Though Palestrina represents late Renaissance music well, others such as Orlande de Lassus ( a Franco-Flemish composer who also spent some of his early career in Italy ) and William Byrd were arguably more versatile.

The confusion of the band was that for years, the Famous Flames were often mistaken for Brown's backing band ; fellow Famous Flame Byrd was also a member of the backing band at one point.

The 1560s were also important formative years for Byrd the composer.

Byrd had also taken serious strides with instrumental music.

In 1588 and 1589 Byrd also published two collections of English songs.

Byrd set three of the songs from Sidney's sonnet sequence Astrophel and Stella, as well as poems by other members of the Sidney circle, and also included two elegies on Sidney's death in the Battle of Zutphen in 1586.

The 1580s were also a productive decade for Byrd as a composer of instrumental music.

Byrd also played a role in the emergence of the new verse anthem, which seems to have evolved in part from the practice of adding vocal refrains to consort songs.

Byrd's last collection of English songs was Psalms, Songs and Sonnets, published in 1611 ( when Byrd was over 70 ) and dedicated to Francis Clifford, 4th Earl of Cumberland, who later also received the dedication of Thomas Campion's First Book of Songs in 1615.

Byrd also contributed eight keyboard pieces to Parthenia ( winter 1612 – 13 ), a collection of 21 keyboard pieces engraved by William Hole and containing music by Byrd, John Bull and Orlando Gibbons.

The Choir is an atmospheric Christian alternative rock band, led by Derri Daugherty on guitar and vocals, Steve Hindalong on drums — who also writes most of the band's lyrics — along with Tim Chandler on bass guitar, Dan Michaels on saxophone and lyricon and Marc Byrd on guitar ( since 2005 ).

In “ Random ’ s Child ,” this episode also becomes a musical feature performance for " Officer Randy Goode ," as Franks performs " The Sparta Impound Blues " with actor Thomas Byrd in a scene written specifically by O ' Connor to feature Franks musically after letters flooded in from viewers.

Former Lieutenant Governor of Georgia Garland T. Byrd was also a Reynolds native and is interred there at Hillcrest Cemetery.

Hindalong also co-wrote " God of Wonders " with Marc Byrd, which was used by NASA to wake up Discovery astronaut Michael Fossum.

Professor Longhair ( December 19, 1918 – January 30, 1980 ; born Henry Roeland Byrd, also known as Roy " Bald Head " Byrd and as Fess ) was a New Orleans blues singer and pianist.

New England was not the only area in the colonies ; southern literature is represented by the diary of William Byrd of Virginia, as well as by The History of the Dividing Line, which detailed the expedition to survey the swamp between Virginia and North Carolina but which also comments on the different lifestyles of the Native Americans and the white settlers in the area.

He also had 3 great grandchildren by Richard Byrd Clarke

It is also claimed that Byrd confessed his failure to reach the North Pole during a long walk with Dr. Isaiah Bowman in 1930.

This was also seen in the film With Byrd at the South Pole ( 1930 ) which covered his trip there.

She had three children with Byrd, Gwendolyn Lee (" Gwen ") Byrd ( born 1961 ), Jacquelyn Faye (" Jackie ") Byrd ( born 1962 ) and Tina Denise Byrd ( born 1965, she is featured on one of Jones and Wynette's duet albums, George and Tammy and Tina ), She had a daughter with George Jones, Tamala Georgette Jones ( born 1970 ), who is also a country singer.

Naturally, Mr. Deller and the other singers in his troupe are most charming and elegant when they are squarely in their tradition and singing music by their countrymen: William Byrd, Thomas Morley and Thomas Tomkins.

The native tradition of Latin music which Byrd had done so much to keep alive more or less died with him, while consort music underwent a huge change of character at the hands of a new generation of professional musicians at the Jacobean and Caroline courts.

Although Byrd supported Congressional acceptance of the amendment, he contended that Wilson had deviated from " historic tradition " by not waiting for Congress to consider the validity of the ratification, given the more than 202-year lapse since the Amendment had been proposed.

Virginia surveyor William Byrd II, in his History of the Dividing Line Betwixt North Carolina and Virginia ( 1728 ), recorded a tradition of a former religious leader, which had been current among the Tuscarora tribe.

Steeped in the jazz tradition ( having studied and performed with Dizzy Gillespie, Lester Bowie, Jimmy Heath, Slide Hampton, David Murray and Donald Byrd among others ), Cepeda developed this unique artistic expression by incorporating a contemporary jazz perspective with the musical and cultural traditions of his homeland, Puerto Rico.

It was at that point that Byrd broke with tradition, and determined to combine performance art, electronic sound and radical politics into a single whole, together with rock music.

Although anthems were written in the Elizabethan period by Tallis ( 1505 – 1585 ), Byrd ( 1539 – 1623 ), and others, they are not mentioned in the Book of Common Prayer until 1662, when the famous rubric " In quires and places where they sing here followeth the Anthem " first appears.

Milton Bradley was traded to Seattle in the off-season, and was replaced by Marlon Byrd and Xavier Nady as Lou Piniella entered his fourth season with the team.

Bolstered by this success, Brown recruited a new band, consisted of saxophonist J. C. Davis, guitarist Bobby Roach, bassist Bernard Odum, trumpeter Roscoe Patrick, saxophonist Albert Corley, drummer Nat Kendrick and his old band mate Bobby Byrd, who had rejoined Brown's band on organ.

Many of his sidemen and supporting players, such as Fred Wesley & The J. B .' s, Bobby Byrd, Lyn Collins, Vicki Anderson and Hank Ballard, released records on the People label, an imprint founded by Brown that was purchased by Polydor as part of Brown's new contract.

Songs such as " I Know You Got Soul " by Bobby Byrd, " Think ( About It )" by Lyn Collins and " Doing It to Death " by Fred Wesley & The J. B .' s are considered as much a part of Brown's recorded legacy as the recordings released under his own name.

A widely related story, attributed to Richard ( Prophet ) Jennings was that Davis, while in Detroit playing at the Blue Bird club as a guest soloist in Billy Mitchell's house band along with Tommy Flanagan, Elvin Jones, Betty Carter, Yusef Lateef, Barry Harris, Thad Jones, Curtis Fuller and Donald Byrd stumbled into Baker's Keyboard Lounge out of the rain, soaking wet and carrying his trumpet in a paper bag under his coat, walked to the bandstand and interrupted Max Roach and Clifford Brown in the midst of performing Sweet Georgia Brown by beginning to play My Funny Valentine, and then, after finishing the song, stumbled back into the rainy night.

The first claimed flight over the Pole was made on 9 May 1926 by US naval officer Richard E. Byrd and pilot Floyd Bennett in a Fokker tri-motor aircraft.

The three previous claims to have arrived at the North Pole — by Frederick Cook in 1908 ; Robert Peary in 1909 ; and Richard Evelyn Byrd in 1926 ( just a few days before the Norge )— are all disputed, as being either of dubious accuracy or outright fraud.

After forcing the Rams to punt on their ensuing possession, a pair of 21-yard completions from McNair to tight end Jackie Harris and wide receiver Isaac Byrd aided a 13-play, 79-yard drive that was capped by George's 2-yard touchdown run to cut the score, 16 – 13.

But, in 1958, under the policy of " massive resistance " led by the influential segregationist Senator Harry F. Byrd and his Byrd Organization, the Commonwealth prohibited desegregated local schools from receiving state funding.

** White supremacist John William King is found guilty of kidnapping and killing African American James Byrd Jr. by dragging him behind a truck for 2 miles ( 3 km ).

Based on studies by glaciologist Lonnie Thompson, professor at Ohio State University and researcher with the Byrd Polar Research Center, a number of indicators shows there was a global change in climate 5, 200 years ago, probably due to a drop in solar energy output as hypothesized by Ohio State University.

Some of the better-known composers of this time include Dufay, Josquin des Prez, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, and William Byrd ; the glories of Renaissance polyphony were choral, sung by choirs of great skill and distinction all over Europe.

He left office as the only senator to reach the age of 100 while still in office and as the oldest-serving and longest-serving senator in U. S. history ( although he was later surpassed in length of service by Robert Byrd ).

Thurmond left the Senate in January 2003 as the United States ' longest-serving senator ( a record later surpassed by Senator Byrd ).

** Set the then-record for longest cumulative tenure in the Senate at 43 years ( 1997 ), increasing to 47 years, 6 months at his retirement in January 2003, surpassed by Robert Byrd in July 2006

William Byrd (; 1540 or late 1539 – 4 July 1623, by the Julian calendar, 14 July 1623, by the Gregorian calendar ) was an English composer of the Renaissance.

Tallis ', and a reference in the prefatory material to the Cantiones sacrae published by Tallis and Byrd in 1575 tends to confirm that Byrd was a pupil of Thomas Tallis of the Chapel Royal.