Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Dr Rosemary Golding, Open University, UK

Volume 3: Thinking about Music

Introduction – Volume 3

Part 1. Music Criticism

1. 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

2. Anon., ‘Amateur Criticism’ in The Quarterly Musical Magazine and Review vol. 6 no. 22 (April 1824), Letter to the Editor from Adelos, pp. 171-177

3. Charles Kensington Salaman, ‘On Musical Criticism’ in Proceedings of the Musical Association 2nd session (1875-6), pp. 1–15

4. Edmund Gurney, ‘Musical Criticism’, The Power of Sound (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1880), pp. 524-539

5. John Stainer, ‘The principles of musical criticism’ in Proceedings of the Royal Musical Association 7th session (1880–1), pp. 35–52

6. Frederick Crowest, Phases of Musical England (London: Remington, 1881), Chapter 1 ‘Musical Criticism’ pp. 1-30

7. Charles V. Stanford ‘Some aspects of musical criticism in England’ in Fortnightly Review vol. 55 no. 330 (June 1894), pp. 826-31

8. John F. Runciman, ‘Musical Criticism and the Critics’ in The Fortnightly Review vol. 56 no. 332 (August 1894), pp. 170-183, and ‘The gentle art of musical criticism’ in The New Review vol. 12 (1895), pp. 612-624

9. Ernest Newman, Gluck and the Opera: a Study in Musical History (London: Bertram Dobell, 1895), ‘Introduction’ pp. 1-15

10. Edward A Baughan, ‘The Futility of Criticism’ in Monthly Musical Record vol. 27 no. 323 (November 1897), pp. 241-243

11. Hermann Klein, Thirty Years of Musical Life in London, 1870-1900 (New York: Century, 1903), pp. 42-58

12. Henry Davison, Music during the Victorian Era. From Mendelssohn to Wagner: Memoirs of J.W. Davison (London: Reeves, 1912), pp. 68-76

Part 2. Listening to Music

13. 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

14. 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), pp. 148-158

15. William Gardiner, ‘On the Faculties of the Ear’, The Music of Nature (London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman, 1832), pp. 2-11

16. Charles H. Purday, ‘Letter to the Editor’ in The Musical World vol. 3 no. 38, (2 December 1836), p. 191

17. 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

18. J.B. Macdonnell, ‘Classical Music and British Musical Taste’ in Macmillan's Magazine vol. 1 no. 5 (March 1860), pp. 383-389

19. H.R. Haweis, ‘The Listener’ and ‘Planes of Emotion’, in Music and Morals (London: Strahan & Co., 1871), pp. 94-100

20. Edmund Gurney, ‘The Two Ways of Hearing Music’, The Power of Sound (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1880), pp. 104-111

21. John Stainer, Music in its relation to the Intellect and the Emotions (London: Novello & Co., 1892), pp. 49-64

22. W.H. Hadow, ‘Faculties of Appreciation’, Studies in Modern Music second series (London: Seeley and Co., 1895), pp. 3-25

23. Herbert Francis Hayes Newington, ‘Some Mental Aspects of Music’ in Journal of Mental Science vol. 43 no. 183 (October 1897), pp. 704-723

Part 3. Music Education

24. Anne Gunn, An Introduction to Music (Edinburgh: C. Stewart & Co, 1803), pp. i-xiii

25. Richard Mackenzie Bacon [‘Vetus’], 'On the Objects of Musical Education' in The Quarterly Musical Magazine and Review vol. 1 no. 4 (October 1818), pp. 421-428

26. F.W. Horncastle, ‘Plan for the Formation of an English Conservatorio’ The Quarterly Musical Magazine and Review vol. 4 no. 14 (April 1822), pp. 129-133

27. Anon., ‘Musical tuition; Letter to the Editor from The Father of a Family’, The Quarterly Musical Magazine and Review vol. 6 no. 23 (1824), pp. 306-309

28. Eleanor Geary, Musical Education; with practical observations on the art of piano-forte playing (London: D’Almaine & Co., 1841), pp. 5-17

29. Olivia Dussek Buckley, Musical Truths; or, an Analysis of Music (London: published for the author, 1843), pp. 13-30

30. Joseph Mainzer, Music and Education (London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1848), pp. 88-96

31. John Hullah, Music as an Element of Education (London: John W. Parker and Son, 1854), p. 3-30

32. John Evans and W.G. McNaught, ‘Order and Manner of Teaching’, in The School Music Teacher (London: J. Curwen & Sons, 1888), pp. 255-268

33. Bettina Walker, My Musical Experiences (London: Richard Bentley and Son, 1890), pp. 15-31

34. C.F. Abdy Williams, ‘Development of the Modern Requirements for Musical Degrees’, A Short Historical Account of the Degrees in Music at Oxford and Cambridge (London and New York: Novello, Ewer & Co., 1893), pp. 40-44

35. Anon., ‘Mr. J. Spencer Curwen on the Tonic Sol-Fa Notation’ in Strand Musical Magazine vol. 1 no. 4 (April 1895), pp. 254-255

36. Charles Hallé, ‘The Royal Manchester College of Music’ in Strand Musical Magazine vol. 1 no. 5 (May 1895), pp. 323-329

Part 4. Theory and Philosophy

37. George Farquhar Graham, ‘Essay’, An Account of the first Edinburgh Musical Festival (Edinburgh: James Ballantyne & Co., 1816), pp. 139-142, 147-162

38. William Kitchener, Observations on Vocal Music (London: Hurst, Robinson & Co., and Edinburgh: Archibald Constable & Co., 1821), pp. 1-17

39. Lady Elizabeth Eastlake, 'Music' in The Quarterly Review vol. 83 issue 166 (August 1848), pp. 481-86, 509-515

40. Herbert Spencer ‘The Origin and Function of Music’ in Fraser’s Magazine (1857), pp. 396-408

41. Henry Wylde, ‘Music in its Art-Mission’, in Music in its Art-Mysteries (London: L. Booth, 1867), pp. 105-124

42. 4Henry C. Lunn, ‘Descriptive Music’ in The Musical Times and Singing Class Circular vol. 13 no. 310 (1 December 1868), pp. 599-601

43. Edmund Gurney, ‘On Some Disputed Points in Music’ in Fortnightly Review vol. 20 no. 115 (July 1876), pp. 106-130.

44. H. R. Haweis, My Musical Life (London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1884), Book 2 Part 2 ‘The Rationale of Music’ in pp. 136-159

45. Richard Wallaschek and James McKeen Cattell, ‘On the Origin of Music’ in Mind vol. 16 no. 63 (July 1891), pp. 375-388

46. C. Hubert H. Parry, The Art of Music (London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., 1893), Chapter 1 ‘Preliminaries’ pp. 1-15

47. Ebenezer Prout, ‘The Relation of Musical Theory to Practice’ in The Monthly Musical Record vol. 25 no. 292 (1 April 1895), pp. 73-77

48. 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

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