Index

Abbott, Jacob, 30

Adler, Guido, 3

Alboni, Marietta, 137

Anglicanism. See Church of England

anthems, 93, 98-100

antiquarianism, 3, 83, 96, 99, 148, 151-52

arias, 70, 98, 100

aristocracy, 9-10, 43, 51, 121, 145, 156

Arnold, Thomas, 20

art music, 5n, 7

art songs, 6, 14-15, 85-88, 102-18

Aspull, George, 9

Attwood, Thomas, 97

Auber, Daniel-François-Esprit, 7n, 146

audiences, 11

Austen, Jane: Emma, 42, 46; Pride and Prejudice, 43-45, 51

Bach, Johann Sebastian, 7, 9, 36, 74-75, 89, 97

Balfe, Michael William, 129, 137, 145-47, 151; Falstaff, 9; The Bohemian Girl, 13, 15, 121n, 146, 161; The Maid of Artois, 146; The Siege of Rochelle, 146

Balfour, Arthur, 1

ballads, 11, 13, 14, 15, 48, 85, 145, 155

ballet, 145

Barezzi, Antonio, 120, 127-28, 133-34, 139, 140; see also Muzio, Emanuele

Barnett, John, 145, 146

Barrett, W. E., 37, 38

Bartók, Bela, 144

“The Battle of Prague.” See Kocžwara, Franz

Beale, Dorothea, 35, 36

Beethoven, Ludwig van, 4, 7, 9, 47, 97, 148

Bell, Andrew, 17, 18

Bellini, Vincenzo, 73, 124, 126, 136n; I Puritani, 70-71

Benedict, Julius, 145, 156

Bennett, William Sterndale, 12

Berlioz, Hector, 4, 124

Berneval, Jue de, 31

Borodin, Alexander, 6, 143

Bortnyansky, Dmitry, 144

Bosto, Angiolina, 126

Boucicault, Dion, 156

Boyce, William, 96

Broadwood, John, 45, 47

Brontë, Charlotte, 35-36, 64; Jane Eyre, 53-54

Brooke, Stopford A., 104

Browning, Robert, 103

Brunei, Isambard Kindgom, 1

Bryce, R. J., 31

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward, 60

Bunn, Alfred, 15, 128, 134, 161

Burns, Robert, 6

Buss, Frances, 35

Butler Education Act of 1944, 41

Byron, George Gordon, 135

cantatas, 155

cathedral music, 12, 14, 16, 19, 91n, 92, 93-94, 95

Cawood, Martin, 92

cello, 51

chamber music, 10-11, 14

Chappell, William, 147-48

Cheltenham Ladies’ College, 35, 36

Cherubini, Luigi, 7n, 9, 36

Chopin, Frederic, 6

choral services, 1, 33, 91-101

choral works, 2, 74-75, 82, 84, 89-101 passim; see also church music, choral services, oratorio

Chorley, Henry Fothergill, 22, 119-20, 122-42; Music and Manners in France and Germany, 119; Thirty Years’ Musical Recollections, 126, 129, 139

church music, 1, 12-13, 18-19, 75-76, 82-83, 89-101

Church of England, 10, 12-13, 16, 19, 20, 33, 89-101

clavichord, 44

Clough, Anne, 36

Coleridge, S. T., 57, 67

colleges of music, 2, 38, 56, 102, 147

Collins, Wilkie, 60

Committee of Council on Education, 20, 23-26 passim

composers, Victorian, 5, 9, 11-15, 89-101, 102-103, 147-57

conductors, 122, 129

Congregationalism, 29-30

Cook, Edward Tyas, 68

Costa, Michael, 122, 129, 138, 139

Crimean War, 103, 107, 116

critics, music, 11-12, 48, 119, 122-24, 130-31, 139-40

Crotch, William, 9, 97, 148

Curwen, John, 29-32; “Look and Say” method, 30; “Lessons on Singing,” 30-31; Tonic Sol-fa: 31-32, 39

dance music, 6, 11, 83

David, Ferdinand, 34

David, Paul, 34

deconstruction, 116

Dent, Edward, 3

Dickens, Charles, 1, 48, 50-51, 64, 122n; Household Words, 26; Bleak House, 51, 54-56; David Copperfield, 51, 54-57; The Mystery of Edwin Drood, 57, 60

Dickens, Fanny, 56

Disraeli, Benjamin, 37

Dissenters, 10, 19, 20, 29-30

Donizetti, Gaetano, 124, 126, 136n, 141, 146

drama, 144-45, 147-48

DuMaurier, George, 60, 61 illus.

Dupuis, Alexandre, 21

Dvořák, Antonin, 143

Ecclesiastical Commissioners, 93-94

Edgcumbe, Richard, 123

Edgeworth, Maria, 51-52, 62; Practical Education, 51-52

editions of music, 1, 2n; scholarly, 2, 2-3n, 13n

Education Bill of 1839, 20

Edwards, Sutherland, 122

Elgar, Edward, 5, 13, 14, 102, 103

Eliot, George, 1, 47, 60, 62-67; Middlemarch, 42, 63; Adam Bede, 47; The Mill on the Floss, 63; Felix Holt, 63; Daniel Deronda, 64-67

evangelicalism, 10, 76, 82

Falkner, Keith, 103

Farmer, John, 34-35, 36-37

Farrant, Richard, 96

Feuerbach, Ludwig, 64

Fielding, Henry, 44

folk music, 5, 6, 7, 143-57 passim

folksong. See folk music

Forster Education Act of 1870, 32

France, music in, 6, 21-25, 27, 70-71

Fraschini, Gaetano, 135

functional music, 5

Galin, Pierre, 38-39

Gauntlett, H. J., 94

Gay, John, 156; The Beggar’s Opera, 152, 154

gentlemen and music, 10, 37, 50-51, 60

German music: in England, 6-7, 9, 10-11, 15, 69, 70, 74, 97, 123, 146; in Germany, 12, 24-25, 39-40, 47; German music teachers, 34, 64-66; instrumental, 144, 145

Gilbert, William Schwenk, 13, 157. See also Sullivan, Arthur Seymour

girls’ education, 35-37, 50-54

Girls’ Public Day School Trust (GPDST), 36, 40-41

Girton College, 36

Gissing, George, 43, 67

Gladstone, William, 1, 12, 103, 107

Glinka, Mikhail, 144, 156

Glover, Sarah, 26, 29, 31; Scheme for Rendering Psalmody Congregational, 18, 37; see also sol-fa

Gluck, Christoph, 7n

Goldschmidt, Otto, 74

Goss, John, 12

GPDST. See Girls’ Public Day School Trust

Grant, Horace, 30

Greaves, J. P., 18

Greene, Maurice, 96

Grieg, Edvard, 143

Grisi, Giulia, 70, 122, 130, 131-32, 137, 138

Hallé, Charles, 122-23

Handel, Georg Frideric, 6, 7, 9, 97, 98n, 145, 156

Hardy, Thomas, 1, 48

harp, 10, 36, 56

harpsichord, 44

Harrow, 34-35

Haweis, Hugh Reginald, 81

Haydn, Joseph, 7, 9, 36, 47, 148

Heine, Heinrich, 130-31

Hemans, Felicia, 14, 160

Hickson, W. E., 24-26; The Singing Master, 18-19, 24, 31

High Church views, 33, 91-95; see also Oxford Movement

Hill, James, 92

historical music, 4

historiography of music, 3, 4, 147-48

Hogarth, George, 48, 123

Hogwood, Christopher, 4

Holst, Gustav, 147, 157

Hook, Walter Farquhar, 91-92, 98, 100

Housman, A. E., 103

Hullah, John, 21-24, 25-32, 39-40, 45, 75n; Wilhem’s Method of Teaching Singing adapted to English Use, 24; Musical Instruction in Elementary Schools on the Continent, 39-40

instrumental music, 6, 10-11, 38, 50, 84-85

Irish songs, 7, 15, 48, 152, 155, 156

Italian music, 6, 69, 70, 73, 146; see also opera

James, Henry, 48

Jebb, John, 94-95, 100; Three Lectures on the Choral Service of the Church of England, 92, 98

Kay, James, 20, 23, 24, 26

Kingsley, Charles, 103

Kitchener, William, 52

Kocžwara, Franz: “The Battle of Prague,” 15, 48, 49 illus., 50, 163

Kretschmer, Hermann, 40

Lablache, Luigi, 70, 122, 130, 135n, 140

Lancaster, Joseph, 17, 18

“Land ohne Musik, Das,” 5

Langdale, Mary Agnes, 40

Laporte, Pierre, 121, 130

Lear, Edward, 1

Lehmann, Frederick, 62-63

Lehmann, Liza, 15, 161

Lewes, Charles, 62

Lewes, George Henry, 47, 63

Lind, Jenny, 67, 73, 76, 128, 134-35, 138, 139n, 141

Liszt, Franz, 57, 58 illus., 64, 65n, 143, 144

literature, music in, 1, 42-67

Lloyd, Marie, 15

Locke, John, 10, 50-51

Loder, Edward James, 14, 15, 145, 147, 160

Lucca, Francesco, 127, 132-33, 135

Lumley, Benjamin, 121-22, 126-36, 139-40, 141-42

MacCunn, Hamish, 143, 157

Macfarren, George, 147, 152

Macfarren, George Alexander, 6, 145, 147-157; King Charles II, 149; Robin Hood, 149-51, 155; The Soldier’s Legacy, 151-55 Jessy Lea, 151

Mackenzie, Alexander, 143

Macpherson, Stewart, 40-41

Maffei, Andrea, 120

Maffei, Clarina, 139, 140n

Maggione, S. Manfredo, 10

Mainzer, Joseph, 21, 29, 30, 31; Singing for the Million, 27, 28

Malibran, Maria Felicia, 122

Mann, R. J., 104

Mario, Giuseppe, 122, 138

Marlborough, 32

marriage market, 36, 51-52

Marshall, William, 71

Mason, Lowell, 31

Mayo, Charles, 18

Mayo, Elizabeth, 30

Mendelssohn, Felix, 7, 9, 12, 14, 57, 82, 123, 134, 135; “Fantasia on a Favorite Irish Melody,” 16, 163; “Fantasia on an Ancient Irish Air,” 48

Mercadante, Saverio, 124-25, 136n

Meredith, George, 60

Meyerbeer, Giacomo, 135-36, 147; Feldlager von Schlesien, 128, 134

Middle Ages, 3, 83

middle classes, 5, 10-11, 18, 43-44, 50-51, 76, 144, 145; education of, 32

Monk, E. G., 32

Moore, Thomas, 6; Irish Melodies, 16, 156

morality and music, 23, 26, 52, 65, 79-83; see also Ruskin, John

Moscheles, Ignaz, 56

motifs, motives, 111, 151-55

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 7, 9, 47, 53, 71, 74, 85, 97, 123, 136n, 156; Don Giovanni, 10n, 71

Munrow, David, 4

musical appreciation, 40-41

Musical Association. See Royal Music Association

music education, 2, 5, 17-41, 84; teachers, 1-2; see also schools

music hall, 15

musicians: professional, 1-2, 5, 11, 44-45, 57-60; Ruskin on, 72; training of, 100n

musicology, 2-3, 4

Music Teachers’ Association, 41

music theory, 3

Mussorsky, Modest, 6, 143, 156; Boris Godunov, 6, 144

Muzio, Emanuele, 120, 127-28, 133-34, 138-39, 140, 141; see also Barezzi, Antonio

Naegeli, H. G., 31

nationalism, musical, 6-7, 143-47, 156-57

Nicolson, Harold, 108-116

North London School for Girls, 35

Novello & Co., 7-8

O’Leary, Arthur, 9n

opera, 119-42; English, 13, 89, 121n, 144-57; Italian, 6, 11, 13, 70-71, 119-41, 144, 145, 156; Irish, 156

operetta, 6

oratorio, 11-14 passim, 40, 82, 137-38, 148, 155

orchestral music, 14

organists, 12-13, 32-34, 38, 89-90

organ music, 89-90

Ouseley, Frederick, 9, 12

Owen, Robert, 18

Oxenford, John, 149, 151, 156

Oxford Movement, 33, 93

Pacini, Giovanni, 124

Paderewski, Ignacy, 57, 59 illus.

Paganini, Niccolò, 57

Palestrina, Giovanni, 9

pantomime, 84, 145

Paris, Aimé, 31

Parry, Charles, 103

Pasta, Giuditta, 122

Patti, Adelina, 71

Pedrell, Felipe, 143

Peel, Mrs. C. S., 50

Pergolesi, Giovanni, 9

Persiani, Fanny, 122, 130

Pestalozzi, Johann Heinrich, 20, 21, 30; Pestalozzian method, 18, 25; Letters on Early Education Addressed to J. P. Greaves, 18; see also Greaves, J. P.

Pfeiffer, M. T., 31

piano, 1, 5, 10, 11, 13, 14, 15, 36, 40, 41, 42-67, 71, 90; making, 44, 45; music, 10, 16, 36, 44, 47-50, 70

pianola, 41

Planché, J. R., 148

Plato, 74, 79, 83, 84

Plunket Greene, Harry, 103

Ponsonby, John William, 20

popular music, 5, 7, 12, 15, 48-49, 84-85, 151-55

Prince Albert, 1, 12, 50n

Proctor, Adelaide, 14

prodigies, 9

public schools, 32-37

publishing, music, 1, 5

Purcell, Henry, 7n, 16, 96, 97, 98n; Dido and Aeneas, 148

puritanism, 10, 69

Radley, 32

Renaissance music, 3

Ricordi, Giovanni, 127

Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolay A., 143

romanticism, 3, 12, 57, 96, 143-57

Ronconi, Giorgio, 138

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 103

Rossini, Gioacchino, 7n, 10n, 71, 85, 119, 123, 135n, 137, 146

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 18, 27

Royal Academy of Music, 12, 40-41, 56, 147

Royal Music Association, 2

Rubini, Giovanni, 70, 122, 130-31

Rubinstein, Anton, 64, 65n

Rugby, 32-33

Ruskin, John, 1, 16, 68-88, 163-65; Modern Painters, 68, 77, 78; Praeterita, 69-71, 88; Essay on the Relative Dignity of the Studies of Painting and Music . . ., 71-74; Relation of National Ethics to National Arts, 73, 79; Preface to Rock Honeycomb, 74, 84-85, 87-88; Elements of Drawing, 77; Seven Lamps of Architecture, 77, 78; Addresses on Decorative Colours, 77; Two Paths, 77; Stones of Venice, 77, 78; Political Economy of Art (A Joy Forever), 78; Sesame and Lilies, 78; Munera Pulveris, 78-79; Queen of the Air, 79, 81; Athena Chalinitis, 79-81; Fors Clavigera, 82-83; Pleasures of England, 83-84; Fiction, Fair and Foul, 84; Laws of Fésole, 84; Elements of English Prosody, 85-86

Russell, John, 20

Russia, music in, 143, 144, 145

Ryan, Desmond, 149

Schiller, Friedrich, 120, 135n, 140

schools, 1, 17-41, 75; schoolteachers, 20-21, 34, 38; see also music education, teachers

Schubert, Franz, 47, 48

Schumann, Robert, 6, 12, 15

Scott, Walter, 83, 88

Scottish songs, 7, 70, 155

Shaw, G. B., 1, 137n

Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 15, 69, 161

Sidney, Philip: Rock Honeycomb. See Ruskin, John

sightsinging methods, 22, 26-29

singing: domestic, 10, 11, 48, 50, 60; congregational, 18-19, 32, 37; choral, 1, 12, 33-37, 82, 91-96; massed, 19-32; professional, 70-71, 76, 103, 122, 127-28, 130-31, 133-34

Smetana, Bedřich, 143, 156

Smith, Henry, 92

Smyth, Ethel, 15

social criticism, 52, 64-66, 79-81, 108-109

sol-fa, 25, 26, 28-29, 31, 38, 39. See also Curwen, John

Somervell, Arthur: Cycle of Songs from Maud, 102-18, 166-73; Love in Springtime, 103; Shropshire Lad, 103; James Lee’s Wife, 103; A Broken Arc, 103

song cycles, 102-18 passim

songs, 13, 14; see also art songs; folk music; popular music; singing; song cycles

Soyer, Alexis, 52

Spark, William, 90

Spencer, Herbert, 1

Spohr, Louis, 7, 9, 97

Spontini, Gasparo, 9

Spring-Rice, Thomas, 20

Stainer, John, 5, 12

Stanford, Charles Villiers, 12, 14-15, 143, 157, 160-61

Stevenson, Robert Louis, 15, 160-61

Stow, David, 18, 30

Sullivan, Arthur Seymour, 5, 157-58; Cox and Box, 13, 151; Ivanhoe, 13

Tabrar, Joseph, 15, 162

Tamburini, Antonio, 70, 122, 130

Taylor, Edward, 28, 94-95, 100; with James Turle, The Singing Book, 28-29

teachers: piano, 34, 64-66; singing, 26-32; see also music education; schools

Tennyson, Alfred, 1, 16; Maud, 103-18; In Memoriam, 103

Tennyson, Hallam, 109

Thackeray, W M., 122n; Vanity Fair, 42, 45, 53-54

Thomson, John, 90-145

Thring, Edward, 20, 33-34

Tonic Sol-fa. See Curwen, John; see also solfa

Trollope, Anthony, 51

Turle, James. See Taylor, Edward

Turner, John, 26, 29; Manual of Instruction in Vocal Music, 18, 27

Twain, Mark: Huckleberry Finn, 48-50

universities, 2, 38, 39, 89-90

Uppingham, 33-34

utilitarianism, 18-19

Vaughan Williams, Ralph, 7, 147, 156, 157

Verdi, Giuseppe, 4, 9, 119-42; Macbeth, 120; I Masnadieri, 120, 121, 127n, 135, 137, 139, 140-41, 142n; Nabucco, 120, 126-27, 129, 131, 137, 141; Ernani, 125-26, 137, 138, 140; Copialettere, 127; Attila, 127n, 132, 134; II Corsaro, 127n, 135; King Lear 130-31, 135; I Lombardi, 131, 137; Alzira, 132, 134; I Due Foscari, 134, 137, 138-39

violin, 40, 51

visual arts and music, 71-72, 77, 101

Wade, Joseph Augustine, 148

Wagner, Richard, 4, 6, 7n, 9, 124, 147, 148

Waite, J. J., 27, 31

Wakefield, Augusta Mary, 68

Wallace, William Vincent, 13, 145, 147, 151

Walmisley, Thomas Attwood, 12, 89, 90, 97

Weber, Carl Maria von, 6, 7, 9, 146, 156; Oberon, 121, 146; Freischütz, 146, 149

Wesley, Samuel, 89, 98n, 152

Wesley, Samuel Sebastian, 5, 12, 16, 89-101, 165-66; A Few Words on Cathedral Music . . ., 90, 94, 100; lectures on choral music, 91, 95; A Selection of Psalm Tunes, 93, 97-98, 99; Service in E, 96, 97, 99

West, George Frederick, 85, 87-88

White, Maude Valérie, 15

Wilderspin, Samuel, 18

Wilhem, Guillaume, 21-22, 24, 26

Withers, Charlotte, 71, 73, 76n

women musicians, 10, 14-15, 35-36, 42-67, 70; see also girls’ education

words and music, 74-75, 84-88, 97-98, 99, 102-16

working classes, 19-32

Wyse, Thomas, 17, 19, 20