Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- List of Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Trends in British Musical Thought, 1850–1950
- 1 Avoiding ‘Coarse Invective’ and ‘Unseemly Vehemence’: English Music Criticism, 1850–1870
- 2 Spencer, Sympathy and the Oxford School of Music Criticism
- 3 Free Thought and the Musician: Ernest Walker, the ‘English Hanslick’
- 4 Ernest Newman and the Promise of Method in Biography, Criticism and History
- 5 ‘Making Symphony Articulate’: Bernard Shaw's Sense of Music History
- 6 Analysis and Value Judgement: Schumann, Bruckner and Tovey's Essays in Musical Analysis
- 7 The Scholar as Critic: Edward J. Dent
- 8 Russia and Eastern Europe
- 9 Anti-Intellectualism and the Rhetoric of ‘National Character’ in Music: The Vulgarity of Over-Refinement
- 10 Chosen Causes: Writings on Music by Bernard van Dieren, Peter Warlock and Cecil Gray
- 11 ‘Es klang so alt und war doch so neu’: Vaughan Williams, Aesthetics and History
- 12 Constant Lambert: A Critic for Today? A Commentary on Music Ho!
- 13 The Challenge to Goodwill: Herbert Howells, Alban Berg and ‘The Modern Problem’
- 14 Hans Keller: The Making of an ‘Anti-Critic’
- Select Bibliography
- Index
- Titles listed here were originally published
Acknowledgements
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 July 2019
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- List of Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Trends in British Musical Thought, 1850–1950
- 1 Avoiding ‘Coarse Invective’ and ‘Unseemly Vehemence’: English Music Criticism, 1850–1870
- 2 Spencer, Sympathy and the Oxford School of Music Criticism
- 3 Free Thought and the Musician: Ernest Walker, the ‘English Hanslick’
- 4 Ernest Newman and the Promise of Method in Biography, Criticism and History
- 5 ‘Making Symphony Articulate’: Bernard Shaw's Sense of Music History
- 6 Analysis and Value Judgement: Schumann, Bruckner and Tovey's Essays in Musical Analysis
- 7 The Scholar as Critic: Edward J. Dent
- 8 Russia and Eastern Europe
- 9 Anti-Intellectualism and the Rhetoric of ‘National Character’ in Music: The Vulgarity of Over-Refinement
- 10 Chosen Causes: Writings on Music by Bernard van Dieren, Peter Warlock and Cecil Gray
- 11 ‘Es klang so alt und war doch so neu’: Vaughan Williams, Aesthetics and History
- 12 Constant Lambert: A Critic for Today? A Commentary on Music Ho!
- 13 The Challenge to Goodwill: Herbert Howells, Alban Berg and ‘The Modern Problem’
- 14 Hans Keller: The Making of an ‘Anti-Critic’
- Select Bibliography
- Index
- Titles listed here were originally published
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- Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2018