The Royal College of Music and its contexts : an artistic and social history / David C.H. Wright.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wright, David C. H., 1952- author.

Series:

Music since 1900

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Royal College of Music (Great Britain)--History.

Royal College of Music (Great Britain).

Conservatories of music--England--London--History.

Conservatories of music.

History.

England--London.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xix, 369 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020.

Summary:

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 of the College places it within its musical and educational environments. It argues that its significance lies not only in its famous performers and composers, but also in 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 amateurs. As a social and cultural history, this account also captures how significantly society's consumption of music - from new technologies to changing cultural 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 history traces the effects of these developments on the College's work.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9781107163386

1107163382

OCLC:

1090703340

Publisher Number:

99982910458