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5 unusual facts about H. C. Colles


Abraham Colles

His grandson was the eminent music critic and lexicographer Henry Cope (H. C.) Colles.

H. C. Colles

He was a Fellow and Governor of St. Michael's College, Tenbury, Chairman of the Church Music Society and Chairman of the School of English Church Music.

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He became assistant music critic of The Times, under J. A. Fuller-Maitland, and in 1911 succeeded him as chief critic.

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On Sir Hugh Allen's invitation, he lectured on music history, analysis and interpretation at the RCM.

Whole tone scale

H. C. Colles names as the "childhood of the whole-tone scale" the music of Berlioz and Schubert in France and then Russians Glinka and Dargomyzhsky.



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