Cuthbert Morton Girdlestone (born Bovey Tracey, Devon, 17 September 1895; [1] died December 1975) was a British musicologist and literary scholar. Bovey Tracey is a small town in Devon on the edge of Dartmoor, its proximity to which gives rise to the "slogan" used on the town's boundary signs "The Devon is a large county in the South West of England. The county is also referred to as Devonshire, but that is an entirely unofficial name Events 1176 - The Battle of Myriokephalon is fought 1462 - The Battle of Świecino (or Battle of Żarnowiec Year 1895 ( MDCCCXCV) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year Year 1975 ( MCMLXXV) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Musicology ( Greek: μουσική = "music" and λόγος = "word" or "reason" is the scholarly study of Music He was educated at Cambridge and the Sorbonne, and thereafter took up the chair in French in Armstrong College, later to be King's College in Newcastle in 1926, a position he held until 1960. The University of Cambridge (often Cambridge University) located in Cambridge, England, is the second-oldest university in the Newcastle upon Tyne ( (often shortened to Newcastle) is a city and Metropolitan borough of Tyne and Wear, England His most famous publications were his much reprinted study of the Mozart Piano Concertos (1939, published originally in French) and on Jean-Philippe Rameau (1957). Piano concertos Origins Early keyboard concertos were written by among others C Jean-Philippe Rameau (ʒɑ̃filip ʀaˈmo in French (September 25 1683 – September 12 1764 was one of the most important French Composers and music theorists
References
- ^ Grove, George (1954). Sir George Grove ( August 13, 1820 &ndash May 28, 1900) was an English writer on Music, immortalised in the title of Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 3rd Edition, F-G. New York: St. Martin's Press, 651.
- Obituary notice (1976). The Musical Times, 117, 249.
Books written
- Girdlestone, Cuthbert. Mozart et ses concertos pour piano. Paris, Fischbacher. 1939.
- Girdlestone, Cuthbert. Mozart and His Piano Concertos. New York: Dover Publications, 1964. "An unabridged and corrected republication of the second (1958) edition of the work first published in 1948 by Cassell & Company, Ltd. , London, under the title Mozart’s Piano Concertos. " A translation of Mozart et ses concertos pour piano. ISBN 0-486-21271-8 (pbk. ) (3rd edition published London: Cassell, 1978. ISBN 0-304-30043-8. )
- Girdlestone, Cuthbert. Jean-Philippe Rameau, His Life and Work. London: Cassell. 1957. (2nd Edition: Paris: Lettres modernes, 1968, and in English: New York: Dover Publications, 1969. Dover Publications is an American book Publisher founded in 1941 by Hayward Cirker and his wife Blanche ISBN 0-486-21416-8. )
- Girdlestone, Cuthbert. Jean-Philippe Rameau: sa vie, son œuvre. Desclée de Brouwer, 1983, ©1962. ISBN 2-220-02439-3.
- Girdlestone, Cuthbert. La tragédie en musique, considéré comme genre littéraire. Droz, Geneva. 1972. OCoLC 772775.
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