ABSTRACT
This volume of primary source material examine the thoughts and ideas behind music in Britian during the ninteenth century. Sources explore music critics, listening to music, music education, and philosophy. The collection of materials are accompanied by an introduction by Rosemary Golding, as well as headnotes contextualising the pieces. This collection will be of great value to students and scholars.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|139 pages
Music Criticism
chapter 1|11 pages
Anon. [Richard Mackenzie Bacon], ‘Plan of the Work’ and ‘First Lines of Vocal Criticism’
In The Quarterly Musical Magazine and Review vol. 1 no. 1 (January 1818), pp. 1–10 and 72–75
chapter 2|6 pages
Adelos, ‘Amateur Criticism’
In The Quarterly Musical Magazine and Review vol. 6 no. 22 (April 1824), pp. 171–177
chapter 3|14 pages
Charles Kensington Salaman, ‘On Musical Criticism’
In Proceedings of the Musical Association 2nd session (1875–1876), pp. 1–15
chapter 4|15 pages
Edmund Gurney, ‘Musical Criticism’
In The Power of Sound (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1880), Chapter 23 pp. 524–539
chapter 5|16 pages
John Stainer, ‘The Principles of Musical Criticism’
In Proceedings of the Royal Musical Association 7th session (1880–1881), pp. 35–52
chapter 6|12 pages
Frederick J. Crowest, ‘Musical Criticism’
In Phases of Musical England (London: Remington, 1881), Chapter 1 pp. 1–30
chapter 7|6 pages
C.V. Stanford, ‘Some Aspects of Musical Criticism in England’
In Fortnightly Review vol. 55 no. 330 (June 1894), pp. 826–831
chapter 8|27 pages
John F. Runciman, ‘Musical Criticism and the Critics’, and ‘The Gentle Art of Musical Criticism’
In The Fortnightly Review vol. 56 no. 332 (August 1894), pp. 170–183; and The New Review vol. 12 (1895), pp. 612–624
chapter 9|9 pages
Ernest Newman, ‘Introduction’ in Gluck and the Opera: A Study in Musical History
(London: Bertram Dobell, 1895), pp. 1–15
chapter 10|6 pages
Edward Baughan, ‘The Futility of Criticism’
In Monthly Musical Record vol. 27 no. 323 (November 1897), pp. 241–243
chapter 11|7 pages
Hermann Klein, Thirty Years of Musical Life in London, 1870–1900
(New York: Century, 1903), Chapter 3 pp. 42–58
chapter 12|8 pages
Henry Davison, Music during the Victorian Era. From Mendelssohn to Wagner: Memoirs of J.W. Davison
(London: Reeves, 1912), Chapter 6 pp. 68–76
part 2|92 pages
Listening to Music
chapter 13|12 pages
W.H. [William Henry], ‘Cursory Remarks on Music, Especially on the Sources of the Pleasure Which It Communicates’
In Edinburgh Monthly Magazine vol. 1 no. 4 (July–August 1817), pp. 343–347 and 459–462
chapter 14|5 pages
William Crotch, ‘On the Present State of the Public Taste of this Nation’
In Substance of Several Courses of Lectures on Music (London, Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1831), Chapter 6 pp. 148–158
chapter 15|6 pages
William Gardiner, ‘On the Faculties of the Ear’
In The Music of Nature (London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman, 1832), Chapter 1 pp. 2–11
chapter 16|3 pages
Charles H. Purday, ‘Letter to the Editor’
In The Musical World vol. 3 no. 38 (2 December 1836), p. 191
chapter 17|4 pages
Vernon, ‘The Influence of Music on the Public’
In The Musical Times and Singing Class Circular vol. 5 no. 100 (1 September 1852), pp. 59–60
chapter 18|9 pages
M. [J.B. Macdonnell], ‘Classical Music and British Musical Taste’
In Macmillan's Magazine vol. 1 no. 5 (March 1860), pp. 383–389
chapter 19|5 pages
H.R. Haweis, ‘The Listener’ And ‘Planes of Emotion’
In Music and Morals (London: Strahan & Co., 1871), Chapter 8 pp. 94–97 and 97–100
chapter 20|8 pages
Edmund Gurney, ‘The Two Ways of Hearing Music’
In The Power of Sound (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1880), Chapter 13 pp. 104–111
chapter 21|9 pages
John Stainer, Music in Its Relation to the Intellect and the Emotions
(London: Novello & Co., 1892), pp. 49–64
chapter 22|12 pages
W.H. Hadow, ‘Faculties of Appreciation’
In Studies in Modern Music 2nd series (London: Seeley and Co., 1895), Chapter 1 pp. 3–25
chapter 23|17 pages
H. Hayes Newington, ‘Some Mental Aspects of Music’
In Journal of Mental Science vol. 43 no. 183 (October 1897), pp. 704–723
part 3|110 pages
Music Education
chapter 24|5 pages
Anne Gunn, ‘Preface’ in An Introduction to Music
(Edinburgh: C. Stewart & Co, 1803), pp. i–xiii
chapter 25|6 pages
Vetus [Richard Mackenzie Bacon], ‘On the Objects of Musical Education’
In The Quarterly Musical Magazine and Review vol. 1 no. 4 (October 1818), pp. 421–428
chapter 26|5 pages
F.W.H. [F.W. Horncastle], ‘Plan for the Formation of an English Conservatorio’
In The Quarterly Musical Magazine and Review vol. 4 no. 14 (April 1822), pp. 129–133
chapter 27|4 pages
Anon., ‘Musical Tuition’
Letter to the Editor from the Father of a Family in The Quarterly Musical Magazine and Review vol. 6 no. 23 (1824), pp. 306–309
chapter 28|6 pages
Eleanor Geary, Musical Education; with Practical Observations on the Art of Piano-Forte Playing
(London: D'Almaine & Co., 1841), First Part pp. 5–17
chapter 29|9 pages
Olivia Dussek Buckley, Musical Truths; or, an Analysis of Music
(London: published for the author, 1843), pp. 13–30
chapter 30|8 pages
Joseph Mainzer, Music and Education
(London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1848), Chapter 10 pp. 88–96
chapter 31|14 pages
John Hullah, Music as an Element of Education
(London: John W. Parker and Son, 1854), pp. 3–30
chapter 32|16 pages
Duke of Edinburgh, Duke of Albany and Prince Christian, Music in England, and The Proposed Royal College of Music: Three Addresses
(London: John Murray, 1882)
chapter 33|8 pages
John Evans and W.G. McNaught, ‘Order and Manner of Teaching’
In The School Music Teacher (London: J. Curwen & Sons, 1888), Chapter 9 pp. 255–268
chapter 34|7 pages
Bettina Walker, My Musical Experiences
(London: Richard Bentley and Son, 1890), pp. 15–31
chapter 35|5 pages
C.F. Abdy Williams, ‘Development of the Modern Requirements for Musical Degrees’
In A Short Historical Account of the Degrees in Music at Oxford and Cambridge (London and New York: Novello, Ewer & Co., 1893), Chapter 6 pp. 40–44
chapter 36|5 pages
Anon., ‘Mr. J. Spencer Curwen on the Tonic Sol-Fa Notation’
In Strand Musical Magazine vol. 1 no. 4 (April 1895), pp. 254–255
chapter 37|10 pages
Charles Hallé, ‘The Royal Manchester College of Music’
In Strand Musical Magazine vol. 1 no. 5 (May 1895), pp. 323–329
part 4|132 pages
Theory and Philosophy
chapter 38|8 pages
George Farquhar Graham, ‘Essay’ in An Account of the First Edinburgh Musical Festival
(Edinburgh: James Ballantyne & Co., 1816), pp. 139–142, 147–162
chapter 39|6 pages
William Kitchiner, Observations on Vocal Music
(London: Hurst, Robinson & Co., and Edinburgh: Archibald Constable & Co., 1821), pp. 1–17
chapter 40|12 pages
Anon. [Elizabeth Eastlake], ‘Music’
In The Quarterly Review vol. 83 no. 166 (August 1848), pp. 481–486, 509–515
chapter 41|17 pages
H.S. [Herbert Spencer], ‘The Origin and Function of Music’
In Fraser's Magazine (1857), pp. 396–408
chapter 42|10 pages
Henry Wylde, ‘Music in Its Art-Mission’
In Music in Its Art-Mysteries (London: L. Booth, 1867), Chapter 8 pp. 105–124
chapter 43|6 pages
Henry C. Lunn, ‘Descriptive Music’
In The Musical Times and Singing Class Circular vol. 13 no. 310 (1 December 1868), pp. 599–601
chapter 44|23 pages
Edmund Gurney, ‘On Some Disputed Points in Music’
In Fortnightly Review vol. 20 no. 115 (July 1876), pp. 106–130
chapter 45|11 pages
H.R. Haweis, ‘The Rationale of Music’
In My Musical Life (London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1884), Book 2 Part 2 pp. 136–159
chapter 46|14 pages
Richard Wallaschek and James McKeen Cattell, ‘On the Origin of Music’
In Mind vol. 16 no. 63 (July 1891), pp. 375–388
chapter 47|10 pages
C. Hubert H. Parry, ‘Preliminaries’ in The Art of Music
(London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., 1893), Chapter 1 pp. 1–15
chapter 48|10 pages
Ebenezer Prout, ‘The Relation of Musical Theory to Practice’
In The Monthly Musical Record vol. 25 no. 292 (1 April 1895), pp. 73–77
chapter 49|3 pages
Samuel Coleridge Taylor, ‘On Music’
Address to students at Streatham School of Music (November 1905), reprinted in Berwick Sayers, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Musician: His Life & Letters (London 1915), pp. 177–179
