Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction and Acknowledgements
- Bernarr Rainbow: A Biographical Note
- Part I Five Bernarr Rainbow Lectures
- Part II The 2005 Royal Philharmonic Society Lecture
- Part III A 2013 Perspective
- Part IV Three Views on Music Education
- Part V Two Reviews of Bernarr Rainbow on Music
- The Wrong Title?
- An American Perspective
- Appendices
- Index
The Wrong Title?
from Part V - Two Reviews of Bernarr Rainbow on Music
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 October 2013
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction and Acknowledgements
- Bernarr Rainbow: A Biographical Note
- Part I Five Bernarr Rainbow Lectures
- Part II The 2005 Royal Philharmonic Society Lecture
- Part III A 2013 Perspective
- Part IV Three Views on Music Education
- Part V Two Reviews of Bernarr Rainbow on Music
- The Wrong Title?
- An American Perspective
- Appendices
- Index
Summary
Music and Letters 93.2
(August 2012), pp. 241–3
Nicholas Temperley is English by birth and holds a PhD from Cambridge University. From 1967 to 1996 he was a professor at the University of Illinois. He has published extensively as a musicologist and has been remarkably influential in raising the profile of nineteenth-century British music. He has written two seminal books in the field of religious music: The Music of the English Parish Church (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979), and Studies in English Church Music (Farnham: Ashgate, 2009). Temperley created and continues to direct the Hymn Tune Index, an online catalogue of all tunes published for use with English-language hymns between 1535 and 1820. He is now co-editing the first critical edition of the popular sixteenth-century Sternhold and Hopkins psalm book.
Bernarr Rainbow on Music: Memoirs and Selected Writings. By Bernarr Rainbow, with introductions by Gordon Cox and Charles Plummeridge, edited by Peter Dickinson, pp. xiii + 398 (The Boydell Press, Woodbridge, 2010, £25. ISBN 978-1-84383-592-9.)
Bernarr rainbow (1914–98) was an important figure in English musical life, and it has been well worthwhile assembling this tribute to his work. It takes an unconventional form: two introductory assessments; an unfinished autobiographical memoir; a reprint of Rainbow's biography of John Curwen; and a miscellany of his shorter articles and reviews. Although the editors are naturally motivated by respect and warm feeling for their subject, their comments include some critical appraisal as well.
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- Music Education in CrisisThe Bernarr Rainbow Lectures and Other Assessments, pp. 153 - 160Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2013