English Taste Research Articles

J. S. BACH AND ENGLISH ORGAN MUSIC

To the musician one of the most interesting manifestations of the cultural sympathy between England and Germany at the beginning of the nineteenth century was the introduction into this country of J. S. Bach's music. The details of editions and arrangements have been written about before, from F. G. Edwards's articles the Musical Times (i896) onwards, but Bach's influence naturally spread beyond the publication of his own works into other spheres of English taste. These other spheres were first organ music, as distinct from church music general, and secondly real counterpoint, as distinct from the simple counterpoint usual eighteenth-century English music. This second, more academic influence of Bach was very much a later development, although as early as about I8o8 Samuel Wesley and C. F. Horn recommended the 'Well-tempered Clavier' the preface to their edition for the Advancement of all who are desirous of forming a perfect and symmetrical Style of Counterpoint. One has only to look at the still miserably Handelian, and even Corellian, counterpoint common choral and organ music of about I8IO to appreciate how great must have been the effect of Bach's works on the better musicians of Wesley's day. Bach's organ music was almost entirely new to England I8oo. Some puzzling references before that date make it necessary to include 'almost' the statement. In a footnote to some remarks by Marpurg, Burney wrote that he was in possession of the chief part of Bach's organ works, which he obtained Germany.' This may be only a misleading reference to his (mangled) copy of the 'Welltempered Clavier', which would have seemed to him and to every other English organist a book of organ pieces because it contained fugues. In view of his repeated opinions of Bach and his unobtrusive position organists' circles, it is not surprising that what pieces Burney did possess were not known to other performers. However, eleven of the 'Well-tempered Clavier' fugues were also at this time the possession of a more influential amateur musician-Lord Fitzwilliam. The German manuscript, now the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (32.G.I8) is signed 'R. Fitzwilliam I772'.

Handel's Dramatic Oratorios and Masques

Part 1: The oratorio before Handel the early works and Italian operas the Handelian synthesis Handel's style in the oratorios the background to performance the authographs and printed librettos the oratorios in performance the oratorio and English taste. Part 2: Acis and Galatea Deborah Athalia interlude 1733-1738 Saul interlude 1738-1742 Semele Joseph and his brethren Hercules Belshazzar Judas Macabaeus Alexander Balus Joshua Solomon Susanna Theodora the choice of Hercules Jephtha. Appendices: structural analysis instrumentation performances during Handel's life places of performance during Handel's life borrowings pieces sung in Italian variants in the text of Esther cuts in librettos of Samson Handel's oratorio singers stage revivals first lines of airs and duets.

Daniel O’Connell and the repeal party

One of the criticisms most frequently made of O’Connell’s conduct of his agitation for repeal of the union has always been that he failed to build up a parliamentary party that would be a credit to his cause. The accusation comes in its harshest form, naturally enough, from his political opponents at the time. A whig journalist, for instance, writing in 1843, described O’Connell’s followers in these terms: It would be difficult to have procured forty Irishmen with less of the wit or sparkling talent that abound in the ‘Emerald Isle’. The charge against them was not merely that they were such paltry senators, but that they were such wretched specimens of their countrymen. Judged by an Irish standard, without the slightest reference to English taste, their morale was of the lowest kind. There was nothing grand or elevating in their Donnybrook Fair school of patriotism. They could make a noise, and display animal vivacity, but when intellectual manifestations were demanded, they were powerless. With great opportunities, their party remained without distinction, for wit, eloquence, or conspicuous ability. Terribly afraid of O’Connell, who used them as the fingers and toes of his political system, theyCringed to his face, consulted, and reveredHis oracles—detested him—and feared.And it was either a whig or a tory journalist who invented for O’Connell’s party the wounding nickname of ‘O’Connell’s tail’, with its implication that the members of the party were without wills of their own, completely subservient to their leader’s commands. But it was not from whigs and tories alone that criticism came: earnest repealers themselves complained that their party was damaging the cause they had at heart.

English Taste in Landscape in the Seventeenth Century

English Taste in Landscape in the Seventeenth Century

Henry V. S. Ogden andMARGARET S. OGDEN,English Taste in Landscape in the Seventeenth Century

(1957). Henry V. S. Ogden and MARGARET S. OGDEN, English Taste in Landscape in the Seventeenth Century. The Art Bulletin: Vol. 39, No. 3, pp. 243-245.

Reviews of Books

Reviews of Books Get access English Taste in Landscape in the Seventeenth Century. By HENRY V. S. OGDEN and MARGARET S. OGDEN. ( Michigan University Press; London: Cumberlege 1955.) E. K. WATERHOUSE E. K. WATERHOUSE Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume LXXII, Issue CLXXXII, January 1957, Pages 120–122, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/LXXII.CLXXXII.120 Published: 01 January 1957

A Calendar of British Taste from 1600 to 1800, by E. F. Carritt, (Routledge & Kegan Paul; 21s.)

A Calendar of British Taste from 1600 to 1800, by E. F. Carritt, (Routledge & Kegan Paul; 21s.)

Faith and History, by Reinhold Niebuhr. (Nisbet; 16s.)

Book reviewed in this article:Ritual Magic, by E. M. Butler. (Cambridge University Press; 25s.)The Bugbear of Literacy, by Anada K. Coomaraswamy, with an Introduction by Robert Allerton ParkerLast Chance in Africa, by Negley FarsonOutline: An Autobiography, by Paul Nash. (Faber; 30s.)Medieval Glass at All Souls College, by F. E. HutchinsonA Calendar of British Taste from 1600 to 1800, by E. F. CarrittMen of Stones, by Rex Warner. (Bodley Head; 9s.)Earlier Diplomatic History, 1492–1713, by Sir Charles Petrie,Arabic‐Andalusian Casidas. Translated with an Introduction by Harold Morland

A History of Fairfax Criticism

Edward Fairfax, Elizabethan poet and translator, is most famous for his version of Tasso's Gerusalemme Liberata. Opinions of this book have varied so greatly that Fairfax critics alone afford an interesting cross-section of English taste. We may see the author admired by his contemporaries for his Italianate richness of description, praised by the seventeenth century for his smoothness and heroics, neglected by the eighteenth for his lack of elegance and rime (i.e., of couplets), revived by the romantics for his touching passages of emotion, and left on the shelf today because, perhaps, we have other things to think about.

英國人の俚諺趣味 : SWIFTのPOLITE CONVERSATIONを軸として

英國人の俚諺趣味 : SWIFTのPOLITE CONVERSATIONを軸として

Reviews

Robert Kilburn Root, The Poetical Career of Alexander Pope, reviewed by A. S. P. Woodhouse Geoffrey Tillotson, On the Poetry of Pope, reviewed by A. S. P. Woodhouse B. Sprague Allen, Tides in English Taste (1619-1800): A Background for the Study of Literature, reviewed by A. S. P. Woodhouse Hoxie Neale Fairchild, Religious Trends in English Poetry, Vol. I: 1700-40, Protestantism and the Cult of Sentiment, reviewed by A. S. P. Woodhouse Carleton Stanley, Matthew Arnold, reviewed by Howard F. Lowry W. H. Watson, On Understanding Physics, reviewed by Frank Allen J. W. Allen, English Political Thought, 1603-1660; volume I, 1603-1644, reviewed by A. E. Barker William Haller, The Rise of Puritanism; or, the Way to the New Jerusalem as Set Forth in Pulpit and Press from Thomas Cartwright to John Lilburne and John Milton, 1570-1643, reviewed by A. E. Barker

REVIEWS

Journal Article REVIEWS Get access Italian Landscape in Eighteenth-Century England. A Study chiefly of the Influence of Claude Lorrain and Salvator Rosa on English Taste, 1700–1800. By ELIZABETH WHEELER MANWARINGNew York: Oxford University Press. London: Humphrey Milford. 1925. Pp. vii.+243. 14s. OSWALD DOUGHTY OSWALD DOUGHTY Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Review of English Studies, Volume os-III, Issue 9, January 1927, Pages 95–97, https://doi.org/10.1093/res/os-III.9.95 Published: 01 January 1927

English Taste for Light Wines

English Taste for Light Wines Get access Notes and Queries, Volume s2-XI, Issue 278, 27 April 1861, Pages 325–326, https://doi.org/10.1093/nq/s2-XI.278.325c Published: 27 April 1861

The Circulation within the Cranium in relation to Mental Disorders; and on German Psychological Medicine

Within the last twenty years, the influence of German literature and science, previously little felt, has operated strongly upon English thought and English society. German literature, popularized by translation, finds a multitude of admiring readers; yet, compared with German science, its effects on the opinions and, consequently, on the practical habits of our fellow-countrymen have been trifling. In the modern history of metaphysics, German works occupy a most prominent place; and in religious thought, such has been the influence of the productions of the German press, that the prevailing theology is deeply imbued with what are called the rationalistic or neological principles of German professors. So when we look to modern physic, we also find its principles intimately connected with the researches and hypotheses of German physicians; so much so, indeed, that there has arisen in the medical profession a rational school, ignoring many an old-world theory of the principles and practice of medicine. What has been more popular, more readily received in this country than German physiology? It is not only represented by translated treatises, but actually forms the basis of home-produced works. The German writers furnish, in their elaborate treatises and monographs, the quarry from which the material is mainly drawn for the construction of English works; and this we can safely assert, after giving credit for much good English matter and for skill in modelling the whole structure to the English taste. German physiology, having preceded, has latterly been followed by German pathology, foremost among the teachers of which stands Professor Virchow, whose remarkable treatise on cellular pathology has recently appeared in an English dress, and commends itself by the mass of facts it contains, as well as by its ingenious hypotheses, to every pathological student.