Music in twentieth-century Oxford : new directions /

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Print version record.Includes bibliographical references and index.Foreword / Eric Clarke -- Setting the scene / Rovin Darwall-Smith and Susan Wollenberg -- Part I. Town and gown ; Music in the town / Robin Darwall-Smith and Susan Wollenberg ;The Oxford Bach Choir, 1896-1997 / Robin Darwall-Smith ; Music in the city churches / Peter Ward Jones -- Part II. Collegiate music-making. The choral foundations / Timothy Day ; Music in the Oxford women's colleges, 1879-1939 / Susan Wollenberg and Melanie von Goldbeck ; The Balliol concerts / Susan Wollenberg ; The University College Musical Society, 1930-2000 / Robin Darwall-Smith -- Part III. University Institutions. The Oxford University Opera Club / Susan Wollenberg, with an afterword by Michael Burden ; The development of the faculty of music / Susan Wollenberg ; Oxford composers / John Caldwell ; 'For the purpose of encouraging the practice and knowledge of chamber music' : the Oxford & Cambridge Musical Club, 1899-1940 / Ian Maxwell."The first book length study of musical education and culture in twentieth century Oxford. Music has always played a central role in the life of Oxford, in both the city and university, through the great collegiate choral foundations, the many amateur choirs and instrumentalists, and the professional musicians regularly drawn to perform there. Oxford, with its collegiate system and centuries-long tradition of musical activity, presents a distinctive and multi-layered picture of the role of music in urban culture and university life"--