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Finding the Meaning of Music and Morality - Boydell and Brewer

Guest post written by Paul Watt who is Adjunct Professor of Musicology in The University of Adelaide. The ‘go-to’ text for anyone who wants to understand the relationship between music and morality in the nineteenth century is H.R. Haweis’s 1874 book, Music and Morals, despite the fact that it doesn’t deal with music and morality ....

University Of Adelaide , South Australia , United States , United Kingdom , Michael Allis , Paul Watt , Octavia Hilland , Ernest Newman , Queen Victoria , Durham University , Adjunct Professor , British Prime Ministers , North America , Social Reform , Nineteenth Century Britain , Critical Biography , Boydell Press , Symphonic Poem ,

Books of the year I: a choice of reading in 2023

Andrew Motion Something old made new: The Iliad in Emily Wilson’s muscular and moving new translation, the first by a woman, is truly what it claims to be – a version for our time (Norton, £30). And something new made immediate: Hannah Sullivan’s second collection of poems, Was It For This (Faber, £12.99), ambitiously extends ....

United Kingdom , West Bengal , Brighton And Hove , United States , East Germany , Jonathan Raban , Wendy Mitchell , Louise Doughty , Ysenda Maxtone Graham , Simon Heffer , Emily Wilson , Angela Carter , Lady Antonia Fraser , Roland Allen , Andrew Motion , Rebecca Whittington , Zadie Smith , Frederick Forsyth , Hannah Sullivan , Francesca Peacock , Michael Joseph , Artemisia Gentileschi , Weidenfeld Nicolson , William Collins , Duncan Fallowell , Birnam Wood Granta ,