Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Plates
- General Editor's Foreword
- Editor's Introduction
- Biographical Notes
- List of Abbreviations
- PART I Studies from Music and the English Public School (1990)
- 1 Music and the English Public School: Early History
- 2 Visits to Various Public Schools in the Late Nineteenth Century: Sherborne, Uppingham, Harrow, Rugby, Clifton, Wellington, Eton, Winchester
- 3 Music in our Public Schools (1894)
- 4 The Topic Debated in Music & Letters: Answers to a Questionnaire Distributed by Editor A. H. Fox Strangways (1922)
- 5 The Oundle Phenomenon: Performances of Messiah and the B Minor Mass by the School (1922–3)
- 6 The Jubilee of the MMA (1952)
- 7 Public Schools and their Music (1927)
- 8 Boys and Music: Wellington, Harrow, Dulwich, Cheltenham, Marlborough (1936)
- PART II The New Millennium
- Index
- Appendix
1 - Music and the English Public School: Early History
from PART I - Studies from Music and the English Public School (1990)
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 October 2014
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Plates
- General Editor's Foreword
- Editor's Introduction
- Biographical Notes
- List of Abbreviations
- PART I Studies from Music and the English Public School (1990)
- 1 Music and the English Public School: Early History
- 2 Visits to Various Public Schools in the Late Nineteenth Century: Sherborne, Uppingham, Harrow, Rugby, Clifton, Wellington, Eton, Winchester
- 3 Music in our Public Schools (1894)
- 4 The Topic Debated in Music & Letters: Answers to a Questionnaire Distributed by Editor A. H. Fox Strangways (1922)
- 5 The Oundle Phenomenon: Performances of Messiah and the B Minor Mass by the School (1922–3)
- 6 The Jubilee of the MMA (1952)
- 7 Public Schools and their Music (1927)
- 8 Boys and Music: Wellington, Harrow, Dulwich, Cheltenham, Marlborough (1936)
- PART II The New Millennium
- Index
- Appendix
Summary
That essentially English but somewhat misleadingly named institution, the Public School, had its origins in a liberally endowed grammar school founded at Winchester in the fourteenth century. As early as 1369 William of Wykeham, bishop of Winchester and Chancellor of England, planned the establishment of a college at Oxford in close connection with a new school at Winchester. The joint enterprise was in fact delayed for some years by his political disgrace and downfall, but with the accession of Richard II in 1377, the bishop received a royal pardon and both projects went ahead. Within a few years what became known as New College, Oxford, and ‘Seint Marie College of Wynchestre’ were both established on a magnificent scale; the former with seventy youthful scholars to study law, philosophy, and theology, the latter with an equal number of boys from the middle classes ‘suffering from want of money’ who were to be taught grammar. In addition, there were places in the school for ten commoners, ‘sons of noble and powerful persons’. It was this last feature of the school's constitution, together with its independent and self-governing status, that separated it from other grammar schools of the day and led to the claim that here was to be found the ‘germ of the public school system’.
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- Music in Independent Schools , pp. 2 - 17Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2014