Life and Music of Charles Wood

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).

• List of Music ExamplesList of Analytical TablesList of IllustrationsPreface and AcknowledgementsList of Sigla and Abbreviations 1 Armagh Chorister and London Student (1866-1887)2 From RCM Student to Cambridge Organist: Songs, Madrigals and Service Music (1888-1892)3 The Swinburne Ode, A Cambridge Fellowship and A Passion for Antiquarianism (1893-1896)4 Irish Music, A Cambridge Lectureship, Marriage and the 'Sarsfield' Variations (1897-1900)5 Australia, Choral Success and An Operatic Setback (1901-1907)6 The Winds of Change and A Rediscovery of the Quartet (1908-1913)7 'Expectans expectavi': The War and the Last Quartets (1914-1918)8 The Final Years: A Flowering of Church Music (1919-1926)9 Epilogue: The Posthumous Composer Appendix: List of WorksBibliographyIndex of WorksGeneral Index