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In Praise of Learning

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In Praise of Learning is a studio album by British avant-rock group Henry Cow, recorded at Virgin Records' Manor studios in February and March 1975, and released in May 1975. [1]

46 relations: Acnalbasac Noom, AllMusic, Anthony Moore, Art Bears, Bassoon, Chris Cutler, Clarinet, Concerts (Henry Cow album), Dagmar Krause, Desperate Straights, East Side Digital Records, Electronic oscillator, Experimental rock, Flying Doesn't Help, Fred Frith, Geoff Leigh, Halsteren, Henry Cow, Henry Cow Box, Ian MacDonald, John Greaves (musician), John Grierson, Legend (Henry Cow album), Lindsay Cooper, Living in the Heart of the Beast, Middle Class Revolt, Mongezi Feza, Musique concrète, NME, Oboe, Oxfordshire, Peter Blegvad, Recommended Records, Robert Christgau, Rock's Backpages, Slapp Happy, Soprano saxophone, The 40th Anniversary Henry Cow Box Set, The Fall (band), The Manor Studio, The Virgin Years – Souvenir Box, Tim Hodgkinson, Trumpet, United Kingdom, Virgin Records, Xylophone.

Acnalbasac Noom

Acnalbasac Noom (also known as Slapp Happy or Slapphappy) is a studio album by German-British avant-pop group Slapp Happy, recorded in Wümme, Germany in 1973 with Faust as their backing band.

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AllMusic

AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide or AMG) is an online music guide.

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Anthony Moore

Anthony Moore (also known as Anthony More) (born 13 August 1948) is a British experimental music composer, performer and producer.

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Art Bears

Art Bears were an English avant-rock group formed during the disassembly of Henry Cow in 1978 by three of its members, Chris Cutler (percussion, texts), Fred Frith (guitar, bass guitar, violin, keyboards) and Dagmar Krause (vocals; previously of Slapp Happy).

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Bassoon

The bassoon is a woodwind instrument in the double reed family that typically plays music written in the bass and tenor clefs, and occasionally the treble.

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Chris Cutler

Chris Cutler (born 4 January 1947) is an English percussionist, composer, lyricist and music theorist.

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Clarinet

The clarinet is a musical-instrument family belonging to the group known as the woodwind instruments.

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Concerts (Henry Cow album)

Concerts is a live double album by English avant-rock group Henry Cow, recorded at concerts in London, Italy, the Netherlands and Norway between September 1974 and October 1975.

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Dagmar Krause

Dagmar Krause (born 4 June 1950) is a German singer, best known for her work with avant-rock groups including Slapp Happy, Henry Cow, and Art Bears.

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Desperate Straights

Desperate Straights is a collaborative studio album by British avant-rock groups Slapp Happy and Henry Cow.

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East Side Digital Records

East Side Digital is a record label and distributor based in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

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Electronic oscillator

An electronic oscillator is an electronic circuit that produces a periodic, oscillating electronic signal, often a sine wave or a square wave.

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Experimental rock

Experimental rock (or avant-rock) is a subgenre of rock music which pushes the boundaries of common composition and performance technique or which experiments with the basic elements of the genre.

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Flying Doesn't Help

Flying Doesn't Help is a solo album by Anthony Moore (credited on the album sleeve as 'A. More'), released by Quango in 1979.

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Fred Frith

Jeremy Webster "Fred" Frith (born 17 February 1949) is an English multi-instrumentalist, composer, and improvisor.

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Geoff Leigh

Geoff Leigh (born 5 October 1945) is an English jazz and progressive rock musician, playing primarily soprano saxphone and flute.

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Halsteren

Halsteren is a village in the Dutch province of North Brabant.

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Henry Cow

Henry Cow were an English avant-rock group, founded at Cambridge University in 1968 by multi-instrumentalists Fred Frith and Tim Hodgkinson.

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Henry Cow Box

Henry Cow Box is a seven-CD limited edition box set by English avant-rock group Henry Cow.

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Ian MacDonald

Ian MacCormick (known by the pseudonym Ian MacDonald; 3 October 1948 – 20 August 2003) was a British music critic and author, best known for both Revolution in the Head, his critical history of the Beatles which borrowed techniques from art historians, and The New Shostakovich, a study of Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich.

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John Greaves (musician)

John Greaves (born 23 February 1950) is a British bass guitarist and composer, best known as a member of Henry Cow and his collaborative albums with Peter Blegvad.

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John Grierson

John Grierson CBE (26 April 1898 – 19 February 1972) was a pioneering Scottish documentary maker, often considered the father of British and Canadian documentary film.

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Legend (Henry Cow album)

The Henry Cow Legend (often referred to as Legend or Leg End) is the debut album of British avant-rock group Henry Cow.

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Lindsay Cooper

Lindsay Cooper (3 March 1951 – 18 September 2013) was an English bassoon and oboe player, composer and political activist.

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Living in the Heart of the Beast

"Living in the Heart of the Beast" is the title of an extended song written by Tim Hodgkinson in 1975 for the English avant-rock group Henry Cow.

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Middle Class Revolt

Middle Class Revolt is an album (the 16th) by The Fall, released in 1994 in the UK on Permanent Records and in the US on Matador Records.

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Mongezi Feza

Mongezi Feza (11 May 1945 – 14 December 1975) was a South African jazz trumpeter and flautist.

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Musique concrète

Musique concrète (meaning "concrete music")" problem for any translator of an academic work in French is that the language is relatively abstract and theoretical compared to English; one might even say that the mode of thinking itself tends to be more schematic, with a readiness to see material for study in terms of highly abstract dualisms and correlations, which on occasion does not sit easily with the perhaps more pragmatic English language.

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NME

New Musical Express (NME) is a British music journalism website and former magazine that has been published since 1952.

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Oboe

Oboes are a family of double reed woodwind instruments.

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Oxfordshire

Oxfordshire (abbreviated Oxon, from Oxonium, the Latin name for Oxford) is a county in South East England.

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Peter Blegvad

Peter Blegvad (born August 14, 1951) is an American musician, singer-songwriter, writer, and cartoonist.

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Recommended Records

Recommended Records (RēR) is a British independent record label and distribution network founded by Chris Cutler in March 1978.

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Robert Christgau

Robert Thomas Christgau (born April 18, 1942) is an American essayist and music journalist.

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Rock's Backpages

Rock's Backpages is an online archive of music journalism, sourced from freelance contributions to the music and mainstream press from the 1950s to the present day.

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Slapp Happy

Slapp Happy was a German/English avant-pop group, formed in Germany in 1972.

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Soprano saxophone

The soprano saxophone is a higher-register variety of the saxophone, a woodwind instrument, invented in the 1840s.

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The 40th Anniversary Henry Cow Box Set

The 40th Anniversary Henry Cow Box Set (also known as The Road) is a nine-CD plus one-DVD limited edition box set by English avant-rock group Henry Cow, and was released by RēR Megacorp in January 2009.

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The Fall (band)

The Fall were an English post-punk band, formed in 1976 in Prestwich, Greater Manchester.

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The Manor Studio

The Manor Studio (a.k.a. The Manor) was a recording studio in the manor house at the village of Shipton-on-Cherwell in Oxfordshire, England, north of the city of Oxford.

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The Virgin Years – Souvenir Box

The Virgin Years – Souvenir Box is a three-CD limited edition box set by English avant-rock group Henry Cow.

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Tim Hodgkinson

Timothy "Tim" George Hodgkinson (born 1 May 1949, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England) is an English experimental music composer and performer, principally on reeds, lap steel guitar, and keyboards.

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Trumpet

A trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz ensembles.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.

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Virgin Records

Virgin Records Ltd. was a British record label founded by entrepreneurs Richard Branson, Simon Draper, Nik Powell, and musician Tom Newman in 1972.

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Xylophone

The xylophone (from the Greek words ξύλον—xylon, "wood" + φωνή—phōnē, "sound, voice", meaning "wooden sound") is a musical instrument in the percussion family that consists of wooden bars struck by mallets.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Praise_of_Learning

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