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
2 - Visits to Various Public Schools in the Late Nineteenth Century: Sherborne, Uppingham, Harrow, Rugby, Clifton, Wellington, Eton, Winchester
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
The series of articles contributed anonymously by John Graham to the Tonic Sol-fa Reporter and its successor, the Musical Herald, between 1888 and 1892 provide the eye-witness accounts incorporated in this chapter. The first school to be visited was Sherborne. [BR]
Sherborne in 1888
Tonic Sol-fa Reporter, August 1888, pp. 466–8
It is often taken for granted that, while elementary schools give music a fair share of attention, the art is neglected to a large extent in the curriculum of the great public schools of the country. The idea has got abroad that there is a lack of musical interest among high-school boys. Mr Joseph Barnby said recently that about ninety per cent of the boys at Eton College had no musical ear. This is not as it should be. It will be well to enquire the reason for this state of things. If the children of the poor can learn to sing so generally and so readily, it is evident that the youth of England have a latent talent for music, and the grand old doctrine, that singing is a universal privilege, must be preached until there is a great awakening among the schools of the upper classes. But before assuming that these schools are in a state of musical heathendom, it should be known what is their actual condition. Possibly they have some sort of music, and at least the experiences of the professors at these institutions deserve consideration.
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- Music in Independent Schools , pp. 18 - 51Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2014