Edward J Dent: Selected Essays

In editing this collection, Hugh Taylor has brought together Dent's learned but always readable criticism.

Edward J. Dent (Author), Hugh Taylor (Edited by)

9780521106009, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 2 April 2009

312 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.4 cm, 0.37 kg

During his long career, Edward Dent wrote on a variety of musical subjects, ranging from substantial articles in the most learned journals to less weighty pieces in Radio Times. This volume aims to reflect that variety. Some of the articles are now of primarily historical interest, others offer insights of a fundamental kind; all are informed by Dent's witty and distinctive prose style. In editing this collection, Hugh Taylor has drawn on writings from 1903 to 1951 and included two pieces originally written in Italian and published here in English for the first time. As well as providing footnotes, which amplify certain of Dent's statements and draw attention to subsequent research, Mr Taylor has listed sources for Dent's many textual references and quotations. Brought together in this way Dent's learned but always readable criticism will appeal to the reader with a general interest in music as well as to the music student and specialist.

Introduction
1. The translation of operas
2. (Music for the Cambridge Greek plays)
3. Leonardo Leo
4. Italian chamber cantatas
5. Cecil Armstrong Gibbs
6. (The problems of modern music)
7. On the composition of English songs
8. Busoni's Doctor Faust
9. The style of Schubert
10. (Melody and harmony)
11. Bellini in England
12. Binary and ternary form
13. The historical approach to music
14. La rappresentazione di anima e di corpo
15. The teaching of strict counterpoint
16. The Victorians and opera
17. Corno di Bassetto
18. A pastoral opera by Alessandro Scarlatti
19. Verdi in English
20. Looking backward
Index.

Subject Areas: Music [AV]