* 1940 – James Tyler, American guitarist, composer, and author ( d. 2010 )

* 1953 – James Horner, American composer

* 1715 – James Nares, English composer of mostly sacred vocal works ( d. 1783 )

* 1941 – James Di Pasquale, American composer

* 1952 – James Ingram, American singer, pianist and composer

* How Is This Going to Continue ?, a novel by James Chapman, presents itself as the libretto to a musical work by a composer whose ( fictional ) entry in The Grove Dictionary of Music is quoted at length.

James James, the composer, was a harpist who played his instrument in the public house he ran, for the purpose of dancing.

James R. " Jim " Jarmusch (; born January 22, 1953 ) is an American independent film director, screenwriter, actor, producer, editor and composer.

* 1803 – George James Webb, English composer ( d. 1887 )

* 1955 – James P. Johnson, American pianist and composer ( b. 1894 )

Spike Lee was born in Atlanta, Georgia, the son of Jacqueline Carroll ( née Shelton ), a teacher of arts and black literature, and William James Edward Lee III, a jazz musician and composer.

Timothy James " Tim " Curry ( born 19 April 1946 ) is a British actor, singer, composer and voice actor, known for his work in a diverse range of theatre, film and television productions.

Film score composer James Newton Howard was approached by Shyamalan to work on Unbreakable immediately after scoring The Sixth Sense.

* August 17 – James Whitbourn, British composer

** James Wong, Hong Kong composer ( d. 2004 )

* June 24 – George James Webb, English-born composer ( d. 1887 )

The melody commonly associated with the rhyme was first recorded by the composer and nursery rhyme collector James William Elliott in his National Nursery Rhymes and Nursery Songs ( 1870 ).

Gary Numan ( born Gary Anthony James Webb on 8 March 1958 ) is an English singer, composer, and musician, most widely known for his chart-topping 1979 hits " Are ' Friends ' Electric?

* James Cleveland, a gospel singer, arranger, composer

The rhythm was popularized in mainstream dance music in the United States by a 1923 tune called " The Charleston " by composer / pianist James P. Johnson which originated in the Broadway show Runnin ' Wild and became one of the most popular hits of the decade.

Famous residents have included Mary, Queen of Scots ; King James VI of Scotland ; Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman ; documentary film pioneer John Grierson ; film music composer Muir Mathieson ; animation pioneer Norman McLaren ; TV presenter Kirsty Young ; and footballers Billy Bremner ( captain of Leeds United and Scotland ) and Frank Beattie ( captain of Kilmarnock ).

But there ’ s nothing dated about this perfect storm of talent, from Hitchcock and Grant to writer Ernest Lehman ( Sweet Smell of Success ), co-stars James Mason and Eva Marie Saint, composer Bernard Herrmann and even designer Saul Bass, whose opening-credits sequence still manages to send a shiver down the spine.

* James Horner, composer

The last was " The White Canoe: an Opera Seria for Hand Puppets ," for which Gorey wrote the libretto, with a score by the composer Daniel James Wolf.

James Horner, composer for The Wrath of Khan and The Search for Spock, declined to return for The Voyage Home.

James Horner, the composer of the scores for such films as Braveheart and Titanic was then hired to create a replacement score in less than four weeks.

The replacement score was written by composer James Horner in about four weeks.

** James Horner ( composer ) for Glory performed by James Horner & the Boys Choir of Harlem

Celine Dion was beginning a concert engagement in Las Vegas and was not available to perform the film's end title song, " All Love Can Be ", so composer James Horner enlisted Church and the song was rewritten for her vocal range.

Composer James Horner was also the composer for Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan and Star Trek III: The Search for Spock.

In 2002, he worked on the soundtrack of The Four Feathers in collaboration with the American composer of orchestral and film music, James Horner.

** James Horner ( born 1953 ), American composer of film scores

Her voice and arrangements can be heard in the Academy award-winning score by composer James Horner for Wolfgang Petersen ’ s Troy, including the end titles duet with Josh Groban ( produced by David Foster ) and in the original score by the Academy award-winning composer Gabriel Yared ( The English Patient ) for Troy.

The score for Once Upon a Forest was among the last that composer James Horner would write for an originally made animated film.

The Australian composer Peter Sculthorpe quoted parts of it in his opera or music theatre work Rites of Passage ( 1972-73 ), which was commissioned for the opening of the Sydney Opera House but was not ready in time.

Classical pianist and composer Franz Liszt was quoted as saying " A good Cuban cigar closes the door to the vulgarities of the world ".

American classical composer Charles Ives freely quoted a wide variety of Foster's songs in many of his own works.

However, his main goal, " has been to reestablish just intonation as a viable part of our musical tradition " ( Bermel 1995 ) and " ultimately, what Johnston has done, more than any other composer with roots in the great American musical experiments of the ' 50's and ' 60's, is to translate those radical approaches to the nature of music into a music that is immediately apprehensible " ( Swed1995, quoted in Bush 1997 ).

A myth also circulates about an alleged obituary of Alkan, cited as fact in Ronald Smith's biography of the composer and since widely quoted, credited to the magazine Le Ménestrel, beginning with the words " Alkan is dead.

* It has been alleged that Béla Bartók quoted the march theme of the first movement in the Intermezzo Interotto of his Concerto for Orchestra in response to the Hungarian composer ’ s frustration about the positive reception of the piece.

A further question is whether the composer of the divertimento actually wrote the " St. Anthony Chorale " or simply quoted an older theme taken from an unknown source.

" In a letter from November 1910 to the editor of Utro Rossii, the publication which supposedly quoted the above remarks and which attributes them to Rachmaninoff, the composer categorically denies the quotation and wrote " The article publishes without my knowledge words of mine about the Bolshoi Theater and Chaliapin ... I said that we often have regrettable confusion backstage at the Bolshoi Theater ... I also said that I had heard rumors that since Chaliapin had been appointed régisseur of those operas in which he sings, there is more quiet backstage.

Although not proven, he is frequently quoted as becoming Britain's first millionaire composer.

In September 2008, American composer Michael John LaChiusa was quoted in Opera News Online, as working on an adaptation of Bizet's Carmen with McDonald in mind.

As soon as 1827 this song was quoted by Swedish composer Franz Berwald in his Konzertstück for Bassoon and Orchestra ( middle section, marked Andante ).