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Harold Everard Monteagle Barlow FRS (15 November 1899 – 20 April 1989) was a British engineer. He was born in Islington, London, the son of Leonard Barlow, an electrical engineer. He entered University College, London where, apart from the World War II years (which he spent at Royal Aircraft Establishment , Farnborough), he spent most of his ...
Feb 23, 1993 · Harold Barlow, a songwriter and consultant on music plagiarism, died on Feb. 15 at North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset, L.I. He was 77 and lived in Douglaston, Queens. The cause was...
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The book collects 10,000 musical themes (mostly classical works) and indexes them using a notation index based on transposing the pitches to C major or C minor (so that God Save the Queen/America, for instance, would come out as CCDBCDEEFE). It was followed a year later by A Dictionary of Vocal Themes(1950), including themes from songs and opera.
Sam Morgenstern (1906-1989) was a teacher at Mannes College of Music in Greenwich Village, New York, and the conductor of Lower Manhattan's Lemonade Opera Company, which gave the US premiere of Prokofiev’s Duenna in 1948. He composed two short operas, along with Warsaw Ghetto (setting a spoken word poem by Harry Granick to background music), which ...
A new attempt at classifying tunes was published in 1975 by Denys Parsons. The Directory of Tunes and Musical Themes used the contours of a melody, avoiding the need for transpositions (which involves some musical knowledge). Using the letters U, D and R to denote up, down and repeat, and an asterisk for the first note, “God Save the Queen” comes o...
Feb 15, 1993 · American songwriter/ From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia . Harold Barlow(15 May 1915, Boston, Massachusetts– 15 February 1993, Manhasset, Long Island, New York) was an American songwriter, and later a consultant on plagiarism. American songwriter. He studied violin at Boston University, graduating in 1937.
Feb 28, 1993 · Feb. 28, 1993 12 AM PT. TIMES STAFF WRITER. Harold Barlow, hit composer and expert on plagiarism in popular music who was trained as a classical violinist, has died. He was 77. A resident of...
Barlow, Harold, American writer on music and composer; b. Boston, May 15, 1915; d. Manhasset, N.Y., Feb. 15, 1993. He studied violin at Boston Univ. (B.M., 1937), and later played in various orchs.; also led a U.S. Army band. He compiled two valuable reference works, for which he designed an original method of indexing melodic themes by letters ...
