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The English Musical Renaissance and the Press 1850-1914: Watchmen of Music (Hardcover, New Ed)
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The English Musical Renaissance and the Press 1850-1914: Watchmen of Music (Hardcover, New Ed)
Series: Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain
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The importance of nineteenth-century writing about culture has long
been accepted by scholars, yet so far as music criticism is
concerned, Victorian England has been an area of scholarly neglect.
This state of affairs is all the more surprising given that the
quantity of such criticism in the Victorian and Edwardian press was
vast, much of it displaying a richness and diversity of critical
perspectives. Through the study of music criticism from several key
newspapers and journals (specifically The Times, Daily Telegraph,
Athenaeum and The Musical Times), this book examines the reception
history of new English music in the period surveyed and assesses
its cultural, social and political, importance. Music critics
projected and promoted English composers to create a national music
of which England could be proud. J A Fuller Maitland, critic on The
Times, described music journalists as 'watchmen on the walls of
music', and Meirion Hughes extends this metaphor to explore their
crucial role in building and safeguarding what came to be known as
the English Musical Renaissance. Part One of the book looks at the
critics in the context of the publications for which they worked,
while Part Two focuses on the relationship between the
watchmen-critics and three composers: Arthur Sullivan, Hubert Parry
and Edward Elgar. Hughes argues that the English Musical
Renaissance was ultimately a success thanks largely to the work of
the critics. In so doing, he provides a major re-evaluation of the
impact of journalism on British music history.
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