Music at Oxford in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries [Hardcover]

This survey distills a wide range of documentary and musical evidence relating to a particularly rich period in the city's history. Aspects discussed include concert life, the choral tradition, the gradual establishment of an honors school of music, visiting musicians such as Handel and Haydn, Liszt and Joachim, and the role of figures such as William Crotch, Frederick Ouseley and Hubert Parry in raising the status of music and the musical profession.

Preface
Bibliographical Note
Abbreviations
1.Part I The Eighteenth CenturyIntroduction: the Tradition before c.1600
2. Music in an Academic Context, I
3. Music in the University and City, II
4. Concert Life in Eighteenth-century Oxford
5. The Colleges, I
6. The Personalities: the Goodsons, William and Philip Hayes, Crotch and Malchair
7.Part II The Nineteenth CenturyMusic in an Academic Context, II
8. Music in the University and City, II
9. Nineteenth-Century Concert Life
10. The Colleges, II
11. Personalities: Bishop, Ouseley, Stainer, Parry, Parratt, and Allen
12. Epilogue: the tradition after c.1914
Bibliography

Susan Wollenberg's book is a delight. Her tone combines affection with scholarly impartiality Judgements and arguments are never overstated, always discriminating They constitute a substantial contribution to the new cultural history as well as an impeccably erudite chapter in the history of Oxford music. --Music and Letters