For much of the twentieth century, Donald Francis Tovey (1875-1940) has been Britain's most celebrated and influential writer on music. However, as a prolific and popular lecturer, broadcaster, conductor, and essayist, Tovey left many writings unpublished at the time of his death. The Classics of Music assembles here for the first time seventy of Tovey's significant writings not previously available as a collection. 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.
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"In an age in which writings on music are generally discussed under the rubric 'research activity', it is both refreshing and heart-warming to have The Classics of Music on my desk: a work that has evidently been a labour of love at every step of its creation, from the writing of its constituent texts in the first part of the twentieth century, to their preservation by archivists at Edinburgh University after the author's death in 1940, to its preparation in book form by two generations of scholars."--Music and Letters
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Donald Francis Tovey was Reid Professor of Music at the University of Edinburgh from 1914 until his death in 1940
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cembalo stop, ordinary pianoforte, flat supertonic, pianoforte style, very remote key, violoncello sonata, pianoforte works, musical illustration, violoncello part, home tonic, absolute musician, pianoforte music, pianoforte part, contradictory keys, pianoforte sonatas, upper keyboard, upper manual, modern pianoforte, pianoforte concerto, opening tutti, reciting note, transition theme, classical tonality, harmonic facts, sonata style Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
University of Edinburgh, Reid Orchestra, Tovey Archive, Seventh Symphony, Ninth Symphony, Philipp Emanuel Bach, Herr Nikisch, Reid Library, Johann Sebastian Bach, Richard Strauss, Fuller Maitland, Reid Concert, Sir Charles, Herr Weingartner, Joachim Quartet, Don Giovanni, Fanny Davies, Herr Strauss, Prince of Venosa, Fourth Symphony, Roman Catholic, Edinburgh University, Historical Concerts, Joseph Joachim, Robert Schumann New!
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cembalo stop, ordinary pianoforte, flat supertonic, pianoforte style, very remote key, violoncello sonata, pianoforte works, musical illustration, violoncello part, home tonic, absolute musician, pianoforte music, pianoforte part, contradictory keys, pianoforte sonatas, upper keyboard, upper manual, modern pianoforte, pianoforte concerto, opening tutti, reciting note, transition theme, classical tonality, harmonic facts, sonata style Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
University of Edinburgh, Reid Orchestra, Tovey Archive, Seventh Symphony, Ninth Symphony, Philipp Emanuel Bach, Herr Nikisch, Reid Library, Johann Sebastian Bach, Richard Strauss, Fuller Maitland, Reid Concert, Sir Charles, Herr Weingartner, Joachim Quartet, Don Giovanni, Fanny Davies, Herr Strauss, Prince of Venosa, Fourth Symphony, Roman Catholic, Edinburgh University, Historical Concerts, Joseph Joachim, Robert Schumann New!
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- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-glass (Books of Wonder) by Lewis Carroll on page 104, page 190, and page 535
- Contrapuntal Technique in the Sixteenth Century by R.O. Morris on page 306, page 388, and Index
- Donald Francis Tovey: A Biography Based on Letters by Mary Grierson in Front Matter (1), Front Matter (2), and Index
- Symphony No. 1: The Autograph Score by Johannes Brahms in Index (1), and Index (2)
- The Craft of Fiction (Jonathan Cape Paperback; 29) by P. Lubbock on page 473, and Index
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- 18th-Century Keyboard Music (Routledge Studies in Musical Genre) by Robert Marshall on page 424
- The Cambridge Companion to Verdi (Cambridge Companions to Music) by Scott L. Balthazar in Front Matter
- Musicology: The Key Concepts (Routledge Key Guides) by David Beard in Back Matter
- Concerto Conversations: With a 68-minute CD (Charles Eliot Norton Lectures) by Joseph Kerman in Back Matter
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