The Royal College of Music and its Contexts: An Artistic and Social History

Contents

• Introduction - beginnings and contexts, the themes of a history;
• Part I . Building and Consolidating (1883-1914): 1. The founding directors - George Grove and Hubert Parry; 2. The students; 3. Establishing the musical and educational ethos - concerts and curriculum; 4. The buildings and finances; Coda - the First World
• Part II . Renewal and conventionality (1919-60): 5. Hugh Allen's RCM and musical life between the wars, 1919-1937; 6. The years of austerity - George Dyson and Ernest Bullock, 1938-1960;
• Part III . Changing Musical Cultures (1960-1984): 7. Keith Falkner and rebuilding institutional confidence, 1960-1974; 8. Crossing the RCM century - David Willcocks, 1974-84;
• Part IV . Into its Second Century, 1984-2018: 9. A changed state of rivalry - the RAM, the 'centre of excellence' and the Gowrie review, 1982-92; 10. The new realities of accounting and assuring - securing the RCM's public funding in the 1990s; 11. Reimag