Roy Harris

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The Methody Parson 02:26 Tools
Symphony No. 3 16:47 Tools
VI. Negro Fantasy 09:17 Tools
I. The Girl I Left Behind Me 03:49 Tools
Ratcliffe Highway 02:29 Tools
VII. Johnny Comes Marching Home 03:14 Tools
V. Interlude: Dance Tunes for Full Orchestra 03:05 Tools
III. Interlude: Dance Tunes for Strings and Percussion 03:02 Tools
One Night As I Lay On My Bed 02:06 Tools
II. Western Cowboy 10:20 Tools
Bring 'em Down 01:39 Tools
The Royal Oak 02:02 Tools
The Goal Song 04:34 Tools
The Dockyard Gate 04:17 Tools
The Spithead Sailor 02:02 Tools
IV. Mountaineer Love Song 07:42 Tools
The Royal Charter 02:55 Tools
The Saucy Bold Robber 02:27 Tools
McCafferty 02:27 Tools
Instrumental (Lillibulero / GarryOwen) 03:33 Tools
Symphony No. 7 02:10 Tools
I Would That the Wars Were All Done 01:59 Tools
Instrumental / British Grenadiers 02:10 Tools
Lass Of Swansea Town 02:10 Tools
Instrumental (The Girl I Left Behind Me (Brigthon Camp) / The White Cockade) 02:10 Tools
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra: I. First Movement 03:03 Tools
The Hungry Army 02:48 Tools
Barbry Allen 05:07 Tools
Captain Ward 03:46 Tools
Bold Lovell 03:24 Tools
Muddley Barracks 02:14 Tools
Poverty Knock 02:42 Tools
Epilogue to Profiles in Courage - J.F.K. 03:21 Tools
The Drum Major 03:46 Tools
Balaclava 03:04 Tools
The Young Recruit Of Thirteen Pence A Day 03:04 Tools
Li'l boy named David 01:45 Tools
Instrumental: Clare's Dagoons / Major Mackie 01:45 Tools
Banks Of The Nile 01:45 Tools
Chelsea Quarters 01:45 Tools
Folksong Symphony, "Symphony No. 4": I. The Girl I Left Behind Me 07:43 Tools
Steepleford Town 02:35 Tools
Cropper Lads 01:29 Tools
The Jovial Hunter 02:42 Tools
II. "... to form a more perfect Union" 01:45 Tools
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra: II. Second Movement 01:44 Tools
When I Was A Little Boy 02:30 Tools
Hard Times Of Old England 03:21 Tools
The Rambling Solider 03:36 Tools
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra: III. Third Movement 01:44 Tools
When Johnny Comes Marching Home 02:54 Tools
The Beggar's Song 03:04 Tools
Symphony No. 4, "Folksong Symphony": I. The Girl I Left Behind Me 03:50 Tools
South Of San Antonio 02:23 Tools
No One Else 02:50 Tools
Folksong Symphony, "Symphony No. 4": II. Western Cowboy 03:03 Tools
Mi khamokha 08:00 Tools
The "Royal Charter" 02:54 Tools
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra: IV. Fourth Movement 01:44 Tools
The Dragoon's Ride 05:08 Tools
Symphony No. 3 (in one movement) [1937] 02:54 Tools
Folksong Symphony, "Symphony No. 4": V. Interlude: Dance Tunes for Full Orchestra 17:19 Tools
Folksong Symphony, "Symphony No. 4": III. Interlude: Dance Tunes for Strings and Percussion 02:23 Tools
The Topman And The Afterguard 02:46 Tools
Caroline And Her Yound Sailor Bold 03:55 Tools
The Scarlet & The Blue (Blockley) 05:08 Tools
Roy Harris - The Royal Oak 02:02 Tools
Old Billy Riley 07:43 Tools
III. "... to promote the general welfare" 02:54 Tools
General Ludd's Triumph 07:43 Tools
I. "We, the people" 03:55 Tools
Folksong Symphony, "Symphony No. 4": IV. Mountaineer Love Song 01:44 Tools
Turpin Hero 02:58 Tools
Symphony No. 4, "Folksong Symphony": II. Western Cowboy 10:23 Tools
Folksong Symphony, "Symphony No. 4": VI. Negro Fantasy 01:05 Tools
Robin Hood & Little John 03:06 Tools
Acceleration 07:14 Tools
Poor Owd 'Oss 02:58 Tools
Folksong Symphony, "Symphony No. 4": VII. Johnny Comes Marching Home 02:23 Tools
Symphony No. 3: I. Con moto: quarter note = 84 [Tragic] — 02:23 Tools
The Bonny Green Woods 03:03 Tools
The Three Butchers 07:43 Tools
As I Was Going To Banbury 03:03 Tools
Strike The Bell 03:03 Tools
The Death Of Bill Brown 03:03 Tools
Symphony No. 9: I. "We, the people" 02:23 Tools
Symphony No. 4, "Folksong Symphony": IV. Mountaineer Love Song 07:43 Tools
Symphony No. 9: II. "... to form a more perfect Union" 17:19 Tools
Symphony No. 4, "Folksong Symphony": III. Interlude: Dance Tunes For Strings And Percussion 03:03 Tools
The 'Royal Oak' 02:23 Tools
Symphony No. 6, "Gettysburg": I. Awakening 01:05 Tools
Round the Corner, Sally 01:05 Tools
All Through the Ale 03:03 Tools
Think On This (When You Smoke Tobacco) 03:03 Tools
Symphony No. 4, "Folksong Symphony": V. Interlude: Dance Tunes for Full Orchestra 03:06 Tools
The Baker Of Colebrook 02:23 Tools
Saucy Bold Robber 03:03 Tools
Symphony No. 3 (in one movement) - Remastered 01:05 Tools
Symphony No. 6, "Gettysburg": IV. Affirmation 02:18 Tools
The Streams of Lovely Nancy 02:23 Tools
Symphony No. 1 "1933": I. Allegro 01:05 Tools
The Lady Of Carlisle 02:23 Tools
Sandbank Fields 02:23 Tools
The 23rd Of March 02:23 Tools
The Ullswater Pack 09:20 Tools
American Creed: I. Free to Dream 09:20 Tools
On Board A Ninety-Eight 01:44 Tools
Go From My Window 17:19 Tools
The Unhappy Parting 17:19 Tools
Symphony No. 6, "Gettysburg": III. Dedication 17:19 Tools
Symphony No. 6, "Gettysburg": II. Conflict 17:19 Tools
Symphony No.3 In One Movement - Live 17:19 Tools
American Creed: II. Free to Build 17:19 Tools
Symphony No. 9: III. "... to promote the general welfare" 01:05 Tools
Symphony No. 8: Part I 01:44 Tools
Symphony No. 4, "Folksong Symphony": VI. Negro Fantasy 09:20 Tools
When Johnny comes marching home American ballads for piano 01:44 Tools
The Knight & The Shepherd's Daughter (Sweet William) 01:05 Tools
Untitled Piano Piece (1926) 01:05 Tools
Symphony No.3 17:19 Tools
Robin Hood And The Tanner 01:44 Tools
Robin Hood & The Tanner 01:44 Tools
When Johnny Comes Marching Home, An American Overture 01:44 Tools
Symphony No. 9: I 01:44 Tools
Symphony No. 9: II 01:44 Tools
Symphony No. 3: II. half note = 72-80 [Lyric] — 01:05 Tools
Symphony No. 3: IV. half note = 112 [Fugue - Dramatic] — 01:44 Tools
Piano Sonata, Op. 1: I. Prelude: Maestoso, con bravura 01:44 Tools
Symphony No. 8: Part III 02:18 Tools
The Topman & the Afterguard 01:44 Tools
Symphony No. 8: Part V 02:18 Tools
The Dragon's Ride 01:44 Tools
Caroline & Her Young Sailor Bold 01:44 Tools
Symphony No 3 18:01 Tools
Symphony No.3 (in one movement) 18:01 Tools
Shake Her, Johnny 18:01 Tools
Cod liver ile American ballads for piano 02:07 Tools
Goodbye, Fare Ye Well 02:07 Tools
Black is the color of my true love's hair American ballads for piano 01:05 Tools
Symphony No.3 In One Movement 01:05 Tools
A Happy Piece for Shirley 01:05 Tools
Kentucky Spring 01:05 Tools
Little Suite: I. Bells 01:05 Tools
Three Variations on a Theme (String Quartet No. 2): Variation III 01:05 Tools
Symphony No.3 In One Movement - Live At Avery Fisher Hall, New York / 1985 01:05 Tools
Symphony No. 3: V. Con moto: whole note = 66-72 [Dramatic - Tragic] 01:05 Tools
American Ballads: I. Streets of Laredo 01:05 Tools
Little Suite: IV. Slumber 01:05 Tools
Piano Sonata, Op. 1: II. Andante ostinato: Misterioso 01:05 Tools
Symphony No. 8: Part IV 01:05 Tools
Come On Little Mama 02:18 Tools
The 'Royal Charter' 02:18 Tools
Symphony No. 8: Part II 02:18 Tools
Soliloquy 02:18 Tools
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1. Roy Harris (1898-1979), an American composer 2. Roy Harris (1933-2016), a British folk singer. ----------------------------------- 1) Roy Ellsworth Harris (February 12, 1898 in Chandler, Oklahoma, United States - October 1, 1979), was an American classical composer. He wrote much music on American subjects, becoming best known for his Symphony No. 3. He was born of mixed Scots, Irish and Welsh ancestry, in circumstances he sometimes liked to contrast with those of the more privileged East-coast composers: to poor parents, in a log cabin in Oklahoma, on Abraham Lincoln's birthday, one of five children (three of whom died early). A gambling win enabled his father to buy a small holding in California,[citation needed] where the boy grew up a farmer, in the rural isolation of the San Gabriel Valley. He studied piano with his mother, and later clarinet. Though he studied at the University of California, Berkeley, he was still virtually self-taught when he began writing music of his own, but in the early 1920s he had lessons from Arthur Bliss (then in Santa Barbara) and the senior American composer and researcher of American Indian (then called "Red Indian") music, Arthur Farwell. Harris sold his farmland and supported himself as a truck-driver and delivery man for a dairy firm. Gradually he made contacts in the East with other young composers, and partly through Aaron Copland's recommendation he was able to spend 1926-29 in Paris, as one of the many young Americans who received their final musical grooming in the masterclasses of Nadia Boulanger. Harris had no time for Boulanger's neoclassical, Stravinsky-derived aesthetic, but under her tutelage he began his lifelong study of Renaissance music, and wrote his first significant works: the concerto for piano, clarinet and string quartet drew praise from the seldom-impressible Frederick Delius.[citation needed] After suffering a serious back injury, he was obliged to return for treatment to the United States, where Harris formed associations with Howard Hanson at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester and, more importantly, with Serge Koussevitsky at the Boston Symphony Orchestra. These associations secured performance outlets for the large-scale works he was writing. In 1934, a week after its première under Koussevitsky, his Symphony ‘1933’ became the first American symphony to be commercially recorded. It was his Symphony No.3, however, premièred by Koussevitsky in 1939, which proved to be the composer's biggest breakthrough and made him practically a household name. During the 1930s Harris taught at Mills College—where Darius Milhaud would later teach—Westminster Choir College (1934-1938) and the Juilliard School of Music; he spent most of the rest of his professional career restlessly moving through teaching posts and residences at colleges and universities in various parts of the USA, ending with a long stint in California, first at UCLA and finally at California State University, Los Angeles. Among his pupils were William Schuman and Peter Schickele (best known as the creator of P. D. Q. Bach). He received many of America's most prestigious cultural awards, and at the end of his life was proclaimed Honorary Composer Laureate of the State of California. Harris's sons Shaun and Dan performed with The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, a Los Angeles-based psychedelic rock band of the late 1960s (although Roy Harris did not approve of rock music).[citation needed] Harris was a champion of many causes (he founded the International String Congress to combat what was perceived as a shortage of string players in the U.S., and co-founded the American Composers Alliance), a tireless organizer of conferences and contemporary music festivals, and a frequent radio broadcaster. He made several trips to the Soviet Union; his admiration for that country attracted adverse criticism during the McCarthy era. Harris was indeed in US terms a liberal on many social issues, and pugnaciously opposed to anti-semitism and racial discrimination. His last symphony, a commission for the American Bicentennial in 1976, was mauled by the critics at its first performance as a 'travesty of music' by a composer who had written himself out: but this may partly have been because it addressed the themes of slavery and the Civil War, and contradicted the required mood of national self-congratulation. In his last years Harris was increasingly depressed by the effects of the US's rampant materialism, discrimination against minorities and destruction of natural resources. Although the rugged American patriotism of his works of the 1930s and 1940s is reflected in his research into and use of folk-music (and to a lesser extent of jazz rhythms), Harris was paradoxically obsessed with the great European pre-classical forms, especially the monolithic ones of fugue (which we hear in the Third Symphony) and passacaglia (as featured in the next most admired, the Seventh). His customary mode of discourse, with long singing lines and resonant modal harmonies, is ultimately based on his admiration for and development of Renaissance polyphony—and also antiphonal effects, which he exploits brilliantly with a large orchestra. Like many American composers of his time, he was deeply impressed by the symphonic achievement of Sibelius (who also drew on Renaissance polyphonic techniques). In Harris's best works the music grows organically from the opening bars, as if a tiny seed gives birth to an entire tree; and this is certainly the case with the Third Symphony, which joined the American repertoire during the same era as works by Aaron Copland and Virgil Thomson. The first edition of Kent Kennan's The Technique of Orchestration (1952) quotes three passages from this symphony to illustrate good orchestral writing for cello, timpani, and vibraphone, respectively. The book quotes no other Harris symphonies. Few other American symphonies have acquired such a firmly-entrenched position in the standard performance repertory as has this one, due much to the championship of the piece by Leonard Bernstein, as well as to his several recordings of it. His music, while often abstract, has a reputation for its optimistic, American tone. Musicologist John Canarina describes the "Harris style" as "exuberant horn passages and timpani ostinatos". Harris so frequently composed prismatically modulating chords that a valid one-word description of his orchestral music would be chromatic. He also liked to write bell-like passages for tuned percussion. This is readily apparent not only in the famous Third Symphony but also in the Sixth "Gettysburg". In all, Harris composed over 170 works, including many works for amateurs, but the backbone of his output was his series of symphonies. Harris wrote no opera, but otherwise covered all the main genres of orchestral, vocal, choral, chamber and instrumental music as well as writing a significant number of works for band. His series of symphonies is still his most significant contribution to American music. ----------------------------------- 2) British folk singer. 1933-2016 Skiffle and floor spots at early folk clubs. Moved to Cardiff 1960, there opened first folk club in S.Wales. Began semi pro career singing around S.Wales, Bristol & West country, Swindon, Cheltenham. Got sack from 3 jobs for taking time off to go singing. Decided to go full time after good reception at Sidmouth Festival 1964. Moved back to Nottingham (home patch) started touting for work. 1967 opened Nottingham Traditional Music Club... lots more on label biog www.wildgoose.co.uk/displayartist.asp?ARTIST_ID=39 and album information on https://mainlynorfolk.info/folk/records/royharris.html died Feb 2016 http://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=159218&messages=7 Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.