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Professor Jeremy Dibble, PhD (So'ton), MA (Cantab)

Professor in the Department of Music

Telephone: +44 (0) 191 33 43158

Contact (email at jeremy.dibble@durham.ac.uk)

Biography

Jeremy Dibble studied music at Trinity College, Cambridge (with Philip Radcliffe, Richard Marlow, Peter le Huray and Robin Holloway) and at Southampton University (with Peter Evans). Before he was appointed as a lecturer at Durham in 1993, he was a lecturer in music at University College, Cork. He teaches courses in harmony and counterpoint, musicianship, nineteenth- and twentieth-century music, and includes special topics in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century English song and Brahms. He also directs the Durham University Consort of Voices which performs several times a year in the university, including an annual recital in the Chapter House of Durham Cathedral. He is a member of the Centre for Nineteenth-Century Music at Durham and Chairman of the University’s professional concert series, MUSICON.

Jeremy Dibble’s research specialisms lie in British and Irish music of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, an area which includes not only composer studies, but also musical criticism and aesthetics, church music, hymnology, song, light music, opera and instrumental music. He is best known for his monographs C. Hubert H. Parry: His Life and Music (Oxford: OUP, 1992 rev. 1998) and Charles Villiers Stanford: Man and Musician (Oxford: OUP, 2002) and for his recent edition of Parry’s Violin Sonatas for Musica Britannica (Vol. LXXX, 2003). He has also edited, with Bennett Zon, Volume 2 of Ashgate’s Nineteenth-Century British Music Studies (2002), and is musical editor of the forthcoming Canterbury Dictionary of Hymnology (with Dick Watson); he has also contributed numerous essays to books including ‘Dannreuther and the Orme Square Phenomenon’ for British Music and Culture (eds. Bashford and Langley, 2000), ‘Elgar and his British Contemporaries’ to the Cambridge Companion to Elgar (eds. Rushton and Grimley, 2005), and Chapter 8, ‘Musical Trends and the Western Church: A Collision of the Ancient and Modern’, for Cambridge University Press’s World Christianities. He has contributed many articles on British composers to the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, the revised Oxford Companion to Music, the new edition of Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart, Thoemmes’ Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century British Philosophers and Grolier’s Encyclopaedia of the Victorian Era. He is presently preparing a book on the life and work of John Stainer and an edition of Parry’s Piano Trios for Musica Britannica.

Current and recent supervision of research projects has included: the music of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Frederic Cowen, Hamish MacCunn, William Gillies Whittaker, Archibald Potter, Elgar and Wagner, Eric Coates, Chopin in England and Scotland, Poulenc's a cappella sacred works, the music of Josip Slavenski, the history of the Royal College of Music 1883-1918 and Tractarian hymnology.

Research Interests

British and Irish music of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
British musical criticism
Church music

Selected Publications

Books: authored

Dibble JC 2007. John Stainer: A Life in Music. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell & Brewer. (View publication online)
Dibble JC 2002. Charles Villiers Stanford: Man and Musician. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (View publication online)
Dibble JC 1992. C. Hubert H. Parry: His Life and Music. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Books: edited

Dibble JC & Zon B 2002. Nineteenth-Century British Music Studies Vol. 2. Nineteenth-Century British Music Studies. Aldershot: Ashgate.

Books: sections

Dibble JC 2004. 'Elgar and His British Contemporaries'. In The Cambridge Companion to Elgar. Grimley, D. & Rushton, J. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 15-23. (View publication online)
Dibble JC 2003. 'Theses'. In Information Sources in Music. Foreman L Munich: K G Saur. 168-177.
Dibble JC 2002. 'Fantasy and Hybridization in the British Variation Tradition'. In Ninteenth-Century British Music Studies. Dibble, J C & Zon, B Aldershot: Ashgate Press. 2: 235-250.
Dibble JC 2002. 'Parry's Guenever: Trauma and Catharsis'. In King Arthur in Music. Barber, R Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer. 35-50.
Dibble JC 2001. 'Grove's Musical Dictionary: A National Document'. In Musical Constructions of Nationalism: Essays on the History and Ideology of European Musical Culture 1800-1945. White, H & Murphy, M Cork: Cork University Press. 33-50.
Dibble JC 2001. 'The Death of a Culture: Germany and British Music before 1914'. In Oh, My Horses: Elgar and the Great War. Foreman, L Rickmansworth: Elgar Editions. 73-88.
Dibble JC 2000. 'Dannreuther and the Orme Square Phenomenon'. In Music and British Culture, 1785-1914: Essays in Honour of Cyril Ehrlich. Bashford, C & Langley, L Oxford: Oxford University Press. 275-298.
Dibble JC 1999. 'Parry as Historiographer'. In Nineteenth-Century British Music StudiesAldershot. Zon, B Aldershot: Ashgate. 1: 37-51.
Dibble JC 1998. 'Parry, Stanford and Vaughan Williams: The Creation of Tradition'. In Ralph Vaughan Williams in Perspective. Foreman, L London: Albion Press. 25-47.
Dibble JC 1998. 'The Composer in the Academy, 1850-1940'. In To Talent Alone: The Royal Irish Academy of Music 1848-1998. Acton, C & Pine, R Dublin: Gill and Macmillan. 400-418.
Dibble JC 1997. 'Musical Nationalism in Ireland in the 20th Century: Complexities and Contradictions'. In Music and Nationalism in 20th-century Great Britain and Finland. Makela T Hamburg: Von Bockel Verlag. 133-144.
Dibble JC 1993. 'Stanford's Service in B flat Op. 10 and the Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge'. In Irish Musical Studies: Music and the Church. White, H & Gillen, G Dublin: Irish Academic Press. 2: 129-148.

Edited sources

Dibble, J.C. 2006. An Anthology of Edwardian Carols. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Dibble JC 2004. A Stanford Anthology. Anthem and Motet Collections from OUP. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Dibble JC 2003. Hubert Parry: Sonatas for Violin and Pianoforte. Music Britannica. London: Stainer & Bell.

Essays in edited volumes

Dibble JC 2006. 'Musical Trends and the Western Church: a Collision of the Ancient and Modern'. In World Christianities c.1815-c.1914. Gilley S & Stanley B Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 8: 121-135. (View publication online)
Dibble, J.C. 2006. Charles Villiers Stanford, Music Education and the Concepts of 'Musica Prattica' and 'Musica Theoretica'. In On Bunker's Hill: Festschrift for Bunker Clark. Everett, W. & Laird, P. Lawrence, Kansas, USA:

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