The Classics of Music
Talks, Essays, and Other Writings Previously Uncollected
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 13 September 2001
- ISBN 9780198162148
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages864 pages
- Size 242x164x53 mm
- Weight 1473 g
- Language English
- Illustrations numerous music examples, 10 halftones, 1 table 0
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Short description:
The Classics of Music assembles here for the first time all of Tovey's significant writings not previously available as a collection. For much of the twentieth century, Donald Francis Tovey (1875-1940) has been Britain's most celebrated and influential writer on music, largely as a result of the considerable corpus of his work published by Oxford University Press in the 1930s and 1940s. However, as a prolific and popular lecturer, broadcaster, and essayist, Tovey left many writings unpublished at the time of his death. All the writings here are characteristically stimulating and stylish, making this essential collection available to a new generation of musicians.
MoreLong description:
For much of the twentieth century, Donald Francis Tovey (1875-1940) was Britain's most celebrated and influential writer on music, largely as a result of the considerable corpus of his work published by Oxford University Press in the 1930s and posthumously in the 1940s. However, as a prolific and popular lecturer, broadcaster, and essayist, he left many scattered writings which the Press did not publish in those years. With the sole exceptions of the Bach and Beethoven commentaries written for the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music, The Classics of Music assembles here for the first time all the significant completed public writings of Tovey which have not appeared heretofore under the Oxford imprint. Initially edited by Michael Tilmouth, late Tovey Professor of Music at the University of Edinburgh, the volume has been completed by David Kimbell and Roger Savage, also of Edinburgh - the institution at which Tovey himself held the Reid Chair of Music from 1914.
Here, then, are over seventy essays in musical analysis; fifteen composer-articles for the Encyclopaedia Britannica; two complete lecture series (one of them a sophisticated exploration of key-relationships in Beethoven); a sequence of radio talks for the ordinary listener; a survey of German music from the Renaissance to Hugo Wolf; and two dozen other essays, papers, scholarly reviews, and affectionate obituaries. All new Tovey - and all characteristically stimulating and stylish - making this essential collection available to a new generation of musicians.
The Classics of Music offers a discussion of Beethoven, and the composers a hundred years on either side of him, in such a way that Tovey emerges with ever greater clarity as an educated, articulate, and astute commentator on the works that - still - form the cornerstone of Western art music. It is a project that was well worth undertaking and well worth completing.
Table of Contents:
I. Essays in Musical Analysis
II. Tovey as Journalist, Reviewer, and Obituarist (1902-1907, 1926-1934)
III. Composer-Articles in the Encyclopaedia Britannica (1929)
IV. Two Lecture Series from the 1920s
V. Broadcast Talks for the BBC in the 1920s
VI. Pieces on Several Occasions (1899-1939)
Index of Names
Index of Musical Ideas
