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Caldwell Festschrift Published
The major themes of the essays in this new collection from Boydell & Brewer - Essays on the History of English Music in Honour of John Caldwell - reflect the work of
the distinguished scholar and composer John Caldwell, Emeritus Professor of Music at Oxford. There is a strong focus on
early music, with contributions considering the medieval carol, sources
for seventeenth- and eighteenth-century harpsichord music, and the
transmission of fifteenth-century English music to the Continent; but
they range right up to the twentieth century, with an examination of
music in Oxford. All are concerned in one way or another with themes
which recur in Professor Caldwell's scholarship: sources, style,
performance and historiography.
The volume is edited by a present and a former member of the Music Faculty: Dr DAVID MAW (Lecturer at Christ Church and Oriel) and Dr EMMA HORNBY (University of Bristol; formerly JRF at Worcester and Lecturer at Christ Church).
Many of the contributors are also present members of - or have strong connections with - the Music Faculty: SALLY HARPER, DAVID HILEY, EMMA HORNBY, HARRY JOHNSTONE, MARGARET BENT, DAVID MAW, MATTHIAS RANGE, REINHARD STROHM, PETER WRIGHT, MAGNUS WILLIAMSON, JOHN HARPER, SIMON MCVEIGH, CHRISTOPHER PAGE, OWEN REES, SUSAN WOLLENBERG, JOHN ARTHUR SMITH, BENNETT ZON, DAVID MAW.
Having studied at Keble with Jack Westrup and Frank Ll. Harrison (BA, BMus and DPhil), and after a short stint as a Lecturer at Bristol University, John Caldwell joined the Oxford Music Faculty as a Lecturer in 1966. And here he remained, most recently as Professor of Music and Fellow of Jesus College, until his retirement a few years ago. Though now an emeritus member of the Faculty, Professor Caldwell remains an active contributor to the life of our community, supervising and examining students, and as a scholar and composer.