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United Kingdom musical history can be divided between its folk and formal traditions. Many common people would sing and dance as well. But the folk music has been noticed more in Ireland, Scotland, and Wales.Â
The beginnings of art music in England can be traced to plainsong (plainchant). It is with the aid of monks and troubadours traveling throughout Europe, musical forms, and many regions were freely intermingled and spread quickly.
Music in England reached another peak in the late 19th century, when comic opera attained near perfection in the work of William Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan. Later significant composers include Edward Elgar, Gustav Holst, William Walton, and Benjamin Britten. But in the 70s and 80s, there was big bands that got famous and are still know till this day.
Folk Tradition:
Closely associated with song in folk tradition.
Folk dances have their origins in many of the same sources. This included mummers' dances, masques, courtship, war, death, rebirth, and assorted ancient rituals of birth.
From the 14th to the 17th century, performance-oriented dances.
It includes court dances and dances developed for the stage, where much in evidence in more sophisticated circles of society.
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