(Charles) Stewart Macpherson (29 March 1865 – 27 March 1941) was an English musician of Scottish descent. He was born in

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, and studied at the

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. He was a student of the composer

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. In 1887, he joined the RAM staff, and taught

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and

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. He founded the Music Teachers' Association in 1908, and was its chairman until 1923. From 1925 to 1927, he was dean of the Faculty of Music in the

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. His notable students included violinist John Waterhouse and violinist and composer

Susan Spain-Dunk Susan Spain-Dunk (22 February 1880 Folkestone, England – 1 January 1962 London) was an English composer, conductor and violinist/violist. Life and career Susan was the third of four children (Ethel K Dunk b. 1876; John De Lanoy Dunk b. 1878; S ...

. Macpherson was primarily a

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, and is remembered for such textbooks as ''Practical Harmony'' (1894), ''Form in Music'' (1908), and ''Melody and Harmony'' (1920 Also a composer, pianist and choral and orchestral conductor in his earlier years, Macpherson wrote a Symphony in C (1880), a Mass in D (1898), and a ''Concerto alla fantasia'' for violin and orchestra (1904). He was appointed conductor of the Westminster Orchestral Society in 1885, a post he remained in for several years. He died in London on 27 March 1941.

Writings

*''Practical Harmony'' (1894) *''Practical Counterpoint'' (1900) *''The Rudiments of Music'' (1903) *''Questions and Exercises upon the Rudiments of Music'' (1907) *''Form in Music'' (1908) *''Music and its Appreciation'' (1910) *''The Appreciative Aspects of Music-Study'' (1910) *''Studies in Phrasing and Form'' (1911) *''Modern Ideas in the Teaching of Harmony'' (1912) *''Aural Culture based upon Musical Appreciation'' (1912–21, with E. Read) *''Ear-Training and the Teaching of the Minor Mode'' (1913) *''The Musical Education of the Child'' (1915) *''Melody and Harmony'' (1920) *''The Appreciation Class'' (1923) *''Studies in the Art of Counterpoint'' (1928) *''A Simple Introduction to the Principles of Tonality'' (1929) *''A Commentary on … the Forty-Eight Preludes and Fugues (Das Wohltemperirte Klavier) of Johann Sebastian Bach'' (1934–7) *''Cameos of Musical History'' (1937)

References

1865 births 1941 deaths British music educators English composers Alumni of the Royal Academy of Music Musicians from Liverpool {{UK-composer-stub