My Musical Life
My Musical Life
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USDHugh Reginald Haweis (1838–1901) was a clergyman and writer. Published in 1884, this memoir deals with one of his great interests: music. He was a proficient violinist, and his musical writings included books on church bell-ringing, violins, and the best-selling Music and Morals (also reissued in this series), which had reached its sixteenth edition by his death. As curate of St James, Westmoreland Street, he used musical events as a way of turning an empty church into a fashionable one. He acted as music critic for Truth and the Pall Mall Gazette, in addition to lecturing and writing on religious subjects. The book recounts a lifetime of making and enjoying music, and conveys Haweis' emotional response to music from an early age. It is a record of nineteenth-century musical performances and changing tastes, which also demonstrates Haweis' belief in the reforming influence of music on morals and society.
Product details
October 2011Paperback
9781108038652
720 pages
216 × 140 × 40 mm
0.9kg
7 b/w illus.
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Table of Contents
- Prelude
- Book I. Early Days:
- 1. Norwood and London. 1846–60
- 2. Brighton and the Isle of Wight. 1850–6
- 3. Cambridge. 1856–9
- 4. Italy. 1860
- 5. Bethnal Green and Westminster. 1861–4
- Book II. By the Golden Sea:
- 1. Interlude on recurrent ideas
- 2. The rationale of music
- 3. Interlude of sense channels
- 4. Hearing music
- Book III. Cremona:
- 1. Interlude of a night at the Royal Institution
- 2. Old violins
- 3. Interlude on a certain loan collection
- 4. A South Kensington dream
- 5. Interlude on the oblivion of great men
- 6. Stradivarius of Cremona - his house
- 7. Interlude on some old violin players
- Book IV. The Music of the Future:
- 1. Interlude on the title of the fourth book
- 2. Wagner
- 3. Interlude on the last crown
- 4. Parsifal
- 5. Interlude on Bayreuth City
- 6. The Nibelung's Ring
- 7. Interlude on Tannhäuser and Lohengrin
- 8. Tannhäuser
- 9. Lohengrin
- 10. Interlude on phenomenal players
- 11. Liszt
- Postlude.
