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Dolmetsch, Arnold (1858-1940) - Swiss musician and maker of old instruments. Settled in England in 1914, establishing workshop for manufacture and repair of clavichords, harpsichords, viols, lutes, etc., and founding annual festival at which old music was performed by himself and his family on authentic instruments.

Henry Wood (1869-1944) - English conductor and organist, tireless champion of contemporary music. List of works of which he gave first performances and first performances in England is long and honourable. In 1895 Henry Wood was engaged by Robert Newman as conductor of his new series of Promenade concerts in London. These he built from rudimentary beginnings to be a premier feature of English musical life. The "Proms" (Promenade Concerts) are held in the Royal Albert Hall for 8 weeks from mid-July each year. (Literally, Promenade Concerts are concerts at which the audience can walk about, but in modern usage concerts at which a section of the audience stands.)

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Sarum rite (also Sarum use) - the ritual used in the Cathedral of Salisbury, England, which differed in certain details from the Ro­man liturgy. It prevailed during the later Middle Ages throughout much of England, until it was abolished by decree in 1547.

lute ауrе-арии (песни) в сопровождении лютни. Этот жанр в английской музыке увековечил Дауленд (Dowland).

semi-opera - Музыка к драматическим спектаклям. Перселл внес в нее принцип оперной драматургии. Имеются в виду «Диоклезиан», «Королева индейцев», «Король Артур».

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catch - a kind of English round for three unaccompanied male voices, usually with lighthearted words. It was popular from the late 16th into the 19th c.

glee - an 18th-century type of unaccompanied choral composition for three or more men's voices (flourished c. 1750 - c. 1830)

ballad opera - a popular type of 18th-c. English stage entertain­ment, consisting of spoken dialogue and simple songs adapted from folk tunes or from operas of the period. The most famous of all, was The Beggar's Opera (1728) with text by John Gay and music arranged by John Pepusch (1667-1752). The style of the ballad opera has been imitated in Vaughan Williams' Hugh the Drover (1944) and in Kurt Weill's The Threepenny Opera of 1928 (Brecht's lyrics).

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syllabic and strophic (folk songs) - силлабические (безраспев­ные) и куплетные (народные песни)

carol - in medieval times a round dance with music accompani­ment, which soon developed into a song for 2 or 3 voices usually (but not necessary) to a text dealing with the birth of Christ. One of the oldest printed English Christmas carols is the Boat's Head Carol (1521). Vaughan Williams wrote a Fantasia on Christmas Carols and Britten a Ceremony of Carols.

shanty - a work song sung by sailors, especially one that rhyth­mically coordinates strenuous effort

morris dance - a type of English folk. dance danced by six men, in two groups of three, with bells attached to their legs and each holding a white handkerchief or a stick. There are numerous morris dances, and the term is sometimes extended to include the sword dance as well.

pipe and tabor - a duct flute with three finger holes and a small snare drum, both played by a single player who holds the pipe in the left hand and beats the tabor with a stick held in the right

melodeon - a small, suction-operated reed organ of the first half of the 19th c.

Spanish Armada (also the Armada) - a fleet sent against Eng­land by Philip II of Spain in 1588, considered invincible but defeated and subsequently destroyed by storms