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The Music Section
Vaughan Williams and Holst Two great friends who pioneered a new English style with varying success. Not just the composers of Greensleeves and the Planets, Vaughan Williams and Holst followed Elgar’s lead as two of the standard bearers of the English Musical Renaissance. Both were from Gloucestershire but they met as students at the Royal… Read more »
Puccini and Verismo Opera A detailed studies of each of Puccini’s operas and a selection of his other works compared to the works of contemporaries. The course followed Puccini’s life chronologically from the poverty of his childhood when he was destined to follow in his father’s footsteps as a church composer, his student days when… Read more »
Walmer Suite This suite of five short piano pieces were written or revised whilst I was teaching at a small school in Walmer, Kent. The pieces are all suitable for teaching piano techniques. I was the head of History at the school but also taught History of Music and Music Theory to the older pupils. … Read more »