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1912–79 English countertenor Deller was responsible for the revival of the alto voice in the concert hall and opera house. With his ensemble, the Deller Consort, he made many recordings of early music, and he recorded English lute-songs with Desmond Dupré. Introduction | Modern Era | Classical Personalities | Kathleen Ferrier | Modern Era | Classical ...

• Personalities
• Classical
• Modern Era
• Singer

, Manon and Samson et Dalila. He is considered by many to have been the greatest tenor of the twentieth century. Introduction | Modern Era | Classical Personalities | Alfred Deller | Modern Era | Classical ...

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• Composer
• Renaissance
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for the amateur, the book includes assessments of contemporary music and musicians that reveal opinions of the time and remain influential to the present day. Recommended Recording: Madrigals, Deller Consort, Alfred Deller (Vanguard) Introduction | Renaissance | Classical Personalities | Jean Mouton | Renaissance | Classical ...

• The Voice
• Classical
• Contemporary Classical

male alto voice, but only in the last half of the twentieth century was the countertenor (or ‘male alto’) welcomed into the opera house. After hearing the alto Alfred Deller singing in Canterbury Cathedral in 1944, Tippett remarked that the ‘centuries rolled back’. Tippett encouraged Deller to extend his repertory, which coincided with the beginning of the Baroque ...

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• Fifties
• Fifties Pop
• Fifties Singer-Songwriters
• Rhythm & Blues
• Rock
• Rockabilly
• Rock’n’Roll

William John Clifton Haley was born on 6 July 1925 in Highland Park, Detroit, and raised near Chester, Pennsylvania. His parents were both musical, and he got his first proper guitar when he was 13. Even though he was blind in one eye and shy about his disability (he later tried to distract from it with his ...

• Personalities
• Country
• Cowboys & Playboys

(Vocals, 1924–2003) Rosalie Allen was one of a number of western stars who called New York home, for despite being seemingly removed from anything remotely western, the city boasted a thriving scene. Born Julie Bedra in Pennsylvania, Allen idolized Patsy Montana and became an adept yodeller. From 1943, she was a star on New York radio. ...

• Styles & Forms
• Country
• Early & Old-Time Country

There is no distinct boundary line between the early​ and old-time country era, when the music was still relatively unshaped by the American mainstream, and the modern age, when country music’s popularity and ubiquity have made it very much a part of the mass culture. But it was in the 1920s, due to the emerging radio and ...

• Country
• Early Years of Hillbilly

In the nineteenth century, country music belonged to fireside and family, to the frontier town and the backwoods hamlet. Four decades into the twentieth, it was utterly transformed, driven headlong into the new world of the new century. First, fiddlers’ conventions and other public events provided a context of competition and offered the musician the chance ...