Mary Remnant was a leading figure in the Early music revival in the United Kingdom.
12 Facts About Mary Remnant
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Mary Remnant was the only daughter of Joan Lovegrove, a music teacher, and Eustace Remnant, architect and art historian.
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Mary Remnant taught piano and violin, and was for a time, demonstrator of historic early keyboard instruments in the RCM Museum.
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Mary Remnant was awarded a Winston Churchill Memorial Trust Fellowship in 1967, and was able to study in detail and bring back to life the early musical instruments portrayed in carvings and on the walls of churches along the Camino de Santiago in France, Spain and elsewhere in Europe.
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Mary Remnant was an acknowledged expert in her field and is quoted in various subsequent works of reference.
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Mary Remnant featured in numerous recordings of David Munrow's Early Music Consort, variously playing organ, fiddle, tabor and drums.
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Mary Remnant would describe and play a wide range of early instruments, including the harp, psaltery, rebec, organistrum, pipe, shawm, horn, chime bells and percussion.
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Mary Remnant's organistrum was based on the one found on the Portico de la Gloria in Santiago Cathedral.
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Mary Remnant travelled widely across Europe and the United States and was the author of several books and numerous articles on Medieval music.
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Mary Remnant was an active member of the Catholic Writers Guild.
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Between 1973 and 2014 Mary Remnant participated in the musical formation of the junior choir at Brompton Oratory.
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Mary Remnant was a founding member of The Confraternity of St James, which began on 13 January 1983 in her house in Chelsea, on her birthday with a gathering of six early English pilgrims.