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Author:   Michael Allis ,  Paul Watt
Publisher:   Clemson University Digital Press
Imprint:   Clemson University Digital Press
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9781638040934

ISBN 10:   1638040931
Pages:   312
Publication Date:   18 June 2024
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction Michael Allis: Thompson’s Reminiscences Paul Watt: Thompson’s Music Criticism Herbert Thompson’s Reminiscences, ed. by Michael Allis Editorial Notes Reminiscences Text Herbert Thompson’s Music Criticism: A Selection, ed. by Paul Watt Note on the Text *Preparatory Method of Musical Instruction * Roubiliac’s Sculpture of Handel; Handel Festivals Leeds Festival “Music for Children” “Saxophone Recital in Leeds” The Music and Musical Instruments of Southern India; Wagner’s Prose Writings Opening of New Buildings at the Royal College of Music Hereford Festival New Quarterly Musical Review The Leeds Musical Festival Conductorship Church Music; The Chord Magazine National and Local Orchestras; Carl Rosa Opera Company Annual Conference of Musicians; Expertise of Vocalists W. H. Hadow’s Leeds Lecture Cowen’s Concertstück for Piano Music for the Unscientific The Oxford History of Music Leeds Festival Finances Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius in Düsseldorf Leeds Musicians Old English Ballads Covent Garden Opera Season British Musicians Studying Abroad; Municipal Theatres Death of A. E. Rodewald; Music in Liverpool and Leeds Hector Berlioz Centenary International Musical Society; Design of Auditoriums Music in Elementary Schools Speech by Henry Coward on British Composers; Savoy Operas “Living Masters of Music” Essays; Henry Wood as a Conductor Conference on the Incorporated Society of Musicians, Manchester; Municipal Orchestras German Music Critics Tyranny of the Choir Elgar’s Professorship at the University of Birmingham Gregorian Chant National Opera; Musical Technique Music Festival Proposed for Newcastle W. J. Galloway’s Musical England “Wagner’s Ring at Leeds” Covent Garden Opera: English Translations of Libretti; French Grand Opera Finances Analytical Programme Notes Music in Wartime Music in Wartime Committee Music Competition Festivals British Music Society The Ban on German Music Colour and Music The Trials of the Concert Promoter; A New Bishop at Oxford Programme Music Music in Public Schools “Bradford Permanent Orchestra. Women as Violinists” The Efficient Training of Conductors Jazz “Notes on Concert-Hall Acoustics” The Dolmetsch Foundation Opera’s Fate in the North; Poor Support in Leeds and Bradford; Carl Rosa Company “Writing the History of Music” Some Commentators on Berlioz; A Diversity of Opinions “Handel’s Music in England” Appendix: Thompson’s timings for performances of Bach’s B minor Mass

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Michael Allis is Professor of Musicology at the University of Leeds. He has published widely on a range of British composers, including the books Parry’s Creative Process (2003) and Granville Bantock’s Letters to William Wallace and Ernest Newman, 1893-1921 (2017). Often incorporating an interdisciplinary approach, as in his 2012 book British Music and Literary Context, and studies of musical refigurings of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Tennyson, Poe, Villon, Southey and Shelley, he has also explored the role of music in the writings of Aldous Huxley, Aleister Crowley and Robertson Davies. He is currently working on a study of Bantock’s literature-inspired orchestral works. Paul Watt is an Adjunct Professor of Musicology at The University of Adelaide and Director of Research at the Busking Project, Berlin. He is the author of three books, Ernest Newman: A Critical Biography (2017), The Regulation and Reform of Music Criticism in In Nineteenth-Century England (2018), and Music, Morality and Social Reform in Nineteenth-Century Britain (2023) He currently writing a history of Gregorian chant in Australia.

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