Music in Twentieth-Century Oxford: New Directions

ROBIN DARWALL-SMITH is Archivist of University and Jesus Colleges, Oxford. He has also been Archivist of Magdalen College. SUSAN WOLLENBERG is Emeritus Professor of Music, University of Oxford, as well as Emeritus Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall. ROBIN DARWALL-SMITH is Archivist of University and Jesus Colleges, Oxford. He has also been Archivist of Magdalen College. SUSAN WOLLENBERG is Emeritus Professor of Music, University of Oxford, as well as Emeritus Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall. PETER WARD JONES is the retired Music Librarian of the Bodleian Library, Oxford, a former Fellow of St Cross College and ex-organ scholar of Balliol College. He has a lifelong experience as organist/choirmaster and conductor of choral societies. Publications include The Mendelssohns on Honeymoon: The 1837 Diary of Felix and Cécile Mendelssohn Bartholdy; Catalogue of the Mendelssohn Papers in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, vol. 3, and numerous contributions to encyclopaedias, journals, Festschriften and other works of joint authorship, including a chapter in Music in Twentieth-Century Oxford (Boydell, 2023). IAN MAXWELL is an Honorary Research Fellow, Music Department, University of Sheffield.

• Foreword - Eric Clarke1. Setting the Scene - Robin Darwall-Smith and Susan Wollenberg Part I - Town and Gown2. Music in the Town - Robin Darwall-Smith and Susan Wollenberg3. The Oxford Bach Choir, 1896-1997 - Robin Darwall-Smith4. Music in the City Churches - Peter Ward JonesPart II - Collegiate Music-Making5. The Choral Foundations - Timothy Day6. Music in the Oxford Women's Colleges, 1879-1939 -Susan Wollenberg and Melanie von Goldbeck7.The Balliol Concerts - Susan Wollenberg8. The University College Musical Society, 1930-2000 - Robin Darwall-SmithPart III - University Institutions9. The Oxford University Opera Club - Susan Wollenberg with an afterword by Michael Burden10. The Development of the Faculty of Music - Susan Wollenberg11. Oxford Composers - John Caldwell12. 'For the purpose of encouraging the practice and knowledge of chamber music': The Oxford & Cambridge Musical Club, 1899-1940 - Ian MaxwellIndex

The volume is a worthy successor to Susan Wollenberg's earlier monograph on Oxford (Music at Oxford in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, 2001), and also a fitting response to the lament that 'music received only an occasional passing mention' in The History of the University of Oxford, vol. 8, The Twentieth Century (1994).