Music analysis in Britain in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
By: Catherine Dale
Series: Music in 19th-century Britain; Music in nineteenth-century Britain
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Aldershot, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
Subjects: Musical analysis -- Great Britain -- History; Music -- Great Britain -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Music -- Great Britain -- 20th century -- History and criticism
Description: "Nineteenth-century Britain has often been regarded as a 'land without music' and without 'music analysis' also. This book aims to disprove this notion by reference to the rigorous scientific analytical methods of Williams, Evans and Prout, the pedagogical methods of Hullah, Glover and Curwen and the analytical concert programme notes of Davison, Bennett and Grove.

It concludes with a consideration of Tovey, the 'grand old man of British analytical history', and attempts to show the derivation of his methods from these earlier nineteenth-century practices."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-221) and index