The 1982 science fiction film Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan used " Amazing Grace " amid a context of Christian symbolism, to memorialize the death of Mr. Spock but more practically, because the song has become " instantly recognizable to many in the audience as music that sounds appropriate for a funeral " according to a Star Trek scholar.

Lomax was the first prominent scholar to study distinctly American folk music such as that of cowboys and southern blacks.

His first major published work was in 1911, Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads, and was arguably the most prominent US folk music scholar of his time, notably during the beginnings of the folk music revival in the 1930s and early 1940s.

According to Manuel Pedro Ferreira, a scholar on the Cantigas, the music found in the Cantigas cannot be classified as Arabic, but instead must be classified as " Moorish-Andalusian ".

Sharp also worked in America, recording the traditional songs of the Appalachian Mountains in 1916 – 1918 in collaboration with Maud Karpeles and Olive Dame Campbell and is considered the first major scholar covering American folk music.

Lomax was the first prominent scholar to study distinctly American folk music such as that of cowboys and southern blacks.

and was arguably the most prominent US folk music scholar of his time, notably during the beginnings of the folk music revival in the 1930s and early 1940s.

After his father's death in 1901 Spengler attended several universities ( Munich, Berlin, and Halle ) as a private scholar, taking courses in a wide range of subjects: history, philosophy, mathematics, natural science, literature, the classics, music, and fine arts.

Music scholar Adam Krims says, “ the flow of MCs is one of the profoundest changes that separates out new-sounding from older-sounding music ... it is widely recognized and remarked that rhythmic styles of many commercially successful MCs since roughly the beginning of the 1990s have progressively become faster and more ‘ complex ’”.

" American scholar Deborah Burton contends that Franchetti gave it up simply because he saw little merit in it and could not feel the music in the play.

A self-taught scholar and a polyglot, he had a wide range of interests in varied fields including physics, mathematics, chemistry, biology, mineralogy, philosophy, arts, literature and music.

William Henry Grattan Flood, an Irish music scholar, proposed the theory that the name " uilleann " came from the Irish word for " elbow ".

In the year of our Lord 886, the second year of the arrival of St Grimbald in England, the University of Oxford was begun ... John, monk of the church of St David, giving lectures in logic, music and arithmetic ; and John, the monk, colleague of St Grimbald, a man of great parts and a universal scholar, teaching geometry and astronomy before the most glorious and invincible King Alfred.

Besides its archaic traditional music and dances, the Resia valley is also famous for its folk tales, which were edited and translated into standard Slovene language by the Slovene scholar Milko Matičetov and published by the largest publishing house in Slovenia, Mladinska knjiga, in 1976.

Notable students include Charles Brasch ( 1909 – 1973 ) at Waitaki 1923 – 1926, a poet and patron of artists ; Douglas Lilburn ( 1915 – 2001 ), " the elder statesman of New Zealand music "; James Bertram ( 1910 – 1993 ), writer and academic ; Denis Blundell, a future Governor-General of New Zealand ; and Ian Milner ( 1911 – 1991 ), the Rector's son, a Czech and English scholar falsely accused of spying for Communism.

Julius Friedländer, the founder of an international music publishing house then adopted Georg and endowed him with a large fortune enabling him to become a scholar.

Erich Moritz von Hornbostel ( 25 February 1877-28 November 1935 ) was an Austrian ethnomusicologist and scholar of music.

In his entry on Rota in the 1988 edition of The Concise Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Composers and Musicians, music scholar Nicholas Slonimsky described Rota as " brilliant " and stated that his musical style:

The autograph score's 259 pages show some signs of haste such as blots, scratchings-out, unfilled bars and other uncorrected errors, but according to the music scholar Richard Luckett the number of errors is remarkably small in a document of this length.

The appropriateness of the Italian source material for the setting of the solemn concluding chorus " His yoke is easy " has been questioned by the music scholar Sedley Taylor, who calls it " a piece of word-painting ... grieviously out of place ", though he concedes that the four-part choral conclusion is a stroke of genius that combines beauty with dignity.

The music scholar Byron Adams writes, " Despite the apparent heartiness and equilibrium of the composer's public persona, the emotional wounds inflicted by the war were deep and lasting.

The lyrics were written by Katharine Lee Bates and the music composed by church organist and choirmaster Samuel A.

He studied organ there from 1885 – 1893 with Eugène Munch, organist of the Protestant Temple, who inspired Schweitzer with his profound enthusiasm for the music of German composer Richard Wagner.

* 1760 – Joseph Graetz, German composer, organist, and music educator ( d. 1826 )

There, he received his first music lessons from a local organist.

The composer himself claimed that he inherited the talent for music from his mother, whose nephew Joachim Friedrich was Kantor at Verden ( Telemann would later publish a treatise by Joachim Friedrich's son, who became an organist ).

Finally, when Telemann got the post of organist and music director at the Neukirche, he only played the organ once, and assigned the organist's duties to his students.

Johann Friedrich Agricola ( 4 January 1720 – 2 December 1774 ) was a German composer, organist, singer, pedagogue, and writer on music.

Once full features became commonplace, however, music was compiled from photoplay music by the pianist, organist, orchestra conductor or the movie studio itself, which included a cue sheet with the film.

* March 7 – Bernarr Rainbow, historian of music education, organist, and choir master, ( b. 1914 )

* March 23 – Johann Gottfried Walther, German music theorist, organist, and composer ( b. 1684 )

The organist of the monastery, Padre Polcano, was struck by the boy's intellect, and voluntarily instructed him in the elements of music and also in the ancient and modern literature of his country.

* September 18 – Johann Gottfried Walther, German music theorist, organist, and composer ( d. 1748 )

The schoolmaster, Johann Baptist Weiß, was a music enthusiast and respected organist.

From 1861 to 1872, he supplemented his income by working as a church organist and as a music teacher.

His compositions were not enough to support him financially, and from 1861 to 1872 he supplemented his income by working as a church organist, which he enjoyed, and as a music teacher, sometimes at the Crystal Palace School, which he hated and gave up as soon as he could.

On 2002 and 2003 Stefano Vagnini, Italian composer and organist created the music for Thesys and Luther Stories.

Holst became an occasional organist and choir master at Thaxted Parish Church and began an annual music festival at Whitsuntide in 1916, at which students from Morley College and St Paul's School performed.

Braille's ear for music enabled him to become an accomplished cellist and organist in classes taught by Jean-Nicholas Marrigues.

The master of music and the organist have the responsibility of directing the St Albans Cathedral Choir and the St Albans Cathedral Girls ' Choir.

The posts of organist and master of the music has been held by a number of well-known musicians, including Peter Hurford, Stephen Darlington and Barry Rose.

He went on to study music at Keble College, Oxford, serving as organist at Hertford College, but left without taking his degree.

He passed the organist exam at the Royal Danish Conservatory of music in 1916.