Among the most famous composers who wrote for the harpsichord were the members of English virginal school of the late Renaissance, notably William Byrd ( ca.

After he returned to the US, Byrd wrote an article for the August 1927 edition of Popular Science Monthly in which he predicted that while specially modified aircraft with one to three crewmen would fly the Atlantic non-stop, it would be another 20 year before it would be realized on a commercial scale.

Among LaGrange's alumni were several generals, Alabama governors Edward A. O ' Neal and David P. Lewis, Alabama Supreme Court justice William M. Byrd and U. S. Senator Jeremiah Clemens, who wrote the first American Civil War novel and the first western novel.

When Byrd wrote a letter to Lucy ’ s parents asking to court her, they immediately accepted.

Byrd knew easily how to woo Lucy, and wrote passionate letters to her, exclaiming his love with poetic phrases, such as, " Fidelia, possess the empire of my heart " ( Treckel 133 ).

Of the comparison among the three, Rick Koster wrote in the book Texas Music that Walker's success came more quickly than that of Chesnutt or Byrd.

William Byrd wrote a Pavan and a Galliard for Sir William Petre, which were published as part of his Parthenia.

Composers well known for their choral works wrote organ music, for example Tallis, Byrd and Gibbons.

After the elder Byrd read of his son's newfound stardom in the newspaper, he wrote, " Since you're going to play football, I'm glad to see you're doing it well.

Though he claimed to have left the organization in 1943, Byrd wrote a letter in 1946 to the group's Imperial Wizard stating " The Klan is needed today as never before, and I am anxious to see its rebirth here in West Virginia.

Each member of the Flames from Brown, Johnny Terry, Nash Knox and original Flames Bobby Byrd, Sylvester Keels and Nafloyd Scott ( Roy Scott left prior to the initial recordings ) were said to have contributed to the music as well as the simpler lyrics, composed by Bobby Byrd and Johnny Terry, while the musicians in the band including the Scott brothers, wrote the music.

All these show Byrd gradually emerging as a major figure on the Elizabethan musical landscape.

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.

By the end of the 16th century, a new generation of composers, including John Dowland, William Byrd, Orlando Gibbons, Thomas Weelkes and Thomas Morley were helping to bring the art of Elizabethan song to an extremely high musical level.

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.

The record was released in early 1968, at a time when there was a receptive audience for “ underground music ” which combined musical experimentalism with radical social and / or political lyrics – other examples, in their very different ways, including the Velvet Underground ( who shared a common background in the New York experimental music scene ; according to Moskowitz, Nico at one point tried to join the USA ), Frank Zappa ( whom Byrd considered a niche-marketer " subsumed in a self-referential loop "), Love ’ s Forever Changes, Country Joe and the Fish, and Jefferson Airplane.

Toward the end of his life, Tallis resisted the musical development seen in his younger contemporaries such as William Byrd, who embraced compositional complexity and adopted texts built by combining disparate biblical extracts.

The CD will contain musical settings of the Psalms by Allegri, Bernstein, Byrd, Parry, Purcell and Wesley.

She attended Cass Technical High School where fellow students included such future musical talents and jazz greats as Donald Byrd, Gerald Wilson, and Kenny Burrell.

Fellowes ' editions of English Tudor church music represent a very significant contribution to 20th Century musical scholarship, bringing to new prominence composers such as Byrd and Orlando Gibbons, whose work was thus made accessible to composers and scholars, notably Ralph Vaughan Williams, whose revision of The English Hymnal was influenced by study of these themes in Fellowes ' editions.

In addition to J. L. White's editorial work, he and his nephew, Charles P. Byrd, issued a reprint of the fourth edition of the Sacred Harp around the turn of the century ( circa 1897 ).

" The album was recorded without a permanent drummer, but the group soon added original Byrd Michael Clarke on drums.

* Byrd, Cecil K. The Harmony Society and Thoughts on the Destiny of Man.

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.

In March 1970, most of the members of Brown's mid-to-late 1960s road band walked out on him due to money disputes, and The Famous Flames singing group had disbanded ( for the same reason ), with original and founding member Bobby Byrd the only one remaining with Brown.

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.

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.

As the breed was beginning to come to prominence, in 1933 Navy Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd brought about 50 Siberian Huskies with him on an expedition in which he hoped to journey around the 16, 000-mile coast of Antarctica.

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.

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.

* January 21 – * Queen Elizabeth I of England grants a monopoly on producing printed sheet music to Thomas Tallis and William Byrd

Thurmond became President pro tempore of the US Senate in 1981, and held the largely ceremonial post for three terms, alternating with his longtime rival Robert Byrd depending on the party composition of the Senate.

It is at any rate clear that Byrd was composing Anglican church music, for when he left Lincoln the Dean and Chapter continued to pay him at a reduced rate on condition that he would send the cathedral his compositions.

Byrd obtained the prestigious post of Gentleman of the Chapel Royal in 1572 following the death of Robert Parsons, a gifted composer who drowned in the Trent near Newark on 25 January of that year.

In 1575 Byrd and Tallis were jointly granted a patent for the printing of music and ruled music paper for 21 years, one of a number of patents issued by the Crown for the printing of books on various subjects.

Ferrabosco's motets provided direct models for Byrd's Emendemus in melius ( a5 ), O lux beata Trinitas ( a6 ), Domine secundum actum meum ( a6 ) and Siderum rector ( a5 ) as well as a more generalized paradigm for what Joseph Kerman has called Byrd's ' affective-imitative ' style, a method of setting pathetic texts in extended paragraphs based on subjects employing curving lines in fluid rhythm and contrapuntal techniques which Byrd learnt from his study of Ferrabosco.

This has led scholars from Kerman onwards to believe that Byrd was reinterpreting biblical and liturgical texts in a contemporary context and writing laments and petitions on behalf of the persecuted Catholic community, which seems to have adopted Byrd as a kind of ' house ' composer.

Domine praestolamur ( 1589 ) is a good example of this style, laid out in imitative paragraphs based on subjects which characteristically emphasize the expressive minor second and minor sixth, with continuations which subsequently break off and are heard separately ( another technique which Byrd had learnt from his study of Ferrabosco ).

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.

Although not representing Byrd at his most profound, it achieved great popularity and is of incidental interest for the information which it gives on sixteenth-century English military calls.

It was evidently at the behest of this circle of friends that Byrd now embarked on a grandiose programme to provide a cycle of liturgical music covering all the principal feasts of the Catholic Church calendar.

Mass for Four Voices, or the Four-Part Mass, which according to Joseph Kerman, was probably the first to be composed, is partly modelled on John Taverner's Mean Mass, a highly regarded early Tudor setting which Byrd would probably have sung as a choirboy.

Byrd remained in Stondon Massey until his death on 4 July 1623, which was noted in the Chapel Royal Check Book in a unique entry describing him as ‘ a Father of Musick ’.

Byrd is honored together with John Merbecke and Thomas Tallis with a feast day on the liturgical calendar of the Episcopal Church ( USA ) on November 21.