The Englishman makes music / Reginald Nettel.
| Author/creator | Nettel, Reginald |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | London : Dennis Dobson, [1952] |
| Description | 208 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Allegorical information -- Reason and unreason -- Catches, glees, and madrigals -- Church, king, and the industrialists -- Laborum dulce lenimen -- Trial and error in education -- The turn of the tide -- How the theory worked -- Yorkshire tells the world -- The pastoral revival -- Confusion and diffusion. |
| Abstract | "As the title of this book suggests, its hero is the singing, fiddling, trumpet-playing, flute-blowing, drum-banging Englishman so maligned since the Industrial Revolution by the music snobs of other countries. Here they are, all of them, from the workers to the great industrialists, from the Prince Consort to the Chartists, loving music as passionately as they loved their country, earnestly--perhaps too earnestly--trying to improve both. From the height of the mid-twentieth-century we can look down on the past and see where the mistakes were made, and how mediocre music and artificial standards of performance were accepted providing they were used as material for moral or material 'improvement'. Mr Nettel has unearthed many new facts about [t]his period, and with a theme after his own heart, infects us with his own enthusiasm for our past endeavours in the field of music. It is an interesting story he has to tell, with something of the Cinderella theme running through it. Commerce and industry being the two ugly sisters. This is not only a book for the specialist reader, but will interest and amuse everybody who listens to music, whether at the Grande Hotel, Free Trade Hall, or Prom."--Dust jacket. |
| Bibliography note | Bibliography: pages 207-208. |
| LCCN | 53006798 |
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