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The British ... as a particularly musical people and, from the end of the 17th century until the 20th century, there were relatively few British composers of international renown.
Before the 16th century, musical life ... on the church, especially the cathedrals and the royal chapels. The choral works of John Taverner, William Byrd and Thomas Tallis are still performed today, ... by the choirs of King's College, Cambridge and Christ Church in Oxford. Secular music in the 16th century included the instrumental work of William Byrd and Orlando Gibbons and the madrigals of Gibbons and Thomas Morley.
Henry Purcell, famous for his opera Dido and Aeneaf \(1689\), ... as the last great English composer before the 20th century. John Gay's The Beggar's Opera \(1728\), is still occasionally performed, and the comic operas of Gilbert and Sullivan are among the few 19th century British works that are still part of the repertoire.
The 20th century saw a renaissance in British music with the work of composers such as Delius, Hoist, Elgar, Vaughan Williams, Walton, Tippett, Maxwell Davies and Britten. Britten in particular ... to be regarded as a specially "English" composer, partly through the English themes of several of his operas but also through the folk songs and church music that ... the inspiration for many of his other works.
At a more modest level, almost all schools and colleges have an orchestra, and many towns have a choral society. Music in the home is more likely to be listened to than played, but many homes have a piano.