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Most readers recognize E. M. Forster as the early twentieth-century writer who wrote about India; some remember his socially relevant and thematically wide-ranging Edwardian novels and short stories, and a posthumously published novel about male homosexuality. What many might not have known is that, in 1969, Benjamin Britten praised Forster as ‘our most musical novelist’. […]
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In a passage of A Room of One’s Own, Virginia Woolf reported that Italian men of letters had expressed their hope – in a telegram to il Duce Benito Mussolini – that ‘the Fascist era would soon give birth to a poet worthy of it’. She, for one, was skeptical: ‘The Fascist poem, one may […]
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Though computers have been used to make music since the 1950s, the modern tradition of video game music dates from the 1970s. Game music proper begins with arcade games like Gun Fight (1975), which features a fragment of a Chopin Piano Sonata, and the background ostinato of Space Invaders (1978), which increases in tempo as […]
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Since its invention in the ninth century, musical notation in the West has become an increasingly complex and sophisticated form of symbolic, non-verbal communication. The study of notation in its historical context reveals the strategies through which musicians created innovative solutions for the problem of capturing, in symbols, the sounds that comprise the musics they […]
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Sandro Botticelli’s Birth of Venus is a darling of the art world. The windblown goddess appears on calendars, magnets, aprons, and handbags. At Epcot (Disney Land Resorts), visitors can step inside the painting and pose as Venus – clothing is required! In addition to kitsch reproductions, the Birth of Venus has also inspired original works […]
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It was in April 2014, I think, when I first exchanged the comforts of the Bodleian Library (Oxford) for the Baltic, and that razor-sharp wind on St Petersburg’s river Neva (accent on VA, if you please). My modest hotel room, in Pushkin-esque décor, was in the poet’s former residence on the Angliskaya Naberezhnaya, the English […]
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Arnold Whittall, Professor Emeritus at King’s College, London, is one of the most respected figures in CUP’s music list. His publishing record with the Press is immense, and spans nearly forty years. But it is above all his editorship of Music since 1900, and its precursor series Music in the Twentieth Century, which arguably constitutes […]
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A corpse is lifted from the back of a wagon during the 1832 cholera epidemic. Coloured lithograph, c. 1832.
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