Music in Independent Schools

The first serious study of music in independent schools, which bears eloquent witness to a high standard achieved over the last fifty years.

List of contents

General Editor's Foreword
Editor's Introduction
Music and the English Public School: Early History
Visits to Various Public Schools in the Late Nineteenth Century: Sherbourne, Uppingham, Harrow, Rugby, Clifton, Wellington, Eton, Winchester
Music in our Public Schools (1894)
The Topic Debated in Music & Letters: Answers to a Questionnaire Distributed by Editor A. H. Fox Strangeways (1922)
The Oundle Phenomenon: Performances of Messiah and the B Minor Mass by the School (1922-3)
The Jubilee of the MMA (1952)
Public Schools and their Music (1927)
Boys and Music: Wellington, Harrow, Dulwich, Cheltenham, Marlborough (1936)
Bedford
Dulwich
Eton
Gresham's
St Paul's
Uppingham
Worksop
Girls' Schools
The Earliest Years: The Work of Sam Dixon at Brighton College
Preparatory Schools
Choir Schools
Specialist Schools
The Independent Schools Curriculum Committee
The Work of the Music Masters' and Mistresses' Association

About the author

Andrew Morris, Bernarr Rainbow, Peter Dickinson

Summary

The first serious study of music in independent schools, which bears eloquent witness to a high standard achieved over the last fifty years.

Product details

• Authors: Peter Dickinson, Andrew Morris, Bernarr Rainbow
• Assisted by: Peter Dickinson (Editor), Andrew Morris (Editor), Andrew (Person) Morris (Editor), Bernarr Rainbow (Editor)
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.08.2014
• EAN: 9781843839675
• ISBN: 978-1-84383-967-5
• No. of pages: 416
• Dimensions: 240 mm x 168 mm x 35 mm
• Weight: 1082 g
• Illustrations: 16 b/w.
• Series: Classic Texts in Music Education; Classic Texts in Music Education; Classic Texts in Music Educati
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Education > School education, didactics, methodology