Until orchestral music replaced chamber music as the dominant form, Stainer's violins were more sought-after even than Stradivari's.

He sang in his father's church choir ( his first solo was as First Malefactor in Stainer's The Crucifixion ), and in school concerts, but was mainly active in sports.

Stainer's production can be divided into three distinct periods: the first, including the stay in Italy, from the beginning until 1650, the second until 1667 and the third until his death.

In the 19th century, with the exception of John Stainer's The Crucifixion ( 1887 ), Passion settings were less popular, but in the 20th century, they have again come into fashion.

John Stainer's The Crucifixion ( 1887 ) became the stereotypical battlehorse of massed amateur choral societies.

‘ While a slight and somewhat outdated work Olivet to Calvary, like Stainer's more substantial Crucifixion, rewards sincere performance .’

The versions compared below are taken from the New English Hymnal ( 1986 ) ( which is the version used in Henry Ramsden Bramley and John Stainer's, Carols, New and Old ), Ralph Dunstan's gallery version in the Cornish Songbook ( 1929 ) and Rev.

The book includes Stainer's arrangements of what were to become the standard versions of " What Child Is This ", " God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen ", " Good King Wenceslas ", " The First Nowell ", and " I Saw Three Ships ", among others.

Byrd's output of Anglican church music ( defined in the strictest sense as sacred music designed for performance in church ) is surprisingly small, but it stretches the limits of elaboration then regarded as acceptable by some reforming Protestants who regarded highly wrought music as a distraction from the Word of God.

His output was both sacred and secular, and hugely prolific: over 500 works have been attributed to him.

Sammartini was not, primarily, a composer of opera, his main output being of sacred music and symphonies, but Milan boasted a vibrant opera scene, and Gluck soon formed an association with one of the city's up-and-coming opera houses, the Teatro Regio Ducal, where his first opera, Artaserse, was performed on 26 December 1741.

His output varies from the sublime to the ridiculous, and he showed a sense of humor not often associated with sacred music: for example, one of his motets satirizes poor singers ( his setting of Super flumina Babylonis, for five voices ) which includes stuttering, stopping and starting, and general confusion ; it is related in concept if not in style to Mozart's A Musical Joke.

Immensely popular in his time, Hasse was best known for his prolific operatic output, though he also composed a considerable quantity of sacred music.

Jommelli wrote cantatas, oratorios and other sacred works, but by far the most important part of his output were his operas, particularly his opere serie of which he composed around sixty examples, several with libretti by Metastasio.

In addition to his output of sacred music as the director of St. Mark's, he wrote numerous madrigals, a secular form ; he is considered a Flemish madrigal composer of the first rank.

In fact, his musical output was roughly 80 percent sacred music, either liturgical or for private use.

While Wert wrote both sacred and secular music, as well as a handful of instrumental fantasias, his madrigals were by far the most famous portion of his output during his lifetime.

" Her output is also unique in that it only contains secular vocal music, with the exception of one volume of sacred songs.

His output of sacred music was even more remarkable: he wrote 120 psalm settings, for one voice, chorus, basso continuo, and various other instruments ; 54 motets, for similar forces ; 28 masses ; 83 versetti and other liturgical works.

Most of his output was for vocal forces, including stage works, oratorios, masses and other sacred pieces.

While Marenzio wrote some sacred music in the form of motets, and madrigali spirituali ( madrigals based on religious texts ), the vast majority of his work, and his enduring legacy, is his enormous output of madrigals.

Most of Porta's output is sacred music, especially motets.

The lack of sacred music in his output is striking, especially for a Roman at the end of the 16th century, though perhaps some of his music has not survived.

Apparently it was at this time that he withdrew from practical music-making and instead decided to devote himself to publishing his entire output of sacred music, an immense undertaking, and the earliest recorded such attempt in music history.

Donato's sacred music is the most conservative portion of his output, usually using polyphony in the Palestrina style, but also using some of the grand polychoral effects of the Gabrielis.

His output of sacred music fell off dramatically late in his life, and at least one scholar has suggested that this was because he was uncomfortable with the new style.

Belli's output of sacred music was impressive.

Of his output, only sacred vocal music has survived, and it typifies early 15th century practice.

His compositional output includes eighteen symphonies, fourteen instrumental concertos ( including a trumpet and bassoon concerto ), sonatas, sacred works and an opera: Les Troqueurs.

The majority of his vast output ( over 700 pieces survive ) include sacred motets, often for double choir, in the Renaissance style or stile antico as well as sacred villancicos.

Hammerschmidt wrote motets, concertos and arias, and almost all of his output is sacred vocal music in the concertato style.

Since the invention of the MIDI system in the early 1980s, for example, some people have worked on programs which map MIDI notes to an algorithm and then can either output sounds or music through the computer's sound card or write an audio file for other programs to play.

The city has two commercial radio stations: Forth One, a station aimed at young listeners with a mainstream chart music output, and Forth 2 on medium wave which plays classic hits.

His music is modern without being modernist, combining a reverence for the great Austro-German lineage of composers with very personal innovations in harmony and orchestration ( showing an awareness of the output of composers such as Debussy and Ravel, whose piano music he was known greatly to admire, along with a knowledge of more recent composers in his own German-speaking realm, such as Schoenberg, Berg, Hindemith, etc .).

" In his essay on Parsons for Rolling Stone magazine's " 100 Greatest Artist " list, Keith Richards notes that Parsons ' recorded music output was " pretty minimal.

Around 1740 his musical output fell sharply, even though he continued fulfilling his duties as Hamburg music director.

This led to a further decline in his output around 1762, however, he was still capable of composing music of highest quality, and continued to write until his death on the evening of 25 June 1767.

A basic karaoke machine consists of a music player, microphone inputs, a means of altering the pitch of the played music, and an audio output.

This includes frequency scaling and mixing of software channels back into the two-channel output, though most 32X games used the PWM unit to play back fixed-frequency samples such as drum kits, voices, and sound effects, and have the main part of the music run from the YM2612 and PSG channels.

His songwriting shifted as well, moving away from the traditional piano-and-strings ballad sound of his 1970s output towards a number of styles largely ignored in pop music, including primal blues, cabaret stylings, rumbas, theatrical approaches in the style of Kurt Weill, tango music, early country music and European folk music as well as the Tin Pan Alley-era songs that influenced his early output.

Apart from Captain Beefheart and some of Dr. John's early output, there was little precedent in popular music.

In spite of his enormous output of operas, today he is most noted for his instrumental music, especially his oboe concertos.

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