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This collection provides an in-depth look at musical criticism between the mid-nineteenth and the mid-twentieth century.
List of contents
Introduction: Trends in British Musical Thought, 1850-1950 - Jeremy Dibble and Julian Horton
Avoiding 'Coarse Invective' and 'Unseemly Vehemence': English Music Criticism, 1850-1870 - Peter Horton
Spencer, Sympathy and the Oxford School of Music Criticism - Bennett Zon
Free Thought and the Musician: Ernest Walker, the 'English Hanslick' - Jeremy Dibble
Ernest Newman and the Promise of Method in Biography, Criticism and History - Paul Watt
'Making Symphony Articulate': Bernard Shaw's Sense of Music History - Harry White
Analysis and Value Judgment: Schumann, Bruckner and Tovey's
Essays in Musical Analysis - Julian Horton
The Scholar as Critic: Edward J. Dent - Karen Arrandale
Russia and Eastern Europe - Philip Ross Bullock
Anti-Intellectualism and the Rhetoric of 'National Character' in Music: The Vulgarity of Over-Refinement - Sarah Collins
Chosen Causes: Writings on Music by Bernard van Dieren, Peter Warlock and Cecil Gray - Séamas de Barra
'Es klang so alt und war doch so neu': Vaughan Williams, Aesthetics and History - Aidan J. Thomson
Constant Lambert: A Critic for Today? A Commentary on
Music Ho! - Christopher Mark
The Challenge to Goodwill: Herbert Howells, Alban Berg and 'The Modern Problem' - Jonathan Clinch
Hans Keller: The Making of an 'Anti-Critic' -
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Jeremy Dibble, Julian Horton
Summary
This collection provides an in-depth look at musical criticism between the mid-nineteenth and the mid-twentieth century.
