Charles Wesley, 1707-1788.Notes from Dr. Julian's Hymnology: Charles Wesley was the great hymn writer of the Wesley family — perhaps, taking quantity and quality into consideration, the great hymn-writer of all ages. He was the youngest son and 18th. child of Samuel and Susanna Wesley,...
1837London, England son of hymnist Charles Wesley, Samuel is known mainly as a composer and organist. His wrote his first oratorio, Ruth, at age 8. A highly regarded musician in his time, he nevertheless enjoyed little financial success. He was a great admirer of Bach, and was one of ...
Charles Wesley, English clergyman, poet, and hymn writer, who, with his elder brother John, started the Methodist movement in the Church of England. He published more than 4,500 hymns and left some 3,000 in manuscript; George Frideric Handel wrote music
It contained texts written mostly by 18th-century British clergymen, such as Isaac Watts and Charles Wesley, but also included a number of poems by Black American Richard Allen—the founder of the African Methodist Episcopal Church—and his parishioners. The volume contained no music, however, ...
“Here We Go Again,” a duet withRay Charlesthat appeared on his final studio album,Genius Loves Company(2004). The release...Featuring Norah Jones(2010) was a collection of that and other such collaborations. She andBillie Joe ArmstrongofGreen Dayrecorded a duet album,Foreverly(2013), ...
jazz: The mainstream enlarged: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Charles Mingus, and others During this period Coltrane developed what came to be known as his “sheets of sound” approach to improvisation, as described by poet LeRoi Jones (laterAmiri Baraka): “The notes that Trane was playing in ...
Henry Box Brown was an American enslaved person who succeeded in escaping slavery by hiding in a packing crate that was shipped from the slave state of Virginia, where Brown had worked on a plantation and in a tobacco factory, to the free state of Pennsy
textures, rhythms, and compositional forms translated his often subtle, often complex perceptions into a body of music unequaled in jazz history.Charles Ivesis perhaps his onlyrivalfor the title of the greatest American composer. Ellington’s autobiography,Music Is My Mistress,was published in 1973...
The principalimpetusto English hymnody came in the late 17th century from the Independent (Congregationalist) hymn writerIsaac Watts(Hymns and Spiritual Songs;1705–19). The evangelical revival of the mid-18th century underJohnandCharles Wesley, founders ofMethodism, finally established hymnody in Eng...
In 1836 Longfellow returned to Harvard and settled in the famous Craigie House, which was later given to him as a wedding present when he remarried in 1843. His travel sketches,Outre-Mer(1835), did not succeed. In 1839 he publishedVoices of the Night, which contained the poems “Hymn to...