Bernarr Rainbow on Music: Memoirs and Selected Writings
A memoir by the renowned historian of music education, Bernarr Rainbow, including a selection of his writings and a biographical introduction by Peter Dickinson.

Bernarr Rainbow's [1914-1998] Memoirs written in the last year or two of his life offers a fascinating read about the life of the man who became the leading historian of music education. The book answers questions about how his life and work developed and how he came to establish the Bernarr Rainbow Trust before he died in 1998. The collection will also bring together Rainbow's writings published in various magazines, some of very limited circulation. Thenotes by Peter Dickinson cover Rainbow's earlier life and career, from archival material including press cuttings and including areas he does not cover in his memoirs. There are introductions by Gordon Cox and Charles Plummeridge.

PETER DICKINSON, the composer and pianist, is emeritus professor, University of Keele and University of London. He has written or edited several books about twentieth-century music, including Copland Connotations [2002], The Music of Lennox Berkeley [2003], CageTalk [2006], and the more recent Lord Berners and Samuel Barber Remembered.
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Bernarr Rainbow on Music: Memoirs and Selected Writings
A memoir by the renowned historian of music education, Bernarr Rainbow, including a selection of his writings and a biographical introduction by Peter Dickinson.

Bernarr Rainbow's [1914-1998] Memoirs written in the last year or two of his life offers a fascinating read about the life of the man who became the leading historian of music education. The book answers questions about how his life and work developed and how he came to establish the Bernarr Rainbow Trust before he died in 1998. The collection will also bring together Rainbow's writings published in various magazines, some of very limited circulation. Thenotes by Peter Dickinson cover Rainbow's earlier life and career, from archival material including press cuttings and including areas he does not cover in his memoirs. There are introductions by Gordon Cox and Charles Plummeridge.

PETER DICKINSON, the composer and pianist, is emeritus professor, University of Keele and University of London. He has written or edited several books about twentieth-century music, including Copland Connotations [2002], The Music of Lennox Berkeley [2003], CageTalk [2006], and the more recent Lord Berners and Samuel Barber Remembered.
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Bernarr Rainbow on Music: Memoirs and Selected Writings

Bernarr Rainbow on Music: Memoirs and Selected Writings

by Peter Dickinson (Editor)
Bernarr Rainbow on Music: Memoirs and Selected Writings

Bernarr Rainbow on Music: Memoirs and Selected Writings

by Peter Dickinson (Editor)

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A memoir by the renowned historian of music education, Bernarr Rainbow, including a selection of his writings and a biographical introduction by Peter Dickinson.

Bernarr Rainbow's [1914-1998] Memoirs written in the last year or two of his life offers a fascinating read about the life of the man who became the leading historian of music education. The book answers questions about how his life and work developed and how he came to establish the Bernarr Rainbow Trust before he died in 1998. The collection will also bring together Rainbow's writings published in various magazines, some of very limited circulation. Thenotes by Peter Dickinson cover Rainbow's earlier life and career, from archival material including press cuttings and including areas he does not cover in his memoirs. There are introductions by Gordon Cox and Charles Plummeridge.

PETER DICKINSON, the composer and pianist, is emeritus professor, University of Keele and University of London. He has written or edited several books about twentieth-century music, including Copland Connotations [2002], The Music of Lennox Berkeley [2003], CageTalk [2006], and the more recent Lord Berners and Samuel Barber Remembered.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781843835929
Publisher: BOYDELL & BREWER INC
Publication date: 10/21/2010
Series: Classic Texts in Music Education , #27
Pages: 426
Product dimensions: 6.20(w) x 9.20(h) x 1.50(d)

Table of Contents

Introductions by Gordon Cox and Charles Plummeridge
Part I: A Salute to Life
Part II: John Curwen A Short Critical Biography
That Great Dust-Heap called 'History' [1992]
Historical Research [1992]
Count Leo Tolstory: Music Teacher [1980]
The Land with Music: Reality and Myth in Music Education [1988]
The French Revolution and Music Teaching: A Bicentennial Review [1989]
An Excellency in Musick [1957]
The Glass Harmonicon Rediscovered [1974]
The Miseries of Musick Masters [1986]
The Rise of Popular Music Education in Nineteenth-Century England [1986]
Plato and Music Today [1981]
Onward from Butler: School Music [1985] with a postscript by Walter Heise
Freedom and its Price [1989]
Some New Music Teaching Devices from France [1961]
Curwen, Kodaly and the Future [1979]
An Ear for Music [1980]
The New Curwen Method: A Partnership of Ear, Eye and Voice [1988]
Sol-Fa as an Ethnic Link [1982]
The Kodaly Concept and its Pedigree [1990]
Cheironomy [1979]
Victorian Street Music [1998]
The English Promenade Concert [1995-6]
Thomas Helmore and the Anglican Plainsong Revival [1959]
Notes from Two French Organ Lofts [1961]
William Dyce [1964]
Walmisley's Psychedelic Magnificat [1980]
The Hymn-Singing American [1982]
Charity Children: Singing for their Supper [1984]
John Jebb [1805-86] and the Choral Service [1986]
In Quires and Places Where They Sing: Some Historical Aspects of Anglican Church Music [1995]
Review: R.M. Wilson, Anglican Chant and Chanting in England, Scotland and America, 1660-1820 [1998]
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