Life and Music of Charles Wood

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Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

AvJeremy Dibble

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Reassesses the life, music and enduring influence of Charles Wood, a central figure in British and Irish music and one of the foremost teachers of his generation.Charles Wood (1866-1926), Armagh chorister and student of Chares Villiers Stanford, was one of the most significant figures in British and Irish music of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and one of Britain's most important teachers. This study not only evaluates the substance of Wood's ecclesiastical music, in which, together with Stanford, his contribution was pre-eminent, but also his work in other genres, such as secular vocal music, arrangements of Irish folksong and the Irish cultural revival, orchestral music, opera and, in particular, the string quartet. Wood also found himself at the heart of a new antiquarian revival of early music, plainsong, psalmody and hymnody where his knowledge was uniquely encyclopaedic. This book offers a reassessment of his lasting legacy, the admiration he drew from figures such as Vaughan Williams, Dent and Tippett, and also discusses a considerable series of posthumous publications.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-05-12
Mått156 x 234 x undefined mm
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieIrish Musical Studies
Antal sidor418
FörlagBoydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN9781837654109

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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