| Description |
xv, 372 pages : illustrations, portraits, music ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Music in Britain, 1600-2000,
2053-3217
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Music in Britain, 1600-2000.
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| Bibliography |
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 / Séamas 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. |
| Subject |
Musical criticism -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
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Musical criticism. |
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Great Britain. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| Subject |
Musical criticism -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.
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| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Music critics -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
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Music critics. |
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Music critics -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.
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Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- History -- 19th century.
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Intellectual life. |
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Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- History -- 20th century.
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| Chronological Term |
1800-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Added Author |
Dibble, Jeremy, editor.
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Horton, Julian, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Electronic version: British Musical Criticism and Intellectual Thought, 1850-1950. [Place of publication not identified] : Boydell and Brewer : Boydell Press, 2018 9781787442801 (OCoLC)1040032141 |
| ISBN |
9781783272877 (hardback) |
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1783272872 (hardback) |
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1787442802 (electronic book) |
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9781787442801 (electronic book) |
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