Harris, Roy. 1898-1979. US National music composer. Oklahoma flavour. Assymetric rhythms.

Hasideans. Jewish sects. 300-175BC. Strict Talmudic observation.

Haydn, Joseph. 1732-1809. Austrian Classical composer. Father of modern symphony and string quartet. Solomon Symphony 1791-5. English Symphony 1794. Seasons 1801.

Helicon. Greek mountain dedicated to the Muses and Apollo.

Henry II. 1133-1189. Plantagenet king of England 1154-. Common Law system. Married Eleanor of Aquitaine. Angevin Empire. Becket. Rosamund.

Henry IV. 1050-1106. Holy Roman Emperor, 1056-. Civil War. Struggles with Gregory VII led to excommunication. Worms Synod. Clement III.

Herder, Johann von. 1744-1803. German Sturm and Drang Nationalist writer. Stimulated Romanticism.

Hermitage. 1764. St Petersburg art museum.

Hijrah. (Hegira). 622. Muhammed’s flight from Mecca to Medina. Begins Moslem calendar.

Hillary, Sir Edmund. 1919-2008. New Zealand, first to climb Mt. Everest, 1953, with Tenzig Norgay.

Hindemith, Paul. 1895-1963. German Gebrauchmusik movement composer. Music as social expression.

Hippodamus. 5C BC. Greek architect. City of Rhodes.

Hiss, Alger. 1904-96. Alleged communist spy in US State Department. Jailed for perjury 1950-4.

Ho Chi Minh. 1890-1969. North Vietnamese Communist President 1945-.

Hogarth, William. 1697-1764. English satirical mural painter. Founded Royal Academy 1739. Rake’s Progress 1732. Marriage à la Mode 1744. Pantheon 1764.

Howells, Herbert. 1892-1983. British church music composer.

Hu Yaobang. 1915-89. Liberal Chinese Communist Party chairman. Death led to Tiananmen demonstrations.

Huai Hai, Battle. 1948-9. Chinese communists gain control of key routes.

Hudaybiyah, Pact of al-. 628. Muhammad and followers allowed into Mecca for pilgrimage. Hijrah.

Hukbalahap Rebellion. 1946-54. Unsuccessful Communist guerillas vs Roxas in Philippines.

Hume, David. 1711-76. Scottish empiricist philosopher and historian: On Human Nature 1739. Free-will. Behaviour results from innate character. God cannot be proved by reason, but we must believe in Him.

Husayn ibn Ali. 626-680. Shi’ite Moslem saint. Muhammad’s heir.

Husserl, Edmund. 1859-1938. German philosopher. Phenomenology.

Hutterites. 16C-. Communal Hungarian Anabaptist sect. 1870s moved to Western North America.

Hypatia. c370-415. Alexandrian Neoplatonic philosopher. Murdered by St. Cyril and monks. Decline of Alexandria as learning center.

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