id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 39925 Ford, Ernest A Short History of English Music .txt text/plain 66006 3121 64 the complex state of music existing in England at the present time. wars of the Roses--Early perfection of sacred music--Difficult times work, which remains to-day, as the highest type of Church music, of The music was composed by the three most celebrated English musicians The fact that there is comparatively little of old-time music extant is loss of music to the English in those early Calvinistic times must have successful sacred work produced in England up to the time of Sir Edward effect of his oratorios--English music festivals and foreign people who may be found in England to-day, possessed of no ear for music The long association, musically, of Sir Charles Hallé, and the great original music, which he scored, it may be said, at a time of great the art of music, on the part of the English people. the art of music, on the part of the English people. ./cache/39925.txt ./txt/39925.txt