"opening phrase of ""Rule, Britannia!"" in his choral work ""The Music Makers"", based on Arthur O'Shaughnessy's ""Ode"" at the line ""We fashion an empire's glory"", where he also quotes ""La Marseillaise"". Rule, Britannia! ""Rule, Britannia!"" is a British patriotic song, originating from the poem ""Rule, Britannia"" by James Thomson and set to music by Thomas Arne in 1740. It is strongly associated with the Royal Navy, but also used by the British Army. This British national air was originally included in ""Alfred"", a masque about Alfred the Great co-written by Thomson and David Mallet and first performed at Cliveden, country"
"Garden, London. A blue plaque, unveiled in 1988, commemorates Arne at 31 King Street in Covent Garden. Thomas Arne Thomas Augustine Arne (; 12 March 1710, London – 5 March 1778, London) was an English composer. He is best known for his patriotic song ""Rule Britannia"", a version of ""God Save the King"", which became the British national anthem, and the song ""A-Hunting We Will Go"". Arne was a leading British theatre composer of the 18th century, working at Drury Lane and Covent Garden. Arne was born to a Church of England father and a Roman Catholic mother in Covent"
"Thomas Arne Thomas Augustine Arne (; 12 March 1710, London – 5 March 1778, London) was an English composer. He is best known for his patriotic song ""Rule Britannia"", a version of ""God Save the King"", which became the British national anthem, and the song ""A-Hunting We Will Go"". Arne was a leading British theatre composer of the 18th century, working at Drury Lane and Covent Garden. Arne was born to a Church of England father and a Roman Catholic mother in Covent Garden, and baptised at St Paul's, Covent Garden. Arne's father and grandfather were both upholsterers and both"
"patronage of the arts is ""Rule, Britannia!"", one of the best-known British patriotic songs. It was composed by the English composer Thomas Arne and written by the Scottish poet and playwright James Thomson as part of the masque ""Alfred"" which was first performed on 1 August 1740 at Cliveden, the country home of the Prince and Princess of Wales. Thomas Arne was also one of Frederick's favourite artists. A masque linking the Prince with both the medieval hero-king Alfred the Great's victories over the Vikings and with the contemporary issue of building up the British sea power obviously went well"
"anglaises"" for organ Op. 43, where he also makes use of the song ""Home! Sweet Home!"". Arthur Sullivan, perhaps Britain's most popular composer during the reign of Queen Victoria, quoted from ""Rule, Britannia!"" on at least three occasions in music for his comic operas written with W. S. Gilbert and Bolton Rowe. In ""Utopia Limited"", Sullivan used airs from ""Rule, Britannia!"" to highlight references to Great Britain. In ""The Zoo"" (written with Rowe) Sullivan applied the tune of ""Rule, Britannia!"" to an instance in which Rowe's libretto quotes directly from the patriotic march. Finally, to celebrate the jubilee of Queen"
"2011, 2013, 2014, and 2015. ""Rule, Britannia!"" has been given a place in the programme in its own right, and was still performed in the years in which the full ""Fantasia"" was omitted.. ""Rule, Britannia!"" was originally included in the ""Fantasia"", but for many years up to the 2000 it had been performed in an arrangement by Sir Malcolm Sargent, with a noted opera singer to encourage the audience to sing the refrain. From 2002 to 2007, the BBC reverted to the original arrangement that Sir Henry Wood made for the ""Fantasia"", performing just one verse with chorus for audience"
"Cool Britannia Cool Britannia was a period of increased pride in the culture of the United Kingdom throughout most of the 1990s, inspired by 1960s pop culture. The success of Britpop and musical acts such as the Spice Girls, Blur, Oasis and Pulp led to a renewed feeling of optimism in the United Kingdom following the tumultuous years of the 1970s and 1980s. The name is a pun on the title of the British patriotic song ""Rule, Britannia!"". The phrase ""Cool Britannia"" was first used in 1967 as a song title by the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band. The phrase"
"Bert L. Rule Bert L. Rule ""(né"" Albert Lyman Rule; 12 August 1891 Brooklyn; – 17 August 1978 East Patchogue, New York) was an American composer, arranger, singer, and pianist of popular songs of Tin Pan Alley and the vaudeville genre. Rule composed and published his music, some of which became national hits, from 1913 to 1934. He worked in publishing houses, namely M. Witmark & Sons and performed in vaudeville theaters throughout the country roughly during the same period. In 1918 and 1919, while under contract with M. Witmark & Sons, Rule performed vaudeville shows with lyricist J. Keirn"
"""Rule, Britannia!"". During the various solos, the performing artist often ""ad libbed"" their own variation on the melody and various parts of the ""Fantasia"" were often repeated at the request of the audience, whose participation was usually encouraged by light-hearted mockery on the part of the conductor. Fantasia on British Sea Songs Fantasia on British Sea Songs or Fantasy on British Sea Songs is a medley of British sea songs arranged by Sir Henry Wood in 1905 to mark the centenary of the Battle of Trafalgar. For many years it was seen as an indispensable item at the BBC's Last"
"1740, ""Rule, Britannia!"" (an aria by the English composer Thomas Arne) was first performed in public in the cliff-side amphitheatre at Cliveden. It was played as part of a masque to celebrate the third birthday of the Prince's daughter Augusta. It is believed that it was while playing cricket in the grounds at Cliveden in 1751 that the Prince received a blow to the chest from a batted ball—it had been thought this caused an infection which proved fatal, but it is now believed he died from a cold followed by a pulmonary embolism After his death, Frederick's family retained"
"as Charles Dibdin and his family and its influence can be seen in light operas like those of Gilbert and Sullivan's, particularly their early works like ""The Sorcerer"" (1877). In the eighteenth century the increasing availability of instruments such as the harpsichord, spinet and later the piano, and cheap print meant that works created for opera and the theatre were often published for private performance, with Thomas Arne's (1710–78) song ""Rule Britannia"" (1740) probably the best-known. From the 1730s elegant concert halls began to be built across the country and attendance rivalled that of the theatre, facilitating visits by figures"
"Donizetti used the theme in his opera ""Anna Bolena"" (1830) Act 2, Scene 3 as part of Anna's Mad Scene to underscore her longing for her childhood home. It is also used with Sir Henry Wood's ""Fantasia on British Sea Songs"" and in Alexandre Guilmant's ""Fantasy for organ"" Op. 43, the ""Fantaisie sur deux mélodies anglaises"", both of which also use ""Rule, Britannia!"". In 1857 composer/pianist Sigismond Thalberg wrote a series of variations for piano (op. 72) on the theme of ""Home! Sweet Home!"". In 1909, it was featured in the silent film ""The House of Cards"", an Edison Studios"
"Britannia"", written as part of that masque and set to music by Thomas Arne, became one of the best-known British patriotic songs – quite apart from the masque which is now virtually forgotten. The Prince gave him a pension of £100 per annum. He had also introduced him to George Lyttelton, who became his friend and patron. In later years, Thomson lived in Richmond upon Thames, and it was there that he wrote his final work ""The Castle of Indolence"", which was published just before his untimely death on 27 August 1748. Johnson writes about Thomson's death, ""by taking cold"
"Britons, Strike Home! Britons, Strike Home! is a British patriotic song, originally an air written for a theatrical production by Henry Purcell in 1695. It was popular during the various wars of the 18th and early 19th centuries. In the last year of Purcell's life, he wrote the music for an October 1695 adaptation of John Fletcher's tragedy, ""Bonduca"", called ""Bonduca, or the British Heroine"". Purcell's score has the ""Z number"" Z 574 and ranks amongst his finest music for the theatre, In the play, the Ancient British general, Charatach is trying to rouse the army of Queen Bonduca against"
"James Thomson (poet, born 1700) James Thomson (c. 11 September 1700 – 27 August 1748) was a British poet and playwright, known for his poems ""The Seasons"" and ""The Castle of Indolence"", and for the lyrics of ""Rule, Britannia!"". James Thomson was born in Ednam in Roxburghshire around 11 September 1700 and baptised on 15 September. He was the fourth of nine children of Thomas Thomson and Beatrix Thomson (née Trotter). Beatrix Thomson was born in Fogo, Berwickshire and was a distant relation of the house of Hume. Thomas Thomson was the Presbyterian minister of Ednam until eight weeks after"
"Stanley Myers Stanley Myers (6 October 19309 November 1993) was a British film composer who scored over sixty films. He is best known for his guitar piece ""Cavatina"". Myers was born in Birmingham, Warwickshire, England; as a teenager he went to King Edward's School in Edgbaston, a suburb of Birmingham. Myers wrote incidental music for television: for example, The Reign of Terror, a 1964 serial in the television series ""Doctor Who""; the theme to ""All Gas and Gaiters""; and the theme for the BBC's ""Question Time"". He is known for composing music for the cult horror films ""House of Whipcord"","
"John Lunn John Lunn (born May 13, 1956) is a Scottish composer, known for his soundtrack work for television. He was formerly a member of ""systems music"" band Man Jumping. His work includes music for the television series ""Hamish Macbeth"" (1995), ""Lorna Doone"" (2000), ""North Square"" (2000), ""Hotel Babylon"" (2006), ""Little Dorrit"" (2008), ""Downton Abbey"" (2010), ""Waking the Dead"" (2011), ""The White Queen"" (2013), ""Grantchester"" (2014), and ""The Last Kingdom"" (2015)"". His music for Sky TV's ""Going Postal"" was winner of Best TV Score in the 2010 RTS Awards and was nominated for a BAFTA and an Ivor Novello award"
"Howard Shore Howard Leslie Shore (born October 18, 1946) is a Canadian composer who is notable for his film scores. He has composed the scores for over 80 films, most notably the scores for ""The Lord of the Rings"" and ""The Hobbit"" film trilogies. He won three Academy Awards for his work on the first trilogy, with one being for the original song ""Into the West"", an award he shared with Eurythmics lead vocalist Annie Lennox and writer/producer Fran Walsh, who wrote the lyrics. He is also a consistent collaborator with director David Cronenberg, having scored all but one of"
"2012 - 2016 released 22 albums: Credited as a composer 25 times in movies and TV series: Dexter Britain Dexter Britain (born July 13, 1989) is a self-taught pianist, composer, producer and songwriter. Best known for his standout piece, ""The Time To Run (Finale)"". He has fast become a name in soundtrack composition. His work has been used more than 11 000 times and features in projects from commercials, and feature films, to charity videos, and weddings. Among his clients are G-Tech, GoPro, World Health Organization, NASA, O2, Jason Silva (Shots of Awe, Future Of Us), TEDx, Kelloggs, Nike, BVLGARI,"
"With Gary Burton Bob James (musician) Robert McElhiney James (born December 25, 1939) is an American Grammy Award-winning jazz keyboardist, arranger, and record producer. He founded the band Fourplay and wrote ""Angela,"" the theme song for the TV show ""Taxi. ""He is most famous for standards such as ""Nautilus"", ""Westchester Lady"", ""Heads"", ""Night Crawler"", ""Touchdown"", ""Blue Lick"", ""Sign Of the Times"", ""Spunky"", ""Marco Polo"", ""Courtship"" and ""Just One Thing"". Music from his first seven albums has often been sampled and has contributed to the formation of hip hop. Robert McElhiney James was born on Christmas Day 1939 in Marshall, Missouri"
"10:36 a.m. with a programme of music known as ""the Traditional Music"", a sequence beginning with ""Rule Britannia!"" which has remained largely unchanged since 1930. This comprises a selection of National Airs and solemn music representing the four nations of the United Kingdom performed by the massed bands of the Household Division interposed Pipes and Drums from the Highlanders 4th Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland. The massed band represents the four nations; the Band of the Grenadier Guards, Band of the Coldstream Guards, Band of the Scots Guards and the Band of the Irish Guards. As the band plays"
"at #36 in May 1997. He has also provided DVD commentaries on several of the series in which he has been involved. Many of Johnson's works have since become stock music for a number of animated series, including ""SpongeBob SquarePants"" and ""Ren And Stimpy"". Johnson was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2014 Birthday Honours for services to music. Laurie Johnson Laurence Reginald Ward Johnson, (born 7 February 1927) is an English composer and bandleader who has written scores for dozens of film and television series and has been one of the most highly"
"of the British Empire (MBE) by Queen Elizabeth II in the 2013 Birthday Honours for services to music. PJ Harvey Polly Jean Harvey, MBE (born 9 October 1969) known as PJ Harvey, is an English musician, singer-songwriter, writer, poet and composer. Primarily known as a vocalist and guitarist, she is also proficient with a wide range of instruments. Harvey began her career in 1988 when she joined local band Automatic Dlamini as a vocalist, guitarist and saxophone player. The band's frontman, John Parish, would become her long-term collaborator. In 1991, she formed an eponymous trio and subsequently began her professional"
"spent most of his adult life in England and hoped to make his fortune at Court. He had an interest in helping foster a British identity, including and transcending the older English and Scottish identities. In its original form, ""Alfred"" contained only seven musical numbers, including the famous patriotic song ""Rule, Britannia!"" With successive additions, Arne significantly expanded the music, and the final version was an all-sung opera in three acts. Today, the third and final version of the work is the one that is most often performed. The following synopsis is based on the work as performed in London"
"Scotland minister in the Scottish Lowlands in 1700 who was interested in forging a common British culture and national identity in this way. In collaboration with Thomas Arne, they wrote ""Alfred"", an opera about Alfred the Great's victory against the Vikings performed to Frederick, Prince of Wales in 1740 to commemorate the accession of George I and the birthday of Princess Augusta. ""Rule, Britannia!"" was the climactic piece of the opera and quickly became a ""jingoistic"" British patriotic song celebrating ""Britain's supremacy offshore"". An island country with a series of victories for the Royal Navy associated empire and naval warfare"
"which includes the poem ""Rule, Britannia"" (1740), ""The Castle of Indolence"" (1748) and ""The Seasons"" (1738). His poem ""Rule, Britannia"" was set to music by Thomas Arne in 1740 and became a patriotic song. There is a memorial to him in Richmond Park. After Thomson's death the house was bought by a friend, George Ross, who enlarged it and gave it the name Rossdale Cottage. Over the years the name was altered slightly to Rosedale Cottage. In 1786 it was sold to the widow of Admiral Edward Boscawen. After she died in 1805 it was bought by Charles Talbot, the"
"and the British Empire what Marianne is to France or perhaps what Columbia is to the United States. Britannia became a very potent and more common figure in times of war, and represented British liberties and democracy. During the 1990s the term ""Cool Britannia"" (drawn from a humorous version by the Bonzo Dog Band of the song ""Rule Britannia"", with words by James Thomson [1700–1748], which is often used as an unofficial national anthem), was used to describe the contemporary United Kingdom. The phrase referred to the fashionable scenes of the era, with a new generation of pop groups and"
"Hubert Bath Hubert Charles Bath (6 November 188324 April 1945) was a British film composer, music director, and conductor. His credits include ""Tudor Rose"" (1936), ""A Yank at Oxford"" (1938) and ""Millions Like Us"" (1943). Bath was born in Barnstaple, Devon in 1883. In 1924, Bath was named as co-respondent in the divorce case between Colonel Alfred Rawlinson and the actress Jean Aylwin. His composition ""Out of the Blue"" has been used as the theme music of ""Sports Report"" since the programme started in 1948. Also well-known is his ""Cornish Rhapsody"", written for, and essential to the plot of, the"
"Bob James (musician) Robert McElhiney James (born December 25, 1939) is an American Grammy Award-winning jazz keyboardist, arranger, and record producer. He founded the band Fourplay and wrote ""Angela,"" the theme song for the TV show ""Taxi. ""He is most famous for standards such as ""Nautilus"", ""Westchester Lady"", ""Heads"", ""Night Crawler"", ""Touchdown"", ""Blue Lick"", ""Sign Of the Times"", ""Spunky"", ""Marco Polo"", ""Courtship"" and ""Just One Thing"". Music from his first seven albums has often been sampled and has contributed to the formation of hip hop. Robert McElhiney James was born on Christmas Day 1939 in Marshall, Missouri to Albert Lamkin"
"Palace in Cleveland. There is a 1926 article in a 1926 issue of The Times, Batavia, New York stating that Rule and O'Brien was performing at Shea's in Buffalo. Albert Lyman Rule was married to Jessie Jack Ellen Laurie (1894-1978). They had a son and a daughter: Donald J. Rule (born 1915–2008) and Edna J. Rule (born 1921-1990). Bert L. Rule Bert L. Rule ""(né"" Albert Lyman Rule; 12 August 1891 Brooklyn; – 17 August 1978 East Patchogue, New York) was an American composer, arranger, singer, and pianist of popular songs of Tin Pan Alley and the vaudeville genre. Rule"
"wife, Regina, and their dog, Tobey. Ian Whitcomb Ian Timothy Whitcomb (born 10 July 1941, Woking, Surrey) is an English entertainer, singer-songwriter, record producer, and actor. As part of the British Invasion, his hit song ""You Turn Me On"" reached number 8 on ""Billboard"" Hot 100 chart in 1965. He has written several books on popular music, beginning with ""After the Ball"", published by Penguin Books (Britain) and Simon & Schuster (United States) in 1972. He accompanies his singing by playing the ukulele and, through his records, concerts, and film work, has helped to stimulate the current revival of interest"
"Alfred (Arne opera) Alfred is a sung stage work about Alfred the Great with music by Thomas Arne and a libretto by David Mallet and James Thomson. The work was initially devised as a masque in 1740 and was first performed at Cliveden, country home of Frederick, Prince of Wales, on 1 August 1740, to commemorate the accession of George I and the birthday of the Princess Augusta. Arne later revised the work turning it into an all-sung oratorio in 1745 and then an opera in 1753. It is best known for its finale ""Rule, Britannia!"". Frederick, a German prince"
"notes that the Victorians changed ""will"" to ""shall"" in the line ""Britons never shall be slaves."" The song assumed extra significance in 1945 at the conclusion of World War II when it was played at the ceremonial surrender of the Japanese imperial army in Singapore. A massed military band of Australian, British and American forces played as Supreme Allied Commander Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma arrived. ""Rule, Britannia!"" (in an orchestral arrangement by Sir Malcolm Sargent) is traditionally performed at the BBC's Last Night of the Proms, normally with a guest soloist (past performers have included Jane Eaglen,"