The Royal College of Music and its Contexts
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The Royal College of Music and its Contexts by David C H Wright
Located between the great Victorian museums of South Kensington and the Royal Albert Hall, the Royal College of Music, founded in 1883, has been a central influence on British musical life ever since. This wide-ranging account places the College within its musical and educational environments. It argues that the RCM's significance lies not only in its famous performers and composers, but also the generations of its more anonymous former students who have done so much to improve the musical life of the localities in which they have worked as teachers and animateurs. As a cultural history, this account also captures how significantly society's consumption of music - from new technologies to the altered perspectives of historical and world musics - has changed since the College was founded, and how very different our points of musical reference now are. This study traces the effects of such developments on the College's work.
'This definitive study of the Royal College of Music is also an original and illuminating contribution to the social history of modern Britain' Tim Blanning, Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge
'This history fosters deep understanding of conservatoire education, applicable by extension to the whole sector of higher education. This is a richly rewarding volume …' Jane Angell, NABMSA Reviews
'This history fosters deep understanding of conservatoire education, applicable by extension to the whole sector of higher education. This is a richly rewarding volume …' Jane Angell, NABMSA Reviews
David C. H. Wright became Reader in the Social History of Music at the Royal College of Music, London after a professional life spent in both music college and university environments. His writings range from the culture and economics of Victorian music publishing to the Prom seasons of William Glock and Robert Ponsonby in The Proms: A New History (2007). In 2013, he published a social and cultural history of the Associated Boards of the Royal Schools of Music.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781107163386 |
| ISBN 10 | 1107163382 |
| Title | The Royal College of Music and its Contexts |
| Author | David C H Wright |
| Series | Music Since 1900 |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year published | 2019-09-05 |
| Number of pages | 386 |
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