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William Herbert Jude
William Herbert Jude (1851–1922), usually credited as W.H. Jude, was an English composer and organist. Born in Westleton, Suffolk in September 1851, his parents later moved to Norfolk.Osbeck, Kenneth W., ''101 more hymn stories'', (Kregel Publications, 1985) , pp. 155–156.Tubb, Benjamin; Miller, M.D.,William Herbert Jude, ''Public Domain Music'', (www.pdmusic.org) He was a precocious child, and attended Wisbech Grammar School where records note that by age eight he was composing incidental music for school plays.White, L., ''A History of Wisbech Grammar School'' (Wisbech, 1939), 136. He later attended Liverpool Organ School and Liverpool College of Music, also becoming college principal for a while.Sowcroft, Philip L.Garland 7 ''A Garland of Light Music Composers''. By 1881, Jude was listed in the census as living at 33 Oxford Street, Mount Pleasant, Liverpool with his wife Catherine. At this time, he was organist for the Blue Coat Hospital and Stretford Town Hall near Man ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
W H Jude
W, or w, is the twenty-third and fourth-to-last letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. It represents a consonant, but in some languages it represents a vowel. Its name in English is ''double-u'',Pronounced in formal situations, but colloquially often , , or , with a silent ''l''. plural ''double-ues''. History The classical Latin alphabet, from which the modern European alphabets derived, did not have the "W' character. The "W" sounds were represented by the Latin letter " V" (at the time, not yet distinct from " U"). The sounds (spelled ) and (spelled ) of Classical Latin developed into a bilabial fricative between vowels in Early Medieval Latin. Therefore, no longer adequately represented the labial-velar approximant sound of Germanic phonology. The Germanic phoneme was therefore written as or ( and becoming distinct only by the Early Modern period) by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
