David C. H. Wright

Royal College of Music and its Contexts (eBook, ePUB)

An Artistic and Social History

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Located between the great Victorian museums of South Kensington and the Royal Albert Hall, the Royal College of Music, founded in 1883, has been a central influence on British musical life ever since. This wide-ranging account places the College within its musical and educational environments. It argues that the RCM's significance lies not only in its famous performers and composers, but also the generations of its more anonymous former students who have done so much to improve the musical life of the localities in which they have worked as teachers and animateurs. As a cultural history, this account also captures how significantly society's consumption of music - from new technologies to the altered perspectives of historical and world musics - has changed since the College was founded, and how very different our points of musical reference now are. This study traces the effects of such developments on the College's work.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. September 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781316732229
• Artikelnr.: 62751082

Autorenporträt

David C. H. Wright became Reader in the Social History of Music at the Royal College of Music, London after a professional life spent in both music college and university environments. His writings range from the culture and economics of Victorian music publishing to the Prom seasons of William Glock and Robert Ponsonby in The Proms: A New History (2007). In 2013, he published a social and cultural history of the Associated Boards of the Royal Schools of Music.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
beginnings and contexts, the themes of a history; Part I. Building and Consolidating (1883
1914): 1. The founding directors
George Grove and Hubert Parry; 2. The students; 3. Establishing the musical and educational ethos
concerts and curriculum; 4. The buildings and finances; Coda
the First World War; Part II. Renewal and conventionality (1919
60): 5. Hugh Allen's RCM and musical life between the wars, 1919
1937; 6. The years of austerity
George Dyson and Ernest Bullock, 1938
1960; Part III. Changing Musical Cultures (1960
1984): 7. Keith Falkner and rebuilding institutional confidence, 1960
1974; 8. Crossing the RCM century
David Willcocks, 1974
84; Part IV. Into its Second Century, 1984
2018: 9. A changed state of rivalry
the RAM, the 'centre of excellence' and the Gowrie review, 1982
92; 10. The new realities of accounting and assuring
securing the RCM's public funding in the 1990s; 11. Reimagining for the future; Epilogue
a prosopography.