Apollo's Swan and Lyre: Five Hundred Years of the Musicians' CompanyBoydell & Brewer, 2000 - 310 páginas The Worshipful company of Musicians, the only City Livery Company dedicated to the Performing Arts, celebrates its 500th anniversary in 2000. A new history by Richard Crewdson (Clerk to the Company 1967-87) marks the occasion by charting the eventful and often troubled life of the Company since 1500, and the earlier years when the London minstrels attempted to organise themselves into a guild. In the book the company's development is illustrated through the lives of individuals who were connected with it in one way or another - wealthy Jacobean musicians like Henry Walker who sold Shakespeare his Blackfriars house; Nicholas Lanier, first Master of the King's Music, determined to destroy the Company; Francis Pendleton, Elizabeth Pepys' dancing master; Tom Britton, the `small-coal man' and pioneer concert promoter, and many others. The company's fortunes ebbed and flowed. Even when it settled down as a 18th-century Dining Club it had to cope with an embezzling Clerk, and its first Alderman proved to be a fraudster and bankrupt. Surviving fitfully through the 19th century it enjoyed a great revival in the 1880s which took it triumphantly into the 20th century in its new role as patron of musicians. The main theme of this eminently readable book is presented against a background of national and local history and of London music, making it of special interest to a wide range of readers.RICHARD CREWDSON was Master of the Musicians Company, 1987-1988; he is now Senior Pastmaster. |
Contenido
Acknowledgements | xi |
The Year 1500 | 5 |
Making their Minstrelsy | 15 |
Tudor Revolution | 26 |
Royal Charter Bearings and Hall? | 62 |
Nicholas Lanier | 83 |
7 | 93 |
8 | 104 |
Near to Oblivion | 162 |
Westminster Bridge and the Loan Exhibition | 177 |
A TwentiethCentury Panorama | 227 |
Appendices | 243 |
5 | 267 |
8 | 273 |
Charter of King George VI 1950 | 277 |
293 | |
Términos y frases comunes
18th century annual appointed apprentice art or science Arthur award became Bye-laws Cathedral Charles Charter church City musicians City of London City Waits CL Rep Clerk Collard commonalty Company of Musicians Company's concerts Corporation Court of Aldermen Court of Assistants craft Dancing Masters Dinner Edward elected England English Feast fellowship fraternity Frederick freemen Fund grant guild Hall Henry Herbert Howells Honorary Freedom instruments James John join the Company king King's Minstrels King's Music liberties Livery Companies Liverymen Lord Mayor masque master and wardens medal minstrels mistery Musicians Company Musicians of London Nicholas Lanier ordinances organist parish performance person or persons petition play present professional musicians records reign Renter Warden Richard royal household sackbuts School of Music Science of Musicians shillings Sir Frederick Bridge Sir John Stainer St Cecilia St Paul's St Paul's Cathedral successors Tavern Thomas tion William