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Till I End My Song: English Music and Musicians 1440-1940 - A Perspective from Eton

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It is no coincidence, says Richard Osborne in this scholarly yet entertaining study, that the National Anthem, 'Rule Britannial', 'Land of Hope and Glory' and 'Jerusalem' all have Eton connections. Yet though Eton's influence on England's political, academic and sporting life has been much written about, its relationship with the arts - with music in particular - has been strangely neglected. This, despite the fact that, in the words of one observer, 'Eton College as originally constituted by the Royal Founder may be regarded as the noblest Music School in the kingdom'. The opening chapter looks afresh at the founding of Eton and the importance to Eton and English music of the College Church and the music performed there. Tales of survival during the Reformation and Commonwealth are followed by an exploration of the eighteenth century and the powerful influence of a band of Eton-educated Handelians. The book goes on to chronicle the debacles and reforms of the Victorian era, the renaissance of music-making in Eton amid the traumas of colonial wars and the Great War itself, and the emergence in the 1920s of a cult of the aesthete to which Eton had never been wholly averse. There are memorable portraits of the reprobate Thomas Arne, Joah Bates, conductor of the epic Handel Festival in 1784, Hubert Parry, musician, athlete and occasional vandal, the eccentric Lord Berners and the even more eccentric John Christie, founder of Glyndebourne, and Philip Heseltine with his passion for Delius and risque limericks. Non-Etonians such as Maria Hackett, doyenne of musical campaigners, Sir Edward Elgar, the young Donald Tovey, and Dame Clara Butt, also have their place in the story, as do definitive accounts of how 'Jerusalem' and the celebrated 'Eton Boating Song' came to be written.


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  • ISBN-13: 9780907435167
  • Publisher: The Cygnet Press
  • Publisher Imprint: The Cygnet Press
  • Height: 216 mm
  • Width: 137 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0907435165
  • Publisher Date: 04 Jun 2002
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Sub Title: English Music and Musicians 1440-1940 - A Perspective from Eton


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