Adventures in musical detection: scholarship, editions, productions and the future of the Savoy operas

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Abstract

Pursuing post-graduate research into the comic operas of Arthur Sullivan was, in 1975, considered in some academic quarters as frivolous, if not virtually a contradiction of terms. I was fortunate, however, in having been delivered into safe hands. The Professor of Music at the University College of Wales at Aberystwyth, Ian Parrott, was himself a pioneering Sullivan scholar – a perceptive article by him on Sullivan had appeared in Music and Letters as early as 1942.With the additional support of Sullivan's biographer, Percy Young, one of the department's external examiners, a provisional title was accepted for a PhD thesis: ‘The Theatre Music of Arthur Sullivan’. Broadened beyond the comic operas so that it could include the music written for the (respectable) Shakespeare plays, the subject was accepted
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationThe Cambridge Companion to Gilbert and Sullivan
EditorsDavid Eden, Meinhard Saremba
PublisherCambridge University Press
Pages229-242
ISBN (Electronic)9781139002639
ISBN (Print)978-0521716598, 0521716594
Publication statusPublished - 06 Aug 2009

Publication series

NameCambridge Companion to Music

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