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BARDY.
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Bardy Brenin 26-L-1
Bardy Brenin, sec Jones, Edward.
Bardy Brenin, see Jones, Edward.
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Barham, Thomas Foster 26-L-2
Barham, Thomas Foster, musician and
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writer, born at Bedford, October 8, 1766, died
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at Leskinnick, near Penzance, February 25,
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1844. He wrote on theological topics ; sacred
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dramas and poems ; and Musical meditations,
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consisting of original compositions, vocal and
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instrumental, London, 1811; and edited and
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arranged Pergolesi's Stabat Mater, with Eng-
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lish words (1829).
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Barker, George Arthur 26-L-11
Barker, Qeorge Arthur, composer and
Barker, George Arthur, composer and
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tenor singer, was born on April 15, 1812. He
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sang in opera in London and the provinces,
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and gave concerts in various parts of the
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country. He died at Aylstone, near Leicester,
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March 2, 1876.
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Works. — Ballad Album, twelve books, Lon-
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don [1853] . Songs of the army and navy
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[1855] , issued in numbers. Single songs and
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ballads: Aline O'Neal; Dublin Bay; Ellen
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Astore; Emigrant's bride ; Emigrant's child;
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Excelsior; Fare thee well, my gentle Mary;
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Irish emigrant ("I'm sitting by the stile,"
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words by Lady Dufferin), London [1846];
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Irish peasant; Kate Connor; Lesson of the
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Water mill ; Mabel Gray ; Mary ! avourneen ;
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Mary Blane [1846]; Mountain Flower; My
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native mountain home ; My skiff is on the
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shore ; Nellie and I ; Return of the emigrant ;
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'Sands of gold; Scottish blue bells ("Let the
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proud Indian boast ") ; Song of the silent land ;
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Take back the ivy leaf; White squall [1835];
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Wreck of the emigrant ship, etc. Why do
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summer roses fade ? quartet ; waltzes for pf .
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and other instrumental music.
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Barker is best remembered by his three
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songs, " Irish emigrant," " Scottish blue
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bells," and " White squall," which alone sur-
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vive out of the large number he composed.
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Barker, Laura W 26-L-40
Barker, Laura W., see Taylor, Mrs. Tom.
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Barnard, Mrs. Charles, "Claribel" 26-L-41
Barnard, Mrs. Charles, (6orw Charlotte
Barnard, Mrs. Charles, (born Charlotte
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Alington), "Claribel," amateur song-wri-
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ter, born December 23, 1830; married Mr.
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Charles C. Barnard, 1854. She studied music
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under W. H. Holmes. She died at Dover,
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January 30, 1869.
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Works. — Songs : All along the valley ;
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Answer to the dream ; Bell's whisper ; Blind
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Alice ; Blue Ribbon ; Broken Sixpence ; The
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Brook ; By the blue Alsatian mountains ;
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Children's voices ; Come back to Erin ; Do
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you remember ? ; Dreamland ; Drifting ; Pare-
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well to Erin ; Far away in bonnie Scotland ;
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Five o'clock in the morning; Friends for ever ;
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Friendship and love ; Golden days ; Half-mast
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high; Hussar's parting; I cannot sing the old
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songs ; I leaned out of the window ; I remem-
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ber it ; Jamie ; Janet's bridal ; Janet's choice ;
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Kathleen's answer; The life-boat; Lowland
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Mary ; Maggie's secret ; Maggie's welcome ; My
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brilliant and I ; Norah's treasure ; Old house
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on the hill ; Only a year ago ; Out at sea ; Rid-
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ing thro' the iSroom; Sailor Boy; Susan's

BARNBY.
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story; Tell it not; Through the Jessamine;
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Walter's wooing; When I was young and fair;
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Won't you tell me why, Robin ; Vocal duets,
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trios, quartets. Pianoforte pieces, etc.
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Thoughts, verses, and songs, 1877. Of the
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songs composed by Mrs. Barnard, under the
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name of Claribel, only a few survive.
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Barnard, Rev. John 26-R-8
Barnard, Rev. John, divine, published a
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"Book of Psalms, together with Fifty Tunes
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to sing them, neatly engraved on copper-
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j)lates." 1727, "A New version of the Psalms
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of David, fitted to the Tunes used in the
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Churches." Boston (U.S.A.), 1752.
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Barnard, Rev. John 26-R-14
Barnard, Rev. John, divine, who lived
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during the 16th and 17th centuries. He was
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Miiaor-canon of St. Paul's Cathedral in the
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time of Charles I.
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Barnard is famed as having been the first to
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issue a collection of Cathedral music. His
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collection of " Cathedral Music " appeared in
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1641, and contains services, anthems, etc., by
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Tallis, Gibbons, Mundy (W.), Parsons, Bird,
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Morley, Tye, Bull, etc. The only perfect copy
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of this work is contained in the library of
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Hereford Cathedral. Its title is, "The First
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Book of Selected Church Music, consisting of
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Services and Anthems, such as are now used
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in the cathedral and collegiate churches of
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this kingdom ; never before printed, whereby
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such Books as were heretofore, with much
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difficulty and charges, transcribed for the
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use of the Quire, are now, to the saving
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of much Labour and Expense, published for
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the general good of all such as shall desire
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them either for public or private exercise.
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Collected out of divers approved Authors, by
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J. B." London, 1641.
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Barnby, Sir Joseph, Kt. 26-R-38
Barnby, Sir Joseph, Kt., composer and
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conductor, born in York, August 12, 1838.
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Chorister in York Minster at age of seven;
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began teaching when ten ; was an organist at
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twelve ; and music master at a school when
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fourteen. At the age of sixteen he went
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to London, and entered the R.A.M., living
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with his brother Robert (q-v.), a vicar-choral
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of Westminster Abbey. Soon after his ap-
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pointment as organist of Mitcham Parish
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Church, he was called back to York, whei-e he
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remained four years. Then he was organist
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at St. Michael's, Queenhithe; St. James the
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Less, Westminster ; and, in 1863, was appointed
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to St. Andrew's, Wells Street. There it was
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he acquired and exercised the influence that
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was to work such develox3ments in the Choral
was to work such developments in the Choral
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Services of the Church. At the Dedication
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Festival (St. Andrew's Day) of 1866, his adap-
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tation of Gou.nod's Messe Solennelle (St.
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Cecilia) was performed, and the harp in-
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troduced. He conducted a performance of
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Bach's Passion-Music (St. Matthew) at West-
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minster Abbey, Maunday Thursday (Aj^ril 6)
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1871, with full chorus and orchestra — a memo-
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rable event in the history of church music in


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