Music at Oxford in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

ISBN-13: 9780193164086 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 280 str.

Susan Wollenberg

Opis

This survey distills a wide range of documentary and musical evidence relating to a particularly rich period in the city's history. Aspects discussed include concert life, the choral tradition, the gradual establishment of an honors school of music, visiting musicians such as Handel and Haydn, Liszt and Joachim, and the role of figures such as William Crotch, Frederick Ouseley and Hubert Parry in raising the status of music and the musical profession.

Recenzje

A lucidly written survey of the leading aspects of musical life in the city over more than two centuries ... it leads the reader through the old practices of musical life in sympathetic and enlightening fashion.

O autorze

University Lecturer in Music, Faculty of Music, University of Oxford (1972— ) Fellow and Tutor in music, Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford (1972— ) Director of Studies in Music, Brasenose College, Oxford (1987— ) Fellow Archivist, Lady Margaret Hall (1986— )