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Stephen Samuel Stratton
Stephen Samuel Stratton (19 December 1840 – 25 June 1906) was an English music critic, organist and author. Life He was born in London on 19 December 1840. He was a chorister at St. Mary's Church, Ealing and studied music under Charles Lucas (musician), Charles Lucas.Who's who in music, Henry Saxe Wyndham, 1915 He arrived in Birmingham in 1866 and became music critic to the ''Birmingham Post'' in 1877, holding the post until his death. He was also a frequent contributor to the London Musical Press. He was the joint author with James Duff Brown of ''British Musical Biography'' published in 1897. Appointments * Organist of St Mary's Church, Charing Cross Road, St. Mary the Virgin, Soho, London * Organist of St. James' Church, Friern Barnet * Organist of St Bartholomew's Church, Edgbaston, Birmingham 1867 - 1875 * Organist of St. John's Church, Harborne 1875 - 1878 * Organist of the Church of the Saviour, Birmingham 1878 - 1882 Publications * * ''British Musical Biography'', wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Music Critic
''The Oxford Companion to Music'' defines music criticism as "the intellectual activity of formulating judgments on the value and degree of excellence of individual works of music, or whole groups or genres". In this sense, it is a branch of musical aesthetics. With the concurrent expansion of interest in music and information media over the past century, the term has come to acquire the conventional meaning of journalistic reporting on musical performances. Nature of music criticism The musicologist Winton Dean has suggested that "music is probably the most difficult of the arts to criticise." Unlike the plastic or literary arts, the 'language' of music does not specifically relate to human sensory experience – Dean's words, "the word 'love' is common coin in life and literature: the note C has nothing to do with breakfast or railway journeys or marital harmony." Like dramatic art, music is recreated at every performance, and criticism may, therefore, be directed both at the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
