• Gerald Ernest Heal Abraham, CBE, FBA (9 March 1904 – 18 March 1988) was an English musicologist, editor and music critic. He was particularly respected...
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  • Gerald Abrahams (15 April 1907 – 15 March 1980) was an English chess player, author, and barrister. This article uses algebraic notation to describe chess...
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  • the Renaissance (1300–1540) (ed. Gerald Abraham, Anselm Hughes, 1960) The Age of Humanism (1540–1630) (ed. Gerald Abraham, 1968) Opera and Church Music (1630–1750)...
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    Bare Mountain music which Mussorgsky prepared for Sorochintsy Fair. — Gerald Abraham, musicologist and an authority on Mussorgsky, 1945 It is through Rimsky-Korsakov's...
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  • Gerald Abraham (born July 4, 1965) is a former American football player who played running back & fullback professionally for the Denver Broncos, Philadelphia...
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    Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. (born Leslie Lynch King Jr.; July 14, 1913 – December 26, 2006) was the 38th president of the United States, serving from 1974...
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    associated with the name "Mighty Handful", or sometimes "The Five". Gerald Abraham stated flatly in the Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians that "they...
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    design for the décor of a picturesque scene in the ballet Trilby." Gerald Abraham provides the following details: "Trilby or The Demon of the Heath, a...
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    for his stage pageant in a comparable way to Humperdinck in Hansel. Gerald Abraham, on the other hand, praises the vivid humanity and humour of Rimsky's...
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    2011, p.4 Available on You Tube Abraham, Gerald. 1947. "The Symphonies". In The Music of Sibelius, edited by Gerald Abraham. New York: W. W. Norton. British...
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    reply. "Eloquent pauses", in von Lenz's words. "Absurd silences", for Gerald Abraham. Barry Cooper sees it as a humorous piece, in which Beethoven "seems...
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    after the premiere, views on Mussorgsky's music changed drastically. Gerald Abraham, a musicologist, and an authority on Mussorgsky: "As a musical translator...
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    figures such as Arnold Bennett and Ralph Vaughan Williams, his colleague Gerald Abraham remarked that "he never enjoyed the influence and authority in London...
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    ISBN 978-0-333-23111-1. Abraham, Gerald, Studies in Russian Music (London: William Reeves/The New Temple Press, 1936). ISBN n/a. Abraham, Gerald. Rimsky-Korsakov:...
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    Thoreau Fagundes Varela Wilhelm Heinrich Wackenroder William Wordsworth Gerald Abraham M. H. Abrams Donald Ault Jacques Barzun Frederick C. Beiser Ian Bent...
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    Clapham (1972), pp. 28–30 Large, pp. 84–94 Large, pp. 95–97 According to Gerald Abraham, Smetana had met Cornelius at Weimar two years previously, while the...
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    even banned Scriabin's music from broadcasts in the 1930s. In 1935, Gerald Abraham called Scriabin a "sad pathological case, erotic and egotistic to the...
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    University Press. pp. 348–349. Cooper, Martin (1946). "The Symphonies". In Gerald Abraham (ed.). Music of Tchaikovsky. New York: W. W. Norton. OCLC 385829. Druckenbrod...
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     6 as a synthesis of many influences, or as the focus of just a few. Gerald Abraham writes, "...he had recognizable affinities with all three of the principal...
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  • by lectures and other appropriate instruction". The first holder was Gerald Abraham, who had been director of the BBC's Gramophone Department. The chair...
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    analysed in many different ways. Sibelian scholars – Cecil Gray (1935), Gerald Abraham (1947), Simon Parmet (1955), Robert Layton (1965), and James Hepokoski...
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    conductor Denis Vaughan c. 1960. More recently, British musicologists Gerald Abraham and Brian Newbould have also offered completions of the symphony (scherzo...
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    where Craig Burnett threw for 3,131 yards with 21 TD vs 16 INT and Gerald Abraham ran for 1,305 yards with 13 TD. In 1988, Randy Welniak threw for 2,791...
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    List of Works, p. 279 ed. Abraham, Gerald, Music of Tchaikovsky (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1946). ISBN n/a. Abraham, Gerald, "Operas and Incidental...
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    Dent, Edward J.; Sternfeld, F.W. (1968). "ch. XIV Music and Drama". In Gerald Abraham (ed.). The New Oxford History of Music, vol. IV The Age of Humanism...
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    Music of Tchaikovsky (New York, W. W. Norton & Company, 1946), ed. Gerald Abraham. ISBN n/a. Tchaikovsky Research MP3 files of excerpts from the 4 movements...
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  • physicist Emanuel M. Abrahams (1866–1913), American businessman and politician Esther Abrahams (1771–1846), English criminal Gerald Abrahams (1907–1980), British...
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  • British writers on music of the time. Regular contributors included Gerald Abraham, Eric Blom, Dmitri Calvocoressi, Eaglefield Hull, Alfred Kalmus, Basil...
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    expressiveness, Taneyev's music could also show a whimsical streak. Gerald Abraham writes, "Taneyev had a dual nature rather like Lewis Carroll's, half...
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  • vol. 3: Ars Nova and the Renaissance, 1300–1540, ed. Anselm Hughes & Gerald Abraham (London, 1960), pp. 82–106 & 303–348. "Faburden in Practice", in: Musica...
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