Wilfrid Mellers
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Wilfrid Mellers (born April 26, 1914) is an English music critic, musicologist and composer.
From 1964 until 1981 he was founding professor and head of the Music Department at the University of York; he remains emeritus professor of music there. He also is an honorary fellow at Downing College, Cambridge. On July 12, 1981, he received an honorary degree of music from the City University, London.
The 2004 York Late Music Festival opened with a weekend tribute to Mellers. A 90th birthday tribute concert was held in October 2004 at Downing College, featuring music by Mellers as well as new pieces written for the occasion by Stephen Dodgson, David Matthews and Howard Skempton, among others.
[edit] Books by Mellers
- Music and Society: England and the European Tradition (1946)
- Studies in Contemporary Music (1947)
- Music in the Making (1951)
- Romanticism and the 20th Century, from 1800 (1957)
- The Sonata Principle, from c. 1750 (1957)
- Man and His Music (1962; Vols. 3 & 4 by Mellers)
- Music in a New Found Land: Themes and Developments in the History of American Music (1964)
- Harmonious Meeting: A study of the relationship between English music, poetry and theatre, c.1600 (1965)
- Caliban Reborn: Renewal in Twentieth-Century Music (1968)
- Twilight of the Gods: the Beatles in Retrospect (1973)
- Bach and the Dance of God (1980)
- Beethoven and the Voice of God (1983)
- A Darker Shade of Pale: a Backdrop to Bob Dylan (1984)
- Angels of the Night: Popular Female Singers of Our Time (1986)
- Vaughan Williams and the Vision of Albion (1989)
- Percy Grainger (1992)
- Francis Poulenc (1993)
- Between Old Worlds and New (1997)
- Singing in the Wilderness: Music and Ecology in the Twentieth Century (2001)
- Celestial Music?: Some Masterpieces of European Religious Music (2002)
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