British Musical Criticism and Intellectual Thought, 1850-1950

JEREMY DIBBLE is an Emeritus Professor of Music at Durham University where he taught for 30 years. With the Boydell Press, Dibble has published John Stainer: A Life in Music (2007), Hamilton Harty: Musical Polymath (2013), British Musical Criticism and Intellectual Thought, 1850-1950 (2018) (with Julian Horton), The Music of Frederick Delius (2021) and Charles Villers Stanford: Man and Musician (revised and expanded edition, 2024). HARRY WHITE is Professor of Music at University College Dublin, a Fellow of the Royal Irish Academy of Music and Series Editor (with Lorraine Byrne Bodley) of Irish Musical Studies. JEREMY DIBBLE is an Emeritus Professor of Music at Durham University where he taught for 30 years. With the Boydell Press, Dibble has published John Stainer: A Life in Music (2007), Hamilton Harty: Musical Polymath (2013), British Musical Criticism and Intellectual Thought, 1850-1950 (2018) (with Julian Horton), The Music of Frederick Delius (2021) and Charles Villers Stanford: Man and Musician (revised and expanded edition, 2024). KAREN ARRANDALE is a Life Member of Clare Hall, University of Cambridge, and former Senior Associate of King's College, Cambridge. PAUL WATT is Adjunct Professor of Musicology in The University of Adelaide. He is the author of Ernest Newman: A Critical Biography (The Boydell Press, 2017) and editor of The Symphonic Poem in Britain, 1850-1950 (with Michael Allis) (The Boydell Press, 2020). PHILIP ROSS BULLOCK is Professor of Russian and Music at the University of Oxford, and Fellow and Tutor in Russian at Wadham College, Oxford. Previously for Boydell,he has published a translation of the correspondencence between Rosa Newmarch and Jean Sibelius, and in 2016, his biography of Tchaikovsky was published in the Critical Lives series by Reaktion.

• Introduction: Trends in British Musical Thought, 1850-1950 - Jeremy Dibble and Julian HortonAvoiding 'Coarse Invective' and 'Unseemly Vehemence': English Music Criticism, 1850-1870 - Peter HortonSpencer, Sympathy and the Oxford School of Music Criticism - Bennett ZonFree Thought and the Musician: Ernest Walker, the 'English Hanslick' - Jeremy DibbleErnest Newman and the Promise of Method in Biography, Criticism and History - Paul Watt'Making Symphony Articulate': Bernard Shaw's Sense of Music History - Harry WhiteAnalysis and Value Judgment: Schumann, Bruckner and Tovey's Essays in Musical Analysis - Julian HortonThe Scholar as Critic: Edward J. Dent - Karen ArrandaleRussia and Eastern Europe - Philip Ross BullockAnti-Intellectualism and the Rhetoric of 'National Character' in Music: The Vulgarity of Over-Refinement - Sarah CollinsChosen Causes: Writings on Music by Bernard van Dieren, Peter Warlock and Cecil Gray - Séamas de Barra'Es klang so alt und war doch so neu': Vaughan Williams, Aesthetics and History - Aidan J. ThomsonConstant Lambert: A Critic for Today? A Commentary on Music Ho! - Christopher MarkThe Challenge to Goodwill: Herbert Howells, Alban Berg and 'The Modern Problem' - Jonathan ClinchHans Keller: The Making of an 'Anti-Critic' - Select Bibliography

[A] welcome addition to the growing literature on the writers who sought in one way or another to shape public opinion during an extraordinary period in the evolution of the role of music in British life, marked by radical transformations in musical culture both at home and abroad. . . . [A] major and timely contribution to the field of British music studies.