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Richard Huloet was a 16th-century English lexicographer known for authoring the "Abecedarium Anglico-Latinum," which was published in 1552. This work is recognized as one of the earliest and most comprehensive bilingual English-to-Latin dictionaries. It was designed to serve as a practical reference...

Charlton Thomas Lewis was an American lawyer, author, editor, and lexicographer known for his work on Latin reference books. With Charles Short, he edited A Latin Dictionary, published in 1879 and commonly called the Lewis and Short dictionary; Lewis was responsible for entries from B through Z. The...

Thomas Elyot was a 16th-century English diplomat, scholar, and humanist who significantly advanced English Renaissance learning. In 1538, he published "The Dictionary," a comprehensive Latin-English wordbook that stands as one of the earliest major lexicographic works in the English language. The di...

Herbert Howells's Requiem is an unaccompanied choral work for divided mixed voices, composed in the 1930s but not published until 1980. Rather than setting the complete Roman Catholic Requiem Mass, it combines passages from the Latin liturgy with English biblical texts, including psalm verses and wo...

Robert Ainsworth (1660-1743) was an English schoolmaster and Latin lexicographer. His principal work was a Latin dictionary published in 1736, commonly known as Ainsworth's Latin Dictionary, which was used for many years as a school reference in the study of classical language. He is relevant to the...

Elisha Coles was a seventeenth-century English lexicographer and stenographer. His An English Dictionary, published in 1676, explained difficult terms used in fields including divinity, husbandry, physic, and other arts and sciences. The dictionary is also associated with regional English vocabulary...

Henry Cockeram was an English lexicographer associated with The English Dictionarie, first published in 1623. The book is commonly identified as the third English dictionary and is notable for being the first known English dictionary to use the word dictionary in its title. It combined ordinary voca...

John Rutter’s Requiem is a choral composition written in 1985 and first performed in October of that year. The seven-part work combines portions of the Latin Missa pro Defunctis with texts from the Book of Common Prayer and the Psalms, forming an arch-like meditation on death, prayer, and consolatio...

Andrew Lloyd Webber's Requiem is a large-scale setting of the Roman Catholic Requiem Mass by the English composer Andrew Lloyd Webber. Written in 1985, it was dedicated to his father, William Lloyd Webber, who was also a composer. The work combines choir, solo voices, and orchestra, and includes the...

Bob Chilcott's Requiem is a contemporary choral setting by the English composer and conductor Bob Chilcott. Written in 2010, it draws on the traditional Latin texts associated with the Roman Catholic Requiem Mass while presenting them in a modern concert-work setting. The piece is intended for choir...

Eternal Light: A Requiem is a choral work by the British composer Howard Goodall, composed in 2008. It uses the requiem tradition as a framework but places emphasis on consolation for the living as well as remembrance of the dead. The work combines Latin and English texts and is written for choral p...