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Bernarr Rainbow on music : memoirs and selected writings / Bernarr Rainbow ; with introductions by Gordon Cox & Charles Plummeridge ; general editor of the series Peter Dickinson

Author
Rainbow, Bernarr
Published
Woodbridge, U.K. ; Rochester, N.Y. : Boydell Press, 2010.
Physical Description
xiii, 398 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits, plates, music ; 24 cm.
Additional Creators
Dickinson, Peter, 1927-, Cox, Gordon, and Plummeridge, Charles, 1939-

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Contents
Introduction to 'A salute to life' -- A salute to life [1997] -- John Curwen: a short critical biography [1980] -- Introduction to selected writings -- That great dust-heap called 'history' [1992] -- Historical research [1992] -- Count Leo Tolstoy: music teacher [1980] -- The land with music: reality and myth in music education [1988] -- The French Revolution and music teaching: a bicentennial review [1989] -- An excellency in music [1957] -- The glass harmonicum rediscovered [1974] -- The miseries of music masters [1986] -- The rise of popular music education in nineteenth-century england [1986] -- Plato and music today [1981] -- Onward from Butler: school music, 1945-1985 [1985] -- Freedom and its price [1989] -- Some new music teaching devices from France [1961] -- Curwen, Kodály and the future [1979] -- An ear for music [1980] -- The new Curwen method: a partnership of ear, eye and voice [1988] -- Sol-Fa as an ethnic link [1982] -- The Kodály concept and its pedigree [1990] -- Cheironomy [1979] -- Victorian street music [1998] -- The English promenade concert [1995-6] -- Thomas Helmore and the Anglican plainsong revival [1959] -- Notes from two French organ lofts [1961] -- William Dyce [1964] -- Walmisley's psychedelic magnificat -- The hymn-singing American [1982] -- Charity children: singing for their supper [1984] -- John Jebb (1805-86) and the choral service [1986] -- In choirs and places where they sing: some historical aspects of Anglican church music [1995] -- Rich source material [book review] [1998].
Summary
Bernarr Rainbow on Music: Memoirs and Selected Writings is the third major volume produced under the aegis of the Bernarr Rainbow Trust in the series edited by Peter Dickinson. --
In the last year of his life, Rainbow was urged to write an account of his achievements and experiences. This personal memoir, introduced by Charles Plummeridge, is a lively and fascinating tour through the life of a pioneer in the study of music education. --
Rainbow grew up in suburban London, holding various posts as a church organist while still a schoolboy. He attended Trinity College of Music part-time while working in the Map Branch of HM Land Registry and spent four years in the army serving in North Africa and Italy. He entered the musical profession as Organist and Choirmaster at All Saints Parish Church, High Wycombe, and went on to take posts as Director of Music at the College of St Mark and St John, Chelsea, and Kingston Polytechnic. --
He was made an Honorary Fellow of Trinity College of Music in 1995 and in the following year established the annual Bernarr Rainbow Awards for school teachers. These are now administered by the Institute of Education, University of London, through the Bernarr Rainbow Trust, a registered charity that also supports other initiatives in music education such as the Bernarr Rainbow Lectures. --
Rainbow's memoir is followed by his life of the tonic sol-fa propagandist John Curwen, whom Rainbow honoured by founding the Curwen Institute in 1972. --
Rainbow's interests extended far beyond music education into church music and music in society, and this is shown in a selection of his articles, introduced by Gordon Cox. Invariably readable, frequently amusing, these writings enhance the profile of an extraordinary man. --Book Jacket.
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ISBN
9781843835929 (hbk.)
1843835924 (hbk.)
Note
Frontispiece portrait of Bernarr Rainbow.
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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