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A memoir by the renowned historian of music education, Bernarr Rainbow, including a selection of his writings and a biographical introduction by Peter Dickinson.
List of contents
Introductions by Gordon Cox and Charles Plummeridge
Part I: A Salute to Life
Part II: John Curwen A Short Critical Biography
That Great Dust-Heap called 'History' [1992]
Historical Research [1992]
Count Leo Tolstory: Music Teacher [1980]
The Land with Music: Reality and Myth in Music Education [1988]
The French Revolution and Music Teaching: A Bicentennial Review [1989]
An Excellency in Musick [1957]
The Glass Harmonicon Rediscovered [1974]
The Miseries of Musick Masters [1986]
The Rise of Popular Music Education in Nineteenth-Century England [1986]
Plato and Music Today [1981]
Onward from Butler: School Music [1985] with a postscript by Walter Heise
Freedom and its Price [1989]
Some New Music Teaching Devices from France [1961]
Curwen, Kodaly and the Future [1979]
An Ear for Music [1980]
The New Curwen Method: A Partnership of Ear, Eye and Voice [1988]
Sol-Fa as an Ethnic Link [1982]
The Kodaly Concept and its Pedigree [1990]
Cheironomy [1979]
Victorian Street Music [1998]
The English Promenade Concert [1995-6]
Thomas Helmore and the Anglican Plainsong Revival [1959]
Notes from Two French Organ Lofts [1961]
William Dyce [1964]
Walmisley's Psychedelic Magnificat [1980]
The Hymn-Singing American [1982]
Charity Children: Singing for their Supper [1984]
John Jebb [1805-86] and the Choral Service [1986]
In Quires and Places Where They Sing: Some Historical Aspects of Anglican Church Music [1995]
Review: R.M. Wilson,
Anglican Chant and Chanting in England, Scotland and America, 1660-1820 [1998]
Summary
A memoir by the renowned historian of music education, Bernarr Rainbow, including a selection of his writings and a biographical introduction by Peter Dickinson.
