The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #56547   Message #885515
Posted By: GUEST
08-Feb-03 - 11:19 AM
Thread Name: BBC - Commitment to folk music??
Subject: RE: BBC - Comitment to folk music??
Well, there is Sir Isaac Newton. There is medical herbalism, and English herbalists like Culpepper. There is Chaucer. There is Mary Wollenstonecraft's "A Vindication of the Rights of Men". There is Edward Elgar. There is John Taverner. There is the beautiful English polyphonic music traditions of the late 15th and early 16th centuries--sacred music of Masses, Magnificats, and votive antiphons.

I could go on and on, but I think you catch my drift.