Schweitzer rapidly gained prominence as a musical scholar and organist, dedicated also to the rescue, restoration and study of historic pipe organs.

Russian scholar Pantusov writes that the Uyghurs manufactured their own musical instruments ; they had 62 different kinds of musical instruments and in every Uyghur home there used to be an instrument called a " dutar ".

The ut – re – mi-fa-so-la syllables are taken from the initial syllables of each of the first six half-lines of the first stanza of the hymn Ut queant laxis, whose text is attributed to the Italian monk and scholar Paulus Diaconus ( though the musical line either shares a common ancestor with the earlier setting of Horace's " Ode to Phyllis " ( Odes 4. 11 ) recorded in the Montpellier manuscript H425, or may even have been taken from it.

Much later, Ming dynasty ( 1300s-1600 ) scholar Chu Tsai Yu recognized 3 groups: those instruments using muscle power or used for musical accompaniment, those that are blown, and those that are rhythmic, a scheme which was probably the 1st of scholarly type, the other earlier ones being traditional, folk taxonomies.

He was one of the founders of modern organology ( the study of musical instruments ), and is probably best remembered today for co-authoring the Sachs-Hornbostel scheme of musical instrument classification with his fellow scholar Erich von Hornbostel.

In his entry on Rota in the 1988 edition of The Concise Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Composers and Musicians, music scholar Nicholas Slonimsky described Rota as " brilliant " and stated that his musical style:

The musical scholar Moritz Hauptmann described the Mozart additions as " stucco ornaments on a marble temple ".

An ability to construct long musical paragraphs is, according to the Delius scholar Christopher Palmer, Delius's lasting debt to Wagner, from whom he also acquired a knowledge of chromatic harmonic technique, " an endlessly proliferating sensuousness of sound ".

Modern classical music scholar John Warthen Struble has contrasted American and European, concluding that the music of the United States is inherently distinct because the United States has not had centuries of musical evolution as a nation.

According to musical instrument scholar Grant O ' Brien, the inverted wrestplank is " still to be found in pianos dating from a period 150 years after death.

His " music was soon forgotten ", writes scholar Erik Levi, leaving him " an essentially peripheral figure in American musical life.

Tyagaraja began his musical training under Sri Sonthi Ramanayya, a noted music scholar, at an early age.

While Shang Yang ( the Prime Minister of Duke Xiao of Qin ) would allow rulers to listen to musical instruments rather than focus on foreign policy, Han Fei ( the Legalist scholar most admired by the First Qin Emperor, Qin Shi Huangdi ) demanded more of the wise ruler.

Bach scholar Christoph Wolff describes the work as representing " a summary of his writing for voice, not only in its variety of styles, compositional devices, and range of sonorities, but also in its high level of technical polish ... Bach's mighty setting preserved the musical and artistic creed of its creator for posterity.

Along with the precentor, the musical side of its work is led by the " Organist and Director of Music ", working with any assistant organist and organ scholar, as well as the " Honorary Keeper of the Music and Music Librarian " and, as at 2007, a " Music Development Officer ".

However, the scholar Matteo Sansone has postulated that as Leoncavallo was a notable student of French culture, and lived in Paris from 1882 to 1888, he had ample opportunity to be exposed to novel French art and musical works.

Other classes include thief (" steal " skill and high speed ), dancer ( ability to perform status-altering dances and equip ribbons, which protect against status ailments ), bard ( musical instruments as weapons and songs that alter statuses ), and scholar ( books as weapons and ' seeing ' enemy stats and properties ).

Robert Gerhard i Ottenwaelder () ( 25 September 1896 – 5 January 1970 ) was a Catalan Spanish composer and musical scholar and writer, generally known outside Catalonia as Roberto Gerhard.

His older sister Inna Obraztsova graduated Leningrad Conservatory and became a composer and lecturer of musical theory, his younger sister Victoria Lotman was a prominent cardiologist, and his third sister Lidia Lotman was a scholar of Russian literature of the second half of 19th century on staff at the Institute for Russian Literature of the Russian Academy of Science ( Pushkin House ) ( she lived in Saint-Petersburg ).

* Frederick Ouseley, composer, organist, and musical scholar.

During the 1950s, he was to continue serving at the Brazilian consular service in various capacities, in Paris as well as in Rome ; in the Italian capital, he used to participate in lively musical meetings in the home of the historian Sergio Buarque de Holanda, who was then teaching in Italy as visiting scholar.

Go was one of the four cultivated arts of the Chinese scholar gentleman, along with calligraphy, painting and playing the musical instrument guqin, and examinations of skill in those arts was used to qualify candidates for service in the bureaucracy.

Later it was the subject of a 1959 ballet by English composer Sir Malcolm Arnold and, in 1979, a Tony award-winning Broadway musical by Stephen Sondheim.

This cameo is included in the Broadway musical Camelot, and in the later film, where his name is given as " Sir Tom of Warwick ", thus supporting the claim of Thomas Malory of Newbold Revel.

Sir Walter Scott made use of these stereotypes in his novel The Bride of Lammermoor, which inspired several musical works including Lucia.

One of the bands to take this to the extreme was Crass with their release Yes Sir, I Will, a raging and almost free-form improvised musical backing over which the lyrics are shouted.

Two 20th-century Lord Chancellors, F. E. Smith ( Lord Birkenhead ) and John Simon, were undergraduates together in the 1890s, along with the sportsman C. B. Fry ; Sir Thomas Beecham was an undergraduate in 1897, though soon abandoning Oxford for his musical career.

The conductor Sir Thomas Beecham wrote that for 200 years the chorus was " the national medium of musical utterance " in Britain.

* Sir Adrian Boult ( 1889 – 1983 ), musical conductor, born in Liverpool Road.

Sir Joseph Barnby, caricature by " Leslie Ward | Spy " Sir Joseph Barnby ( 12 August 1838 – 28 January 1896 ), English musical composer and conductor, son of Thomas Barnby, an organist, was born at York.

The road is featured briefly in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows when Harry and his friends were escaping from Death Eaters, by J. K. Rowling ; The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins ; Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf ; Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw and its musical adaptation, My Fair Lady ; Saturday and Atonement by Ian McEwan ; several Sherlock Holmes stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ; the Saki story Reginald on Christmas Presents ; several stories by John Collier ; A Room with a View by E. M. Forster ; The London Eye Mystery, The Late Mr Elvesham by Herbert G. Wells by Siobhan Dowd ; The Wish House by Celia Rees ; a The Matrix-based story, Goliath by Neil Gaiman ; features often in novels by Mark Billingham and The Lonely Londoners by Sam Selvon.

The art collection contains works by William Hogarth, Thomas Gainsborough and Sir Joshua Reynolds, including a full-length portrait of Thomas Coram himself, along with musical scores by Handel including a fair copy of Messiah bequeathed in his will.

Sir Donald Francis Tovey ( 17 July 187510 July 1940 ) was a British musical analyst, musicologist, writer on music, composer, conductor and pianist.

Academy instrumentalists and musical theatre students have also performed in a series of concerts with the Academy alumnus Sir Elton John.

Penny Rimbaud performing with Last Amendment at The Vortex, Hackney, 30 November 2006 He also wrote Rocky Eyed, an extended poem attacking then prime minister Margaret Thatcher and her government following the 1982 Falklands War which was recorded as the Crass album Yes Sir, I Will, The Death of Imagination ( a ' musical drama in 4 parts '), The Diamond Signature ( published by AK Press ) and Oh America, a response to the September 11, 2001 attacks and America's subsequent War on Terror which includes the line Give us justice which is not the searing spite of revenge, peace which is not the product of war nor dependent upon it.

It is a passage in Religio Medici of Sir T. Browne, and though chiefly remarkable for its sublimity, has also a philosophical value, inasmuch as it points to the true theory of musical effects.

In 1912, actor-manager Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree proposed another collaboration between Hood and German to provide a musical production based on the life of Sir Francis Drake, but German declined the commission saying that its Elizabethan setting would merely result in his covering ground already explored in Merrie England.

Many of German's colleagues in the musical establishment did, however, find his work to be of the highest quality, including Elgar and Sir John Barbirolli.

Mackerras was succeeded as musical director by Sir Charles Groves, who was unwell and unhappy during his brief tenure in 1978 – 79.

In 2008 he returned to London's West End to originate the role of Rhett Butler in Sir Trevor Nunn's musical adaptation of Gone With The Wind.

Kertész was part of a rich musical tradition that produced fellow Hungarian conductors, János Ferencsik, Eugene Ormandy, George Szell, János Fürst, and Sir Georg Solti.

He also toured in several musicals, including Camelot as Sir Lancelot, Man of La Mancha, Rodgers and Hammerstein's South Pacific, Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel, where he portrayed Billy Bigelow, a role he also played in 1967 in a made-for-television adaptation of the musical.

Among the other musical demonstrations in the festival, a gong and a shout of “ Enya Farm Sir ” can be heard.

He played Sir Robin, in the Tony Award-winning musical directed by Mike Nichols.