Music in Twentieth-Century Oxford: New Directions

The first book length study of musical education and culture in twentieth century Oxford.

List of contents

Foreword - Eric Clarke

1. Setting the Scene - Robin Darwall-Smith and Susan Wollenberg

Part I - Town and Gown
2. Music in the Town - Robin Darwall-Smith and Susan Wollenberg
3. The Oxford Bach Choir, 1896-1997 - Robin Darwall-Smith
4. Music in the City Churches - Peter Ward Jones

Part II - Collegiate Music-Making
5. The Choral Foundations - Timothy Day
6. Music in the Oxford Women's Colleges, 1879-1939 -Susan Wollenberg and Melanie von Goldbeck
7.The Balliol Concerts - Susan Wollenberg
8. The University College Musical Society, 1930-2000 - Robin Darwall-Smith

Part III - University Institutions
9. The Oxford University Opera Club - Susan Wollenberg with an afterword by Michael Burden
10. The Development of the Faculty of Music - Susan Wollenberg
11. Oxford Composers - John Caldwell
12. 'For the purpose of encouraging the practice and knowledge of chamber music': The Oxford & Cambridge Musical Club, 1899-1940 - Ian Maxwell

Index

About the author

Edited by Robin Darwall-Smith and Susan Wollenberg

Summary

The first book length study of musical education and culture in twentieth century Oxford.

Product details

• Assisted by: Dr Robin (Author) Darwall-Smith (Editor), Robin Darwall-Smith (Editor), Robin (Author) Darwall-Smith (Editor), Susan Wollenberg (Editor)
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.04.2023
• EAN: 9781783277247
• ISBN: 978-1-78327-724-7
• No. of pages: 278
• Dimensions: 244 mm x 164 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 556 g
• Illustrations: 24 b/w illus.
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Pre and early history