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Music at Oxford in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

Author(s): Susan Wollenberg
ISBN10: 0193164086
ISBN13: 9780193164086
Cover: Hardcover
 
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SummaryTable of Contents
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.
List of Plates
xvii
List of Figures
xviii
List of Music Examples
xix
Abbreviations xxi
Bibliographical Note and University Terms xxiii
Part I The Eighteenth Century
Introduction: The Tradition before c. 1660
3(5)
Music in an Academic Context, I
8(27)
Music in the University and City, I
35(9)
Concert Life in Eighteenth-Century Oxford
44(31)
The Colleges, I
75(12)
Personalities: The Goodsons, William and Philip Hayes, Crotch, and Malchair
87(10)
Part II The Nineteenth Century
Music in an Academic Context, II
97(33)
Music in the University and City, II
130(12)
Nineteenth-Century Concert Life
142(40)
The Colleges, II
182(21)
Personalities: Bishop, Ouseley, Stainer, Parry, Parratt, and Allen
203(19)
Epilogue: The Tradition after c.1914
222(3)
Acknowledgements and Sources for Illustrations 225(2)
Bibliography 227(10)
Index 237

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