Tovey, Donald - The Classics of Music

The Classics of Music assembles here for the first time all of Tovey's significant writings not previously available as a collection. For much of the twentieth century, Donald Francis Tovey (1875-1940) has been Britain's most celebrated and influential writer on music, largely as a result of the considerable corpus of his work published by Oxford University Press in the 1930s and 1940s. However, as a prolific and popular lecturer, broadcaster, and essayist, Tovey left many writings unpublished at the time of his death. All the writings here are characteristically stimulating and stylish, making this essential collection available to a new generation of musicians.

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CONTENTS

I. Essays in Musical Analysis
II. Tovey as Journalist, Reviewer, and Obituarist (1902-1907, 1926-1934)
III. Composer-Articles in the Encyclopaedia Britannica (1929)
IV. Two Lecture Series from the 1920s
V. Broadcast Talks for the BBC in the 1920s
VI. Pieces on Several Occasions (1899-1939)
Index of Names
Index of Musical Ideas