| Name |
Other Names |
Birthyear |
Deathyear |
Notes |
| Seeger, Pete |
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1919 |
2014 |
American folk singer. A prolific songwriter, his best-known songs include "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?" (with Joe Hickerson), "If I Had a Hammer (The Hammer Song)" (with Lee Hays of the Weavers), and "Turn! Turn! Turn!" (lyrics adapted from Ecclesiastes), |
| Segade, Padre Jesús Gabriel |
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Argentinian priest chiefly known for writing test of and arranging Missa Criola |
| Segal, Jack |
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1918 |
2005 |
American pianist and composer of popular songs, best known for writing the lyrics to Scarlet Ribbons |
| Seiber, Mátyás György |
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1905 |
1960 |
Hungarian-born composer who studied in Budapest with Zoltán Kodály, with whom he toured Hungary collecting folk songs. In 1928 he became director of the jazz department at the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt, which offered the first academic jazz courses anywhere.[1] After they were closed by the Nazis in 1933, Seiber left Germany and settled in London |
| Seitz, Ernest |
Roberts, Raymond |
1892 |
1978 |
Canadian composer, songwriter, pianist, and music educator. He published some of his work under the pseudonym "Raymond Roberts" because he did not wish to be associated with popular music. |
| Sells, Robert |
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| Senfl, Ludwig |
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1486 |
1542 |
Swiss composer of the Renaissance, active in Germany. He was the most famous pupil of Heinrich Isaac, was music director to the court of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor, and was an influential figure in the development of the Franco-Flemish polyphonic style in Germany. |
| Senior, Margaret |
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Music educationalist |
| Senn, Walter |
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German musicologist and editor |
| Setzer, Brian |
|
1959 |
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American guitarist, singer and songwriter |
| Sexton, Matthew Michael |
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Poet |
| Sexton, Timothy |
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Australian freelance composer, conductor, arranger, singer, writer, adjudicator and broadcaster who founded the Adelaide Arts Orchestra, |
| Shabalala, Joseph |
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1941 |
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South African composer and founder of the choral group, Ladysmith Black Mambazo |
| Shackley, George |
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20th century composer, organist and music arranger. His arrangements are published in many compilations |
| Shackley, Larry |
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1956 |
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American composer and editor. Composer of over thirty scores for films, videotapes, and radio dramas, Mr. Shackley is also an active studio musician, arranger, and orchestrator. Over the past several years, he has devoted most of his composing to music for the church, producing over twenty books of keyboard arrangements and more than one hundred choral anthems |
| Shadwell, Thomas |
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1642 |
1692 |
English poet and playwright who was appointed poet laureate in 1689. |
| Shafferman, Jean Anne |
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American clinician and conductor, she has presented church music clinics throughout the United States and Canada. A published composer and arranger, Jean Anne has authored over 70 choral works, 20 children's musicals and Christian elementary song collections, five anthem collections and two SATB Christmas cantatas. |
| Shaiman, Marc |
|
1959 |
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American composer, lyricist, arranger and performer for films, television, and theatre. He is perhaps best known for writing the music and co-writing the lyrics for the Broadway musical version of the John Waters film Hairspray. |
| Shakespeare, William |
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1564 |
1616 |
Not only a great English playwright, but the greatest playwright in the English language. Reflecting upon the achievement of his peer and sometimes rival, Ben Jonson wrote of Shakespeare, “He was not of an age, but for all time.” |
| Shank, Joshua |
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1980 |
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American composer who in 2002 became the youngest composer ever awarded the Raymond W. Brock Student Composition Award by the American Choral Directors Association. The winning piece, Musica animam tangens (written at the age of 20), was premiered at the 2003 ACDA National Convention. |
| Shannon, James Royce |
Royce, James |
1881 |
1946 |
Irish-American composer and lyricist who was active at the time Tin Pan Alley was in vogue. He is known chiefly for writing the lyrics to "The Missouri Waltz" (the state song of Missouri) and for composing the song "Too Ra Loo Ra Loo Ral" ("Irish Lullaby"). |
| Sharon, Deke |
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1967 |
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American composer/arranger. As the founder, director and arranger for the House Jacks, the original "Rock Band Without Instruments," Deke has shared the stage with countless music legends, including Ray Charles, James Brown, Crosby Stills and Nash, Run DMC, The Temptations, LL Cool J and the Four Tops and performed for luminaries including President Bill Clinton. Deke founded the Contemporary A Cappella Society with Anne Raugh and Don Gooding while in college, and is responsible for many semin |
| Sharp, Cecil James |
Sharpe, Cecil |
1859 |
1924 |
English musician who was the founding father of the folk-song revival in England in the early 20th century. |
| Sharp, T. W. |
Sharp, Tim |
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American composer, conductor and Executive Director of the American Choral Directors Association. Prior to his leadership of ACDA, Sharp was Dean of Fine Arts at Rhodes College in Memphis, TN, and earlier, Director of Choral Activities at Belmont University in Nashville, TN. |
| Sharp, William |
McLeod, Fiona |
1855 |
1905 |
Scottish writer, of poetry and literary biography in particular, who from 1893 wrote also as Fiona Macleod, a pseudonym kept almost secret during his lifetime. He was also an editor of the poetry of Ossian, Walter Scott, Matthew Arnold, Algernon Charles Swinburne and Eugene Lee-Hamilton. |
| Sharpe, Evelyn |
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20th Century British musician who produced much vocal music, hundreds of songs and carols. Many of them were suitable for children. She also composed church music, piano pieces for children (e.g. Apple Harvest and Tales From Toyland) and three orchestral pieces |
| Shaw, Geoffrey [Turton] |
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1879 |
1943 |
English composer and musician specializing in Anglican church music. After Cambridge, where he was an organ scholar, he became a schoolmaster, then a schools inspector, while producing a stream of compositions, arrangements, and published collections of music. |
| Shaw, Kirby |
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American composer/arranger with nearly 3000 choral compositions/arrangements in print, Kirby’s music is sung around the world and has sold over 20 million copies. He has many commissioned pieces to his credit, including one for The Mormon Tabernacle Choir. This creative and prolific output has resulted in numerous ASCAP awards |
| Shaw, Martin |
Shaw, Martin Edward Fallas |
1875 |
1958 |
Brother to Geoffrey, English composer, organist, conductor and (in his early life) theatre producer. His over 300 published works include songs, hymns, carols, oratorios, several instrumental works, a congregational mass setting (the Anglican Folk Mass) and four operas including a ballad opera. |
| Shaw, Robert |
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1916 |
1999 |
American conductor most famous for his work with his namesake Chorale, with the Cleveland Orchestra and Chorus, and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chorus. |