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Classic Cat: Palestrina - Directory of free Palestrina mp3s on the internet that have been made available by their performing artists. Classical Music Archives: Palestrina - Biography from the Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music. Over 50 complete files offered in MIDI format. ClassiNet: Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina - Picture, biographical note. Giovanni Palestrina (c. 1525-1594) - Message board and live chat about life and works. Giovanni Pierluigi Da Palestrina - Biography from the Here Of A Sunday Morning radio program with portraits. Shows his devotion to the traditional music of the church while opening it up to new forms and influences. Includes related material and discography. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina - Biography and hymn music from Cyber Hymnal with links to specific pieces and accompanying MIDI audio, including The Strife Is Over, the Battle Won. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina - Article emphasizing his place in Roman Catholic music and the smooth, worshipful style of his compositions. Includes MIDI audio samples. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1525-1594) - Brief biographical sketch, caricature, summary of his various types of church music, and Naxos discography. ~Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1525?-1594) - Research bibliography; links. by Russell McNeil. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (ca. 1525-1594) - Focusing on his church music, this essay from WICR radio examines his life, the style and substance of his compositions, and provides explanations of musical terms. Giovanni Pierluigi Palestrina (c.1525-1594) - Karadar dictionary entry with life, appointments, influence, comparison to his peers, and MIDI audio samples. Kunst der Fuge: G.P. da Palestrina - The Missas in MIDI files (20~) and links. Palestrina, Collected Works - (online order: microfilm) Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi da - Catholic Encyclopedia biography calls him the all-time greatest liturgical music composer. Emphasis on his work to support the reforms of the Council of Trent and the Counter Reformation. Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi da - Essay providing overview of his life and music compares him with Lassus and Byrd and reckons him their equal. Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi da (c. 1525 - 1594), Italy - Biographical data, major works, background information, links to purchase recommended CDs, books, and sheet music, bibliography, and links to biographical essays from Dr. Estrella's Incredibly Abridged Dictionary of Composers. Palestrina: Prince of Music - Brief biography, portriat, key works, recommended recordings, and historical and societal context from Humanities Web. A Site For MIDI Lovers: Pope Marcellus Mass - [performance MIDI files] St. Patrick's Palestrina Colle

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Art Songs by Sir Hubert Parry - Listing of various lieder with the authors and texts for which he wrote the various tunes. Charles Hubert Hastings Parry - Brief biography; several MIDI files of hymn tunes. Classical Music Archives: Parry - Music files offered in MIDI format. Hubert Parry (1848-1918) - Biographical sketch with family background, friendships, marriage, and education, caricature, summaries of church, choral and vocal, and orchestral music, and Naxos discography. The Musical Times: Charles Hubert Hastings Parry 1848-1918 - Archived memorial from November 1918 includes comprehensive biography with personal recollections and analysis of the factors that kept him from achieving even greater fame. Organ Composers: Charles Hubert Hastings Parry - Biography, portrait, points of interest, and list of organ works from the Brigham Young University School of Music. Parry, Sir Charles Hubert Hastings - Listing from the Grove Concise Dictionary of Music at WQXR radio includes life, teaching and administrative positions and offices, and notable works. Sir Charles Hubert Hastings Parry - Filmography at IMDb lists movies using his compositions. Sir Charles Hubert Hastings Parry - Classical Net biography noting his often unrecognized importance in English music, links to related composers, including students, and portrait. Sir Charles Hubert Hastings Parry - Classical Composers Database entry compares his style with that of others, including Wagner, Brahms, and Dvorak while noting the influence he had on Elgar, Vaughan Williams, and Holst. Sir Charles Hubert Hastings Parry (1848-1918) - Karadar dictionary entry with life, teachers and influences, related composers, noted students, and posterity. Sir Charles Hubert Hastings Parry Ushers in a New Era in English Composition - Brief biography, timeline, key works, quotes, and historical and societal context from Humanities Web.

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Byzantines.net: St. Patrick - St. Patrick's Breastplate, Liturgical stichera, Apolytikion and the Kontakion. Catholic Encyclopedia: St. Patrick - Lengthy biographical article on the Apostle of Ireland. Catholic Online: Saint Patrick - Short illustrated biography. Domestic Church: Saint Patrick - Two original accounts of the life of St. Patrick: for children ages 0-8, and children 8-14. Illustrated. The Ecole Glossary: Patrick of Ireland - Brief sketch of St. Patrick, by April Blazevic. Hymn on the Life of St. Patrick - Story of St. Patrick told in verse. Translated from Old Irish. Written sometime between fifth and eighth centuries, by Fiacc. Ireland's Church Planter--St. Patrick - Short version of Ralph F. Wilson's "Will the Real St. Patrick Please Stand Up?" Irish Opposition to "Pagan" Statute of St. Patrick - March, 1997, article about Irish opposition to replacing a traditional statue of St. Patrick at Tara with a modern sculpture of a "bald man in a mini-skirt". ~James Kiefer's Christian Biographies: Patrick of Ireland - Anglican perspective. Includes the Lorica (Breastplate of St. Patrick), as well as the prayer for his feast day in traditional Anglican and contemporary language. The Legends of Saint Patrick - By Aubrey De Vere. Ancient stories, and the saint's own "Confession," rendered as English verse. Includes biographical introduction by the editor. Available in several formats. At Project Gutenberg. Patrick - Illustrated profile of the Apostle of Ireland. Patrick, Saint - Biographical essay in the Columbia Encyclopedia. Includes bibliography. Placing St. Patrick in Context - Brief extract from "A Retreat with Patrick," by Timothy Joyce, on the historical situation in which Patrick's mission to Ireland occurred. Saint Patrick, Apostle of Ireland - From the book "Lives of Saints," published by John J. Crawley. Saint Patrick of Ireland - Detailed biography of St. Patrick, his prayers, links to related topics. St. Patrick - A short biography. St. Patrick and Sainthood - Brief biography of St. Patrick, discussion of how someone becomes a saint. St. Patrick, Bishop, Confessor, Apostle of Ireland - Hagiography, from Alban Butler's Lives of the Saints. St. Patrick in His Own Words - Short essay by Pat Friend, on what St. Patrick's surviving writings tell us about his character. The St. Patrick You Never Knew - A special St. Anthony Messenger feature on the real St. Patrick, and his significance today. St. Patrick's Day: The History - Brief biography of St. Patrick. The Story of St. Patrick in Stone - Photos of the altar of St. Patrick's Church, Donabate, Ireland. With brief explanation. Vietnamese Eucharistic Youth Society: St. Patrick - Short biography, suitable for children. Virtual Pilgrimage - A personal account of a visit to Croagh Patrick, the site where St. Patrick fasted and prayed in Ireland in 441 A.D. If you are using Netscape, site automatically plays QuickTime music and movie. Was St. Patrick Catholic? - Biographical essay on St. Patrick, by James Akin, with quotes from the saint's writings. Will the Real St. Patrick Please Stand Up? - Essay on the "exuberant faith and steadfast character" of the historical St. Patrick, by Ralph F. Wilson.

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The Alexander Pope Page - From San Antonio College LitWeb, includes links to selected verse on-line. ~The Gender Fallacy - Essay at Rutgers University by William Dowling which uses Pope's "Eloisa to Abelard" to study the issue of gender identification by authors, specifically that involved in late 20th century feminist criticism. ~The Life of Pope - Biography of Pope by Samuel Johnson in Johnson's text "The Lives of the Poets." ~Reflections on Pope and the Gardens at Stowe. - Essay on Pope, the Stowe School, and Stowe Gardens.

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Cyber Hymnal: Michael Praetorius - Biographical note, 2 MIDI hymns. Michael Praetorius - Repertoire entry from the San Francisco Bach Choir: Provides biography, historical context, positions and appointments, influences, and posterity. Michael Praetorius - Biography from the Here Of A Sunday Morning radio program with outline of his musical heritage and life. Includes major compositions, theoretical books, partial discography, and link to Renaissance dance music. Michael Praetorius (1571-1621) - Brief biographical sketch, caricature, summaries of church and instrumental music, and Naxos discography. Michael Praetorius (1571-1621): Music from Terpsichore - Hyperion Records sleeve notes provide biographical background, dedication to church music, and focuses on the collection of dances that he revised, edited, and presented to German audiences. Micheal Praetorius (1571 - 1621) - Karadar dictionary entry with life summary and highlights, portrait, facsimiles of two treatises, and MIDI audio samples. Praetorius, Michael - Grove Concise Dictionary of Music entry at WQXR radio shows his place among his peers, notes his major secular and sacred compositions, and comments on his theory books. Syntagma Musicum - Partial e-text of medieval music theory text.

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· Classic Cat: Purcell - Directory of mp3s on the internet that have been made available by their performing artists.

· Classical Music Archives: Purcell - Biography from the Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music. Over 80 files offered in MIDI, MP3, and Windows Media audio formats, including live recordings of featured artists.

· Henry Purcell - Filmography at IMDb lists motion pictures using or based on his works.

· Henry Purcell - Entry from the Grove Concise Dictionary of Music at the Classical Music Pages. Includes life, posts, titles, and offices held, comments on style, noted works, and portrait.

· Henry Purcell - Biography noting unsolved proof of parentage and early life, portraits, related composers, partial discography from the Here of a Sunday Morning radio program.

· Henry Purcell (1659-1695) - Karadar dictionary entry with life, MIDI audio samples, list of operas with libretti for Dido and Aeneas and The Indian Queen, plus catalogue.

· Henry Purcell (1659-1695) - Message board and live chat about the life and works.

· Henry Purcell (1659-1695) - Biographical sketch, caricature, summaries of stage works and various types of music, and Naxos discography.

· Henry Purcell: a concise biography - Portrait, life and work, at Court, the Chapel Royal, his Theater Music, Odes, and chamber music for London Music Societies. Music samples.

· Henry Purcell: Composer of the First Great English Opera - Biography, suggested reading, timeline, key works, recommended recordings, Purcell quotes, and links from Humanities Web.

· Henry Purcell Lyrics - Texts, lyrics, and librettos from Dido and Aeneas, Indian Queen, and his Odes and Welcome Songs.

· Henry Purcell: Music for the London Theatre - Incidental Theatre Music for Distressed Innocence, Abdelazer, Amphitryon, Fairy Queen, and chamber music. Accademia Monteverdiana. CD information plus music samples.

· Henry Purcell: Nine Trio Sonatas (1697) - Nine Trio Sonatas from the 1697 set of 10. CD $8.95. Detailed content description and music samples. Baroque Music Club BMC 9. Pini, Tunnell, Lester.

· Henry Purcell: Odes, Anthems, Fantasias. Deller Consort CD. - CD illustration, biography, and music samples.

· Purcell Works List - (by Lewis Morton)

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