George Grove, Music and Victorian Culture
Michael Musgrave
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Description for George Grove, Music and Victorian Culture
Hardback. George Grove, founder of the "Dictionary of Music and Musicians", was also an engineer, biblical scholar, administrator, educationalist and writer. This study surveys his life and assesses the qualities that led him to play a major role in Victorian cultural life. Num Pages: 366 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; 3JH; AVA; AVH; BGF; BGH; HBJD1; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 544.
Though George Grove (1820-1900) was never a professional musician, his is one of the most familiar names in music: as founder of the great Dictionary of Music and Musicians that bears his name and first director of the Royal College of Music. This book surveys his varied activities as engineer, biblical scholar, administrator, educationalist and writer on music, and assesses the qualities that led him to play a major role in the cultural life of London in the period 1850-1900.
Though George Grove (1820-1900) was never a professional musician, his is one of the most familiar names in music: as founder of the great Dictionary of Music and Musicians that bears his name and first director of the Royal College of Music. This book surveys his varied activities as engineer, biblical scholar, administrator, educationalist and writer on music, and assesses the qualities that led him to play a major role in the cultural life of London in the period 1850-1900.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
366
Condition
New
Number of Pages
366
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780333948040
SKU
V9780333948040
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About Michael Musgrave
CHRISTINA BASHFORD is a lecturer in the Music Department at Oxford Brookes University, UK CELIA CLARKE is now retired and works on the catalogue of the Royal College of Music Library's holdings of Sir George Grove's letters PETER HORTON is Reference Librarian and Research Coordinator at the Royal College of Music LEANNE LANGLEY is on the research staff of Goldsmiths' ... Read more
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