| Unit name | Themes and Readings in the History of Music in Britain |
|---|---|
| Unit code | MUSIM0029 |
| Credit points | 40 |
| Level of study | M/7 |
| Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 1 (weeks 1 - 12) |
| Unit director | Emeritus Professor. Banfield |
| Open unit status | Not open |
| Pre-requisites |
None |
| Co-requisites |
None |
| School/department | Department of Music |
| Faculty | Faculty of Arts |
Music in Britain has always been subject to national conditions, histories and preferences that make it different from the history of music-making in other countries.The unit will account for and define ten of these differences, many of them operative over large spans of time: the Contenance angloise from Dunstable to Byrd; state patronage; vernacular musical theatre and bourgeois song; the music of state church and religious dissent from Reformation to nonconformism; London and the profession (concert life, instrument manufacture, publishing); Celtic and folksong revivals; bands and choirs; journalism and scholarship; nationalism (the 19th- and 20th-century musical renaissance); the pop revolution.
