector of the parish, d. 1702, and Mary his wife, d. 1684.

In 1700, another group of Bristol Quakers ( including Edward Lloyd and Charles Harford ) had agreed to set up a brass works ' somewhere in England '.

Dead, dead as a brass door nail, and I sometimes feel like the Sexton, for I'm about the last to be even interested.

" As he Emperor Alexios I knew that the Pisans were skilled in sea warfare and dreaded a battle with them, on the prow of each ship he had a head fixed of a lion or other land-animal, made in brass or iron with the mouth open and then gilded over, so that their mere aspect was terrifying.

Grand Pianola Music ( 1982 ): Adams commented, " Dueling pianos, cooing sirens, Valhalla brass, thwacking bass drums, gospel triads, and a Niagara of cascading flat keys all learned to cohabit as I wrote the piece.

:" I have continued the revolution I began in Il giuramento: varied forms, cabalettas banished, crescendos out, vocal lines simplified, fewer repeats, more originality in the cadances, proper regard paid to the drama, orchestration rich but not so as to swamp the voices, no long solos in the ensembles ( they only force the other parts to stand idle to the detriment of the action ), not much bass drum, and a lot less brass band ".

Andre Previn said, " You know, Stan Kenton can stand in front of a thousand fiddles and a thousand brass and make a dramatic gesture and every studio arranger can nod his head and say, ‘‘ Oh, yes, that ’ s done like this .’’ But Duke merely lifts his finger, three horns make a sound, and I don ’ t know what it is!

He later noted, " Ironically, the studio brass were horrified when I said I was cutting the wave.

Wallis Budge, The Chronography of Gregory Abu ' l-Faraj, vol I, p. 98, APA – Philo Press, Amsterdam, 1932 ): ( After the Arab pillage of Rhodes ) " And a great number of men hauled on strong ropes which were tied round the brass Colossus which was in the city and pulled it down.

" I liked ( the ) film but they overdubbed some lousy brass on the stuff!

Until the 1990s, the entire school of over 700 pupils dined there at a single sitting, all brought to silence for grace by the beating of a massive brass howitzer shell, captured from a German gun emplacement during World War I and then converted into a gong.

However, due to changes in military tactics by the end of World War I field musical had been mostly phased out in favor of the brass bands.

He said that " having recently visited the fire brigade museum – we shook the cobwebs off the door as we opened it – I have to say that it is not a museum that is fit for purpose or that in my view contributes anything ", adding " when you've seen one brass helmet you have seen them all ".

Although there are isolated examples of thimbles made of precious metals — Elizabeth I is said to have given one of her ladies-in-waiting a thimble set with precious stones — the vast majority of metal thimbles were made of brass.

File: EdmundOneTameBrassFairford. jpg | Monumental brass for Edward I Tame ( d. 1534 ), son and heir of John Tame, in the north wall of the Lady Chapel.

Under Queen Mary, his corpse was burnt in the marketplace, but under Elizabeth I, the dust from the place of burning was replaced in the church and now lie under a brass floor plate in the south chancel.

In Britain, however, it was released in late November after Stiff Records noticed a line referring to the festival — " I wish I was at home for Christmas " — and the specific style of brass instruments and bells in the chorus as a " Christmas-style " theme.

Made of cast brass and painted with lifelike colors, it depicts Kamehameha I, and represents an important cultural and spiritual object for the local community.

The Kamehameha I sculpture is an over-sized painted brass casting of King Kamehameha I, the ruler credited with unifying the Hawaiian Islands in the early nineteenth century and establishing the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi in 1810.

When I enter the resupply ship, it jingles with a metallic sound, so when we separate it will sound like a brass band .” Progress 13 pumped 300 liters of water aboard on May 31.

As he explained, " People spend whole evenings listening to a brass quintet, a woodwind or string quartet, so I reasoned that having ALL of these in the context of a big band should give us a fantastic variety of colors from which to draw.

A brass bell and steam whistle were donated to Purdue University by the Monon Railroad in 1940 for installation on the original Boilermaker Special I.