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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
August 2019
Print publication year:
2019
Online ISBN:
9781316681336
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316681336
Subjects:
Twentieth-Century and Contemporary Music, Music, Education, Education, History, Theory, Music Criticism, Music Performance
Series:
Music since 1900
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Book description

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.

Reviews

‘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 Source: NABMSA Reviews

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