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Title:

British musical criticism and intellectual thought, 1850-1950 / edited by Jeremy Dibble and Julian Horton.

Publisher:

The Boydell Press,

Copyright Date:

2018

Description:

xv, 372 pages : illustrations, portraits, music ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Musical criticism--Great Britain--History--19th century.
Musical criticism--Great Britain--History--20th century.
Music critics--Great Britain--History--19th century.
Music critics--Great Britain--History--20th century.
Great Britain--History--History--19th century.
Great Britain--History--History--20th century.
Intellectual life.
Music critics.
Musical criticism.
Great Britain.
1800-1999
History.

Other Authors:

Dibble, Jeremy, editor.
Horton, Julian, editor.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-363) and index.

Contents:

Introduction: Trends in British musical thought, 1850-1950 / Jeremy Dibble and Julian Horton -- Avoiding "coarse invective" and "unseemly vehemence" : English music criticism, 1850-1870 / Peter Horton -- Spencer, sympathy and the Oxford school of music criticism / Bennett Zon -- Free thought and the musician : Ernest Walker, the "English Hanslick" / Jeremy Dibble -- Ernest Newman and the promise of method in biography, criticism and history / Paul Watt -- "Making symphony articulate" : Bernard Shaw's sense of music history / Harry White -- Analysis and value judgment : Schumann, Bruckner and Tovey's Essays in musical analysis / Julian Horton -- The scholar as critic : Edward J. Dent / Karen Arrandale -- Russia and Eastern Europe / Philip Ross Bullock -- Anti-intellectualism and the rhetoric of "national character" in music : the vulgarity of over-refinement / Sarah Collins -- Chosen causes : writings on music by Bernard van Dieren, Peter Warlock and Cecil Gray / Seamas de Barra -- "Es klang so alt und war doch so neu" : Vaughan Williams, aesthetics and history / Aidan J. Thomson -- Constant Lambert : a critic for today? a commentary on Music ho! / Christopher Mark -- The challenge to goodwill : Herbert Howells, Alban Berg and "the modern problem" / Jonathan Clinch -- Hans Keller : the making of an "anti-critic" / Patrick Zuk.

Series:

Music in Britain, 1600-2000

ISBN:

9781783272877
1783272872

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1013721681

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)