1. The Culture of Great Britain

2. The Culture of Great Britain residents is mainly determined by the culture of England,
with the addition of local cultural values ​in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, as
well, though in the slightest degree, cultures of dozens of countries, former colonies of
the British Empire.
 Global changes in the
culture of Great Britain
emerged after 1945. At this
time the government
started to give more
attention to developing
and supporting arts in the
country. The Special
Council for Arts, formed in
1946, supports a different
side of art

3. Music in Great Britain
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The British have not been regarded 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.
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Before the 16th century, musical life was centred 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, most notably by the choirs of King's College,
Cambridge and Christ Church in Oxford.

Henry Purcell, famous for his opera Dido and Aeneaf (1689), has
been described 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.
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Today the musical life in Britain is prospering, and more than ever
before, many people go to the concerts. 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.
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Modern music is also of great popularity. The most talented and
famous composers of contemporary life are John Lennon and
Paul McCartney — the founders of the legendary group “The
Beatles”, whose music still influences new generations.

4. Architecture
 Buildings of the Middle
Ages

White Tower, at the
heart of the Tower of
London, was begun by
Bishop Gundulf in 1078
on the orders of William
the Conqueror. The
structure was
completed in 1097,
providing a colonial
stronghold and a
powerful symbol of
Norman domination.

5. Buildings of the 17th century
 St Paul's Cathedral, London,
(1675-1710) is not only one of
the most perfect expressions
of the English Baroque, but
also one of the greatest
buildings anywhere in
England. It was designed by
Wren to replace the old
cathedral which had been
devastated during the Fire of
London in 1666.

6. Buildings of the 20th century
 Civic Centre is a vast
complex including a City
Hall and Law Courts by
Lanchester & Richards, and
the University College by W
D Caroë. It was hailed as
one of the most
magnificent examples of
civic planning in Britain but,
in retrospect, its deeply
conservative architecture
also seems both arrogant
and strangely out of touch
with contemporary building
in the rest of Europe.

7. Literature
 William Shakespeare is often
called the world's greatest
playwright. He wrote comedies,
tragedies and historical plays in
England in the last part of the
16th and the early 17th century.
 William Shakespeare was born
in 1564 in the English town of
Stratford-upon-Avon. His father
was a businessman and the
town's mayor. His mother came
from a family that owned land
near Stratford. William had
three younger brothers and two
younger sisters.

8.  Charlotte Bronte was born in a
small town in England in 1816.
Charlotte and her sisters, Emily
and Ann had a very hard life,
from early childhood they knew
poverty and very hard work.
 Charlotte received her education
at an orphanage (which she
described in her novel Jane
Eyre). After that she worked as a
governess and a teacher.

9. Cinema
 The United Kingdom has had a
major influence on modern
cinema. The first moving
pictures developed on celluloid
film were made in Hyde Park,
London in 1889 by William
Friese Greene, a British
inventor, who patented the
process in 1890. It is generally
regarded that the British film
industry enjoyed a 'golden age'
in the 1940s, led by the studios
of J. Arthur Rank and Alexander
Korda.

10. Art
 Joseph Mallord William Turner was an English
painter and artist. He was one of the greatest
artists of landscape painting, with a great
mastery of light and colour.[2]
 His father was a maker of wigs. His mother
was ill with mental problems, and the young
Turner was sent to live with his uncle in
Brentford, where he first started to paint.
 Turner became a student at the Royal
Academy of Art school in London when he
was 14 years old. He was accepted into the
Academy a year later. He had a watercolour
painting in 1790 in the Academy's important
art show. He had only been studying for a
year. In 1802, at the age of only 28, he was
elected a member of the Royal Academy, and
later became its Professor of Perspective.

11. The most popular artists
1.Joshua Reynolds
2.Alfred Sisley
3.Thomas Gainsborough
4.Derren Brown