George Grove, Music and Victorian Culture

Preface and acknowledgements PART 1: GROVE'S WORLD Introduction: The Many Interests of a Great Victorian; M.Musgrave Grove the Man: Background, Temperament and Ambition; C.Clarke & M.Musgrave Describing and Evaluating: Grove on Technology, Geography, Exploration and Literature; M.Musgrave PART 2: THE SCHOLAR AND WRITER 'The Other Dictionary': Grove's Work in Editing Dr Smith's Dictionary of the Bible ; P.M.Young The Making of a Scholar: Grove's Beethoven, Mendelssohn and Schubert; M.Musgrave Not just 'G': Towards a History of the Programme Note; C.Bashford PART 3: AT MACMILLAN Grove as Editor of Macmillan's Magazine 1868-1883; R.T.Van Arsdel Roots of a Tradition: The First Dictionary of Music and Musicians ; L.Langley PART 4: THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF MUSIC Grove's Role in the Founding of the RCM; D.Wright Grove as First Director of the RCM; J.Ritterman The Documentary Legacy: Grove's Library and Papers at the RCM; P.Horton Chronology Appendicies Bibliography Index