ABSTRACT
An earlier example of fugal analysis in Britain may be seen in Samuel Wesley and C. F. Horn’s New and Correct Edition of the Preludes and Fugues of John Sebastian Bach, published in London. The principal representatives of the more rigorous technical study of music analysis in Britain were Edwin Evans senior and Charles F. Abdy Williams. The analyses proceed with the discussion and musical quotation of the principal subjects, and conclude with what Evans terms an ‘Epitome’ of the movement in which he quotes any subjects which have not already appeared in the preceding discussion, summarizes the key structure, time signature, noting any changes, and length, concluding with a final table of the ‘outline’ of the entire movement. At a conference of Sunday school teachers held in Hull in 1841 the Reverend John Curwen was assigned the task of finding the most appropriate method of teaching singing. His aims were therefore as much social and religious as purely musical.
