Music at Oxford in the Eighteenth and

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.

Susan Wollenberg is a University Lecturer in the Faculty of Music, University of Oxford.

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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Music at Oxford in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

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