Charles Burney wrote that Arne introduced " a light, airy, original, and pleasing melody, wholly different from that of Purcell or Handel, whom all English composers had either pillaged or imitated ".

Besides Arne, the other dominating force in English opera at this time was George Frideric Handel, whose opera serias filled the London operatic stages for decades, and influenced most home-grown composers, like John Frederick Lampe, who wrote using Italian models.

Between 1733 and 1776, Arne wrote music for about 90 stage works, including plays, masques, pantomimes, and opera.

A moderately prolific composer, Arne wrote nine operas and collaborated on at least 15 others.

Like his father, Arne wrote in the popular galante style of the day and utilized both rudiments of English folk music and Italian opera in his compositions.

Burney, referring to these evenings, wrote that he found himself " in a constellation of wits, poets, actors, and men of letters ", including, among others, Handel, Garrick and Arne.

Joseph Haydn and Thomas Arne wrote concertos for fortepiano or harpsichord, at the period of time when they were in common usage ( the late 18th century ).

Charles Burney wrote that Arne introduced " a light, airy, original, and pleasing melody, wholly different from that of Purcell or Handel, whom all English composers had either pillaged or imitated ".

For a period in the late 18th century, Joseph Haydn and Thomas Arne wrote concertos which could be played interchangeably on both harpsichord, fortepiano and ( in some cases ) pipe organ.

A young conservative, Arne Sejr, wrote ' Danskerens regler ' ( The Rules of the Dane ) on the very day of the invasion, and instigated civil disobedience and sabotage of Nazi rule.

Like Arne, Lampe wrote operatic works in English in defiance of the vogue for Italian opera popularised by George Frideric Handel and Nicola Porpora.

Subscribers included the Earl and Countess of Burlington as well as other aristocracy ; a number of academics and organists ; taverns such as The Devil and The Globe in Fleet Street where concerts were held ; the actor David Garrick ( who produced many of Shakespeare's plays at Drury Lane ) and some of the other Vauxhall musicians, including Valentine Snow for whom Handel wrote his famous trumpet solos ; several composers including Thomas Arne and William Boyce ( who both worked for Garrick at Drury Lane, composing music for many of his productions ), Giovanni Battista Sammartini and Geminiani.

A Danish historian, Arne Søby has nonetheless proposed that Cassiodorus, who wrote the original text on which Jordanes ' work is based, invented him, with inspiration from the name of Βέρικος ( Berikos or Verica ).

Music historian Charles Burney, a close friend of the Arne family, indicates that he was Thomas Arne's natural son but there is some speculation among modern scholars that he may have been adopted.

Susannah and Thomas enjoyed a close life long relationship and Arne was the most constant presence in her life.

According to close friend Nils Arne Eggen, Olsen would have been awarded with more caps as a player, had it not been for the current Norway manager Willi Kment, who did not approve of Olsen's long hair and generally scruffy appearance, as well as his personal political views.

The majority of his campaign funds spent on the close DFL Primary, he lost to Governor Arne Carlson by nearly a two-to-one margin.

On 23 July 2007 HJK lieutenant Tor Arne Lau Henriksen was killed in a short and intense close quarters engagement between a Norwegian special forces reconnaissance patrol and hostile fighters in Logar Province, Afghanistan.

Brundtland's hallmark political activities have been chronicled by her husband, Arne Olav Brundtland, in his two bestsellers, Married to Gro ( ISBN 82-516-1647-6 ) and the sequel, Still married to Gro ( ISBN 82-05-30726-1 ).

The RSPB owns and manages a large nature reserve at Arne and the Dorset Wildlife Trust has two reserves at East Creech and also manages the unique Purbeck Marine Wildlife Reserve at Kimmeridge The National Trust also owns the great chalk grassland ridge of Ballard Down to the south of Studland, and manages it as a nature reserve.

On the 1980 British Television series Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious World, Egyptologist Arne Eggebrecht created a voltaic cell using a jar filled with grape juice, to produce half a volt of electricity, demonstrating for the programme that jars used this way could electroplate a silver statuette in two hours, using a gold cyanide solution.

The Swedes immediately tapped the line, in May 1940, and the mathematician and cryptographer Arne Beurling cracked the two earliest models in two weeks, using just pen and paper.

Shots were exchanged, and two prominent German Gestapo officers, Johannes Behrens and Henry Bertram, and the Norwegian Arne Værum, were shot dead.

During the first two years of his career, 1950 – 1952, he worked at the architectural practice of Arne Jacobsen, another Danish architect and furniture designer.

Another study by Ulrika Manns and Arne A. Anderberg ( 2005 ), based on molecular phylogeny, states that Anagallis in its present circumscription is paraphyletic and should also include in its clade the small genera Asterolinon and Pelletiera, as well as two Lysimachia species ( Lysimachia nemorum and Lysimachia serpyllifolia ).

In this version the ballad became so popular that it was used in two plays, an anonymous novel, operas by Thomas Arne and Geoffrey Bush, and Carl Loewe's ballad " Der Bettlers Tochter von Bednall Green ".

The two World Cup goals makes him the highest scoring Norwegian in World Cup history, with one goal more than Arne Brustad, Dan Eggen, Håvard Flo and Tore André Flo.

On April 26, 1942, after having discovered that some of the inhabitants of Telavåg were hiding two men from the Linge company, Arne Meldal Værum and Emil Gustav Hvaal, the Gestapo arrived to arrest the Norwegian officers.

At the 1972 SSU conference, two members of this group ; Anders Hjelm and Arne Johansson ; met representatives of the Labour Party Young Socialists in Britain, where supporters of the left wing Militant had won control of that organisation, and began discussing with them.

After two weeks of single hand work, the Swedish professor of mathematics Arne Beurling decoded the cipher of the G-schreiber with only use of pencil and paper.

Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Shaun Donovan, both currently cabinet officials in the Obama Administration, also resided in Leverett during their times at Harvard ; in fact, the two were roommates.

He had two brothers, the younger being the well-known philosopher Arne Næss.

He worked as a member of Arne Domnérus ’ s septet ( initially co-led by the trumpeter Rolf Ericson ) for two years from 1951 ; the group mainly performed at Nalen, a leading dance spot in Stockholm.

It features works of famous Danish designers like Arne Jacobsen, Jacob Jensen and Kaare Klint, who was one of the two architects who remodeled the former Frederiks Hospital ( built 1752 – 57 ) into a museum in the 1920s.

In the 1932 election the communists got 1, 1 % of the vote and Aksel Larsen and Arne Munch-Petersen became the first two communist members of parliament.

Like his father, Arne worked primarily as a composer of stage music and vocal art song, contributing little to other genres of music.

Arne also showed an early talent as a composer and his first collection of vocal art songs entitled The Floweret was published in 1750.

He was responsible for linking the vocal style of Henry Purcell to the later style of Arne by combining popular English folks song and tavern song with Italian flourishes.

* The American vocal group Deep River Boys featuring Harry Douglas with Arne Bendiksen's orchestra recorded the song in Oslo on August 8, 1956.

Frederic Reynolds staged an operatic version in 1819, with music by Henry Bishop supplemented with some songs by Mozart and Arne.

Along with Swan's compositions, The New Harp includes songs such as " Coronation " by Oliver Holden, " Easter Anthem " and " Rose of Sharon " by William Billings, " Creation " by Nehemiah Shumway, " Arlington " by Thomas Arne, and " Duke Street " by John Hatton.