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Robin Darwall-Smith, Susan Wollenberg - Music in Twentieth-Century Oxford: New Directions, Inbunden

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Music in Twentieth-Century Oxford: New Directions

Av Robin Darwall-Smith, Susan Wollenberg

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The first book-length study of musical education and culture in twentieth-century Oxford.Music has always played a central role in the life of Oxford, in both the city and university, through the great collegiate choral foundations, the many amateur choirs and instrumentalists, and the professional musicians regularly drawn to perform there. Oxford, with its collegiate system and centuries-long tradition of musical activity, presents a distinctive and multi-layered picture of the role of music in urban culture and university life. The chapters in this book shed light on music's unique ability to link 'town and gown', as shown by the Oxford Bach Choir, the city's many churches, and the major choral foundations. The twentieth century saw the emergence of new musical initiatives and the book traces the development of these, including the University's Faculty of Music and the University Opera Club. Further, it explores music in the newly-founded women's colleges, contrasted with the musical society formed in 1930 at University College, an ancient men's college. The work of Oxford composers, including George Butterworth, Nicola Lefanu, Edmund Rubbra, and William Walton, as well as the composer for several 'Carry on' films, Bruce Montgomery, is surveyed. Two remarkable figures, Sir Hugh Allen and Sir Jack Westrup, recur throughout the book in a variety of contexts. The volume is indispensable reading for scholars and students of musical life in twentieth-century Britain, as well as those interested generally in the history of Oxford's thriving cultural life.
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  • Utgivningsdatum: 2023-04-18
  • Mått: 156 x 234 x 23 mm
  • Vikt: 682 g
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 278
  • Förlag: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
  • ISBN: 9781783277247
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ROBIN DARWALL-SMITH is Archivist of University and Jesus Colleges, Oxford. He has also been Archivist of Magdalen College. SUSAN WOLLENBERG is Emeritus Professor of Music, University of Oxford, as well as Emeritus Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall. ROBIN DARWALL-SMITH is Archivist of University and Jesus Colleges, Oxford. He has also been Archivist of Magdalen College. SUSAN WOLLENBERG is Emeritus Professor of Music, University of Oxford, as well as Emeritus Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall. PETER WARD JONES is the retired Music Librarian of the Bodleian Library, Oxford, a former Fellow of St Cross College and ex-organ scholar of Balliol College. He has a lifelong experience as organist/choirmaster and conductor of choral societies. Publications include The Mendelssohns on Honeymoon: The 1837 Diary of Felix and Cécile Mendelssohn Bartholdy; Catalogue of the Mendelssohn Papers in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, vol. 3, and numerous contributions to encyclopaedias, journals, Festschriften and other works of joint authorship, including a chapter in Music in Twentieth-Century Oxford (Boydell, 2023). IAN MAXWELL is an Honorary Research Fellow, Music Department, University of Sheffield.

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The volume is a worthy successor to Susan Wollenberg's earlier monograph on Oxford (Music at Oxford in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, 2001), and also a fitting response to the lament that 'music received only an occasional passing mention' in The History of the University of Oxford, vol. 8, The Twentieth Century (1994).

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