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Thus `` America '', the most widely sung of the patriotic songs, was written by a New England Baptist clergyman, Samuel Francis Smith ( 1808-1895 ), while a student in Andover Theological Seminary.
Along with the Pontificale, Ealdred may have brought back from Cologne the first manuscript of the Cambridge Songs to enter England, a collection of Latin Goliardic songs which became famous in the Middle Ages.
Also in 1983, he recorded tracks including " In England and In Africa " and " Sing Like Billy Bragg " which were used as a demo ’ to secure a further Peel Session in 1984, where he performed three songs including " Hands Together Eyes Closed ".
The lute was also used throughout its history as an ensemble instrument, most frequently in songs for voice and lute ; these were particularly popular in Italy ( see frottola ) and England.
The first, and possibly the most important academic collection to focus in this area was James Orchard Halliwell's, The Nursery Rhymes of England ( 1842 ) and Popular Rhymes and Tales in 1849, in which he divided rhymes into antiquities ( historical ), fireside stories, game-rhymes, alphabet-rhymes, riddles, nature-rhymes, places and families, proverbs, superstitions, customs, and nursery songs ( lullabies ).
I missed everything about England so I started writing songs which created an English atmosphere.
Although madrigals were initially dramatic settings of unrequited-love poetry or mythological stories in Italy, they were imported into England and merged with the more dancelike balletto, celebrating carefree songs of the seasons, or eating and drinking.
Among Novello's well known songs are, " Keep the Home Fires Burning "; " Fold Your Wings "; " Shine Through My Dreams "; " Rose of England "; " I Can Give You the Starlight "; " And Her Mother Came Too "; " My Dearest Dear "; " The Land of Might-Have-Been "; " When I Curtsied to the King "; " We'll Gather Lilacs "; " Someday my Heart Will Awake "; " Yesterday "; " Waltz of My Heart "; " Why isn't It You "; " My Life Belongs to You "; " Fly Home Little Heart "; " Take Your Girl "; and " Primrose ".
He composed over 150 songs, and is best known for the patriotic ballad " The Roast Beef of Old England ".
Recordings of works by Richard Leveridge include the songs " Black and gloomy as the grave ", " When daisies pied and violets blue ", and " The Roast Beef of Old England ".
The Associates toured as support band for The Cure and The Passions on the Future Pastimes Tour of England between November and December — all three bands were on the Fiction Records roster — with the new Cure line-up already performing a number of new songs for the projected second album.
Welch was a key reason for the band's move from England to California in the mid-1970s, played lead and rhythm guitar and wrote or co-wrote many of the songs on five Fleetwood Mac albums.
Other songs have different names in different places, for instance in England there is an old ballad known as A Brisk Young Sailor Courted Me, however exactly the same song in North American Bluegrass is known as " I Wish My Baby Was Born ".
The manuscripts reflect an " international " European movement, with songs originating from Occitania, France, England, Scotland, Aragon, Castile and the Holy Roman Empire.
In preparation for the album, Lauper visited England and France during summer 2007 to write for the album and wrote songs with dance artists like Axwell, The Scumfrog, Basement Jaxx, Digital Dog, Dragonette, Kleerup and others.
In 1971 Norman visited England for the first time, and lived in a house at 153 Park Lane, Carshalton, where he wrote a number of songs including " The Great American Novel ", and the as yet unreleased " Living on Park Lane ".
I missed everything about England so I started writing songs which created an English atmosphere.
After studying in Italy and France, he returned to England where he taught for several years at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and became a well known singer and composer of art songs.
The band then returned to England for two headline performances at the V Festivals, which received poor reviews, with NME stating " where songs used to spiral upwards and outwards, they now simply fizzle tamely.
Two newly recorded songs, " Manhood " and " My Life in England ", appeared on the album and were touted as new singles.
For the Scottish, English, and Irish volumes, he worked with the BBC and folklorists Peter Douglas Kennedy, Scots poet Hamish Henderson, and with the Irish folklorist Séamus Ennis, recording among others, Margaret Barry and the songs in Irish of Elizabeth Cronin ; Scots ballad singer Jeannie Robertson ; and Harry Cox of Norfolk, England, and interviewing some of these performers at length about their lives.
Former-Beatle George Harrison recorded two of Carmichael's songs (" Baltimore Oriole " and " Hong Kong Blues ") for his 1981 LP Somewhere in England.
-Literally Grieg: complete texts to all Edvard Grieg's songs and choral Music with literal English translations ( England, St. Albans: RJW Enterprises, 2011 )
Traditionally they sing a number of well-known folk songs including " John Barleycorn ", " Cannons ( Drink England Dry )" and " The Farmer's Boy ".
England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland each have a number of songs which may be played at occasions such as sports matches and official events.

England and about
Samuel Gorton was born at Gorton, England, near the present city of Manchester, about 1592.
Robert Frost, for instance, writes about rural life in New England, but he does not include any significant amount of folklore in his poems.
but my primary aim is to transcribe what Englishmen themselves are saying and writing and implying about the Roman and Anglican Churches and about the present religious state of England.
In spite of the increase in numbers and prestige brought about by the conversions of Newman and other Tractarians of the 1840's and 1850's, the Catholic segment of England one hundred years ago was a very small one ( four per cent, or 800,000 ) which did not enjoy a gracious hearing from the general public.
These men -- for the most part educated in our `` best '' New England colleges, well established financially and socially in the community -- under kindly but insistent probing, reveal little or no objective or explicit criteria or data for their generalizations about the interests and attitudes of the people they claim to serve, or about the public responses that actually follow their occasional breach of a `` client-service relationship ''.
At about the same time, in the colonies which remained linked to the crown, the Church of England began to appoint colonial bishops.
He wrote, apparently about the year 1143, a chronicle entitled Annales sive Historia de gestis regum Britanniae, which begins with Brutus and carries the history of England down to 1129.
When the wake-up call was issued to the Apollo 16 crew for their final day in space by capsule communicator Tony England, the spacecraft was about out from Earth, traveling just over.
In Sir Walter Scott's The Heart of Midlothian, for example, the heroine, Jeanie Deans, a Scottish Presbyterian, writes to her father about the church situation she has found in England ( bold added ):
When Jackson returned briefly to England in 1889 to marry, Housman was not invited to the wedding and knew nothing about it until the couple had left the country.
The waltz with its modern hold took root in England in about 1812 ; in 1819 Carl Maria von Weber wrote Invitation to the Dance, which marked the adoption of the waltz form into the sphere of absolute music.
In August 2005, police in Cambridgeshire, England, issued warnings about thieves using Bluetooth enabled phones to track other devices left in cars.
The sources he had access to gave him less information about the west of England than for other areas.
After the council of Étampes, Bernard went to speak with the King of England, Henry I, Beauclerc, about the king's reservations regarding Pope Innocent II.
Although little is known about his early life, he was likely born in Bristol, England.
The accession of Charles I ( 1625 – 1649 ) brought about a complete change in the religious scene in that the new king used his supremacy over the established, state Church " to promote his own idiosyncratic style of sacramental Kingship " which was " a very weird aberration from the first hundred years of the early reformed Church of England ".
Adherents of the Oxford Movement, begun in 1833, raised questions about the relationship of the Church of England to the apostolic church and thus about its forms of worship.
Clay Perry, an American caver of the 1940s, wrote about a group of men and boys who explored and studied caves throughout New England.
Childe's Tomb is a reconstructed granite cross on the south-east edge of Foxtor Mires, about 500 metres north of Fox Tor on Dartmoor, Devon, England at.
These peoples captured territory in the east and south of England, but at about the end of the fifth century, a British victory at the battle of Mons Badonicus halted the Anglo-Saxon advance for fifty years.
The New England Journal of Medicine published an article in 1994 about a trial which examined the relationship between daily supplementation of β-carotene and vitamin E ( alpha-tocopherol ) and the incidence of lung cancer.
The Journal of the National Cancer Institute and The New England Journal of Medicine published articles in 1996 about a trial that was conducted to determine if vitamin A ( in the form of retinyl palmitate ) and β-carotene had any beneficial effects to prevent cancer.

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