CHOMBEC News

CHOMBEC publishes a newsletter, CHOMBEC News, twice yearly, which is distributed to Friends and Associates. As well as news and reviews, regular features include: articles on 'Music and Locality', focussing on music in the south west; features on the work of our Associates across the globe; articles introducing members of the management committee.

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Issues one to nine are now available to download as PDFs. Please see the links below to view the back issues.

 

Contents: CHOMBEC News, Issue 13 (Summer 2012)

• Australia’s First (British) Musical Import: The ‘Rogue’s March’ – Nick Nourse
• Retirement of Stephen Banfield – John Pickard
• Conference report: Papers on British Music at the Society for Musicology in Ireland Annual Conference, Dundalk, June 2012 – Fabian Huss
• Theatre Histories / Music Histories Series, University of Bristol – Catherine Hindson
• The English Music Festival 2012 – Em Marshall-Luck
• Relocation of Robert Lucas Pearsall’s Gravestone
• Research reports: English Music in the Festival of Britain’s Season of the Arts – Nathaniel G Lew
• Research reports: Music in the Mander and Mitchenson Theatre Collection – Christopher O’Brien
• From our corresponding members: The Music and Musicians of Bath’s Eighteenth-Century Proprietary Chapels – Mathew Spring, Bath Spa University
• From our corresponding members: Music Criticism in Late Nineteenth-Century England – Paul Wat, Monash University
• Research students: Organ Recitals at the Brighton Aquarium – Makiko Hayasaka
• Review: Nicholas Temperley and Stephen Banfield, eds, Music and the Wesleys – Sam Allchurch

 

Contents: CHOMBEC News, Issue 12 (Winter 2011/2012)

• Jeanice Brooks – ‘Music at Killerton’: an Exciting New Research Project from the University of Southampton
• Wyndham Thomas – Landmarks in Music since 1950
• Esmeralda Rocha – Australian Conference
• Fabian Huss – EJ Moeran Second Symphony Article and Score
• Em Marshall – The English Music Festival 2011
• Research Report – ‘A Gem of Purest Ray Serene’: Exploring the Sonata for Piano and Violin of Arthur Bliss, by Rupert Luck
• From Our Corresponding Members:

• 1: Libby Concord, News from British Columbia
• 2: Morag J Grant, Dr Kenneth Elliott (1929-2011), An Appreciation
• 3: Kate Bowan, Music and the ‘Civilising’ Mission in the Colonies of Settlement

• Research Students 11: William Yeates Hurlstone (1876 – 1906), by Christopher Redwood
• Review: Stephen Banfield reviews Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, a Musical Life by Jeffrey Green
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Contents: CHOMBEC News, Issue 11 (Summer 2011)

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• Jennifer Hill – The ‘New’ Grainger Museum at the University of Melbourne
• Stephen Banfield – Acquisition of the Mander & Mitchenson Collection
• Lewis Foreman – Henry Walford Davies: an appraisal
• Peter Holman introduces his new book, Life After Death: Viola da Gamba in Britain from Purcell to Dolmetsch
• Music and Locality: 8 – ‘Revd. Charles Marson and his Contribution to the English Folk Revival’ by David Sutcliffe
• From our Corresponding Members 1: ‘Music in the Oxford Women’s Colleges’ by Susan Wollenberg
• From our Corresponding Members 2: ‘Report from France’ by Amanda Haste
• Research Projects – ‘The Early Music Pioneer Archives’ by Paul Thwaites
• Research Projects – ‘Transports of Delight: The Broadwood Archive’ by Madeline Goold
• Research Students 10 – ‘Ivor Gurney’s Piano Trios’ by Richard Carder
• Review – David Manning reviews Erik Chisholm Scottish Modernist (1904—1965): Chasing a Restless Muse by John Purser

 

Contents: CHOMBEC News, Issue 10 (Winter 2010/11)

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• Report: ‘Music and the Wesleys Successfully Launched’
• Conference Reports: Marshall Hall Symposium, Melbourne, by Sue Robinson
• Conference on British Music, Melbourne, by Paul Watt
• Music and Locality 7: ‘Mapping the Singing Landscape’ by Yvette Staelens
• ‘The Music of Georgian Bath’ by Matthew Spring
• Research Reports: 1. Anne-Marie Forbes, ‘“Songs of Experience”, the Contribution of Fritz Hart’
• Research Reports:2. Sue Cole, ‘Sir Richard R Terry and the Tudor Church Music Edition’
• Research Students 9: Philip Burnett, ‘The Music of the Anglican Missions in the Eastern Cape’
• Forthcoming: ‘Inter-Varsity Folk Dance Festival’, by Gavin Skinner

 

Contents: CHOMBEC News, Issue 9 (Summer 2010)

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• Report on the fourth CHOMBEC conference, ‘Worlds to Conquer’
• Report by Fabian Huss on CHOMBEC’s ‘“O Vision Entrancing”–a British opera study-day: exploring the history of British operas, musicians and travelling opera in the 19th and 20th centuries’
• Music and Locality 6: ‘Samuel Sebastian Wesley and Bristol’, by Peter Horton
• ‘From the Hotwells to Avonmouth Industrial Estate; 150 years of Bristol’s pleasure gardens’, by Nick Nourse
• Research reports: Celia Durk on ‘Sydney Jones (1861–1946)
• Research reports: A J Parker on ‘A west gallery manuscript from Dunster’
• Research reports: Timothy Byram-Wigfield on ‘Alfred Hollins’
• Research students 8: ‘Anglican monastic music in the 21st century’, Amanda Haste
• Research students: ‘Sir John Leman Rogers (1780¬–1847) visits the Antipodes’, James Hobson

 

Contents: CHOMBEC News, Issue 8 (Winter 2009/10)

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• Report on the 7th Biennial Conference on Music in 19th-Century Britain, held at the University of Bristol last year
• Report on the CHOMBEC lectures by Tom Sutcliffe and Guido Heldt at the University of Bristol last year
• Music in the West Country: its social history from the late 17th century - a progress report by Stephen Banfield
• 'Civilising Calcutta: Opera as a tool of colonisation in 1830s Calcutta', by Esmeralda Rocha
• Research reports: Janet Snowman reports on 'Pardon Miss Westcott'
• Research reports: Steven Martin reports on 'British Opera on Television, 1936-1938'
• Research reports: Geoff Woolfe reports on 'A Somerset Fiddle-Player's Manuscript'
• From Australia a call for papers for the Conference on British Music, Monash University, Sept. 2010
• Research students: Fabian Huss reports on 'The Chamber Music of Frank Bridge'
• Events

 

Contents: Issue 7 (Summer 2009)

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• Welcome from the new director, John Pickard
• CHOMBEC news and events: Monash University’s British Music research cluster, Paul Watt
• CHOMBEC news and events: ‘Recital of English and Bristol-related Songs’, by  Christopher Redwood
• ‘British Music Studies in North America: a brief history of NABMSA’, by Dorothy de Val
• Research Reports: Jeremy Maritz, ‘British organ-building in South Africa’
• Research Reports: Matthew Thomas, ‘William Wrenn: Bristol’s forgotten flute-player’
• Research Reports: Jonathan James Small and Martin J. Crossley Evans, ‘Ernest Bryant Crampton M.A. (1881-1941) – The Man and his Music’
• From our corresponding members: ‘The Ethel Smyth Symposium, Detmold, September 2008’, by Susan Wollenberg
• From our corresponding members: ‘British Music in Chicago: two recent concerts’, by Karl Kroeger
• Research students: ‘Who took the singing out of popular song? The demise of the people’s song in England and the Empire, 1800–1850’, Nick Nourse
• Research students: ‘Bath in Peril’, Andrew Clarke
• From the newspapers a century ago
• Events

 

Contents: Issue 6 (Winter 2008)

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• Welcome from the Director
• CHOMBEC Workshop Report: The Sounds of Stonehenge
• News: Music from Georgian Bristol CHOMBEC concert
• Archive News: Giles Cooke on The John Raynor Archive
• From our Honorary Associates 5: Harry Diack Johnstone
• Research Reports: Kirsty Reid on Ballads,
• Nick Morgan on The National Gramophonic Society,
• Morag Grant on Music, Conflict and the State
• Letters to the Editor
• From the Archives: David Hackbridge Johnson on The Frank Merrick Archive at Bristol University
• Paul Watt: Third Study Day, Australian Study Group for British Music
• Libby Concord: Of Women and Music in Colonial Victoria
• Research Students 4: Douglas Stevens, Assessing the Music of Sir Lennox Berkeley
• Esmeralda Rocha: Opera across the British Empire During the Victorian Era
• Book Review by James Hobson of Suzanne Cole, Thomas Tallis and his Music in Victorian England
• Study day: Celia Durk reports on 'Cultivating Britons: culture and identity in Britain, 1901-1936'
• Study day: James Hobson reports on 'English Cathedral Music: the long 19th century to the present'

 

Contents: Issue 5 (Summer 2008)

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• Welcome from the Director
• The Edgar Hunt Estate Bequest
• News: Rubbra Revived: Sinfonia sacra and Beyond
• Giles Cooke: A Tippett Archive
• Philip Payton reports
• Michael Wright and Angela Impey: The Birmingham-KwaZulu Natal Connection
• David R M Irving: Musical colonialism in the far east
• Philip Lancaster: 'A gathering place of beauty' Recent developments in the research into the life and work of Ivor Gurney
• Karl Kroeger: Leicester's Lady Organists, 1770-1800
• Richard Barnard: Otto
• Sue Cole: Tudorism
• James Hobson: Austin Phillips
• Book review by John Pickard on David Manning (ed.), Vaughan Williams on Music
• Study day review by Celia Durk: Exploring Cornish Music
• Book review by Karl Kroeger on Nicholas Temperley and Sally Drage (eds.), Eighteenth-Century Psalmody

 

Contents: Issue 4 (Winter 2007)

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• Welcome from the Director
• The Stanley Godman Archive
• Archival donation: The Bristol Madrigal Society Archive
• News: William Byrd: The Songs and English Church Music
• Preview: Two CHOMBEC Workshops: Vaughan Williams and Rubbra
• Music and Locality 3: Wyndham Thomas, 'Making their Mark in New Zealand: The Contrasting Fortunes of Harry and Herbert Spackman, c.1882-1900'
• Roe-Min Kok, 'Growing Up with Western Classical Music in Malaysia'
• Morag Grant, 'Auld Lang Syne: Notes from a Journey'
• Kate Bowan, 'Some Early 20th-Century Australian Music in Context'
• Stephanus Muller, 'The Documentation Centre for Music (DOMUS), University of Stellensbosch, South Africa'
• Research Students 4: Steven Martin, 'Edward Naylor's Tokugawa Overture and the Nanki Auditorium'
• News from the CHOMBEC Management Committee 4: Guido Heldt
• Book Review by Robert Bickers of K.Darian-Smith, P.Grimshaw and S.Macintyre (eds) Britishness Abroad: Transnational Movements and Imperial Cultures (Melbourne University Press, 2007)
• Festival Review: Diana McVeagh, '18th Annual Bard Music Festival: Elgar and his World'
• Forthcoming events

 

Contents: Issue 3 (Summer 2007)

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• Welcome from the Director
• Music, Cultural History and the Wesleys [a review of the CHOMBEC conference, July 2007]
• Archival donation: CHOMBEC receives the papers of musicologist Stanley Godman
• Music and Locality 2: Susan Wollenberg, 'Remnant of a lost civilisation? Margaret Deneke and Music in Oxford (and elsewhere)'
• From our Honorary Associates 3: Nicholas Temperley, 'More Psalms, Hymns and Anthems'
• Research Students 3: Andrew Britton, 'The Guitar in Bristol and Bath in the Early 19th Century'
• Yu Lee An, Music Publishing in London from 1780 to 1837 as reflected in the Music Publishers' Catalogues'
• Review: Andrew Brown, 'Sir George Dyson and The Canterbury Pilgrims: A Celebration.
• CHOMBEC Study Day on Sir George Dyson, 17 March 2007: conversation between Freeman Dyson and Stephen Banfield [transcription]
• Sue Cole, '2nd British Music Study Day – Saturday 5 May 2007'
• Book review by James Hobson of Brian Robins, Catch and Glee Culture in Eighteenth-Century England (Woodbridge: Boydell, 2006)
• Forthcoming events

 

Contents: Issue 2 (Winter 2006)

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• A message from the Director
• Celebrating George Dyson: study day and performance of The Canterbury Pilgrims on 17 March
• Archival donation: CHOMBEC receives the papers of musicologist Stanley Godman
• Music and Locality 2: Susan Wollenberg, 'Remnant of a lost civilisation? Margaret Deneke and Music in Oxford (and elsewhere)'
• From our Honorary Associates 2: Barry Smith, 'Music Makers in Cape Town'
• Research Students 2: Amanda Haste, 'The Role of Music in Anglican Monastic Communities in the 20th Century'
• News from the CHOMBEC Management Committee 2: Ronald Hutton, 'Druids: the Musical'
• Project Update: Ivor Gurney
• Sue Cole, Report on the inaugural Study Day held by the Australian Study Group for British Music
• Book review by Christopher Fifield of Lionel Carley, Edvard Grieg in England (Woodbridge: Boydell, 2006)
• Forthcoming events
• Announcement of Second CHOMBEC Conference, marking the tercentenary of Charles Wesley's birth: 'Music, Cultural History and the Wesleys'

 

Contents: Issue 1 (Summer 2006)

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• A message from the Director
• Review: The CHOMBEC launch, 20 March 2006
• Archival donation: CHOMBEC offers a new home to the manuscripts of John Raynor
• Music and Locality 1: Wyndham Thomas, 'The Spackman Family: Domestic and Professional Music-Making in Corsham and the Colonies (c.1860-1940)'
• James Hobson, 'Robert Lucas Pearsall'
• From our Honorary Associates 1: Kerry Murphy, 'Letter from Australia'
• News from the CHOMBEC Management Committee: Philip Lancaster
• David Manning and John Pickard, 'Bristol's Musical History: A View from the University Archives'
• Forthcoming events

 

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