TY - CHAP
T1 - Adventures in musical detection:
T2 - scholarship, editions, productions and the future of the Savoy operas
AU - Hulme, David Russell
PY - 2009/8/6
Y1 - 2009/8/6
N2 - 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
AB - 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
M3 - Chapter
SN - 978-0521716598
SN - 0521716594
T3 - Cambridge Companion to Music
SP - 229
EP - 242
BT - The Cambridge Companion to Gilbert and Sullivan
A2 - Eden, David
A2 - Saremba, Meinhard
PB - Cambridge University Press
ER -