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Shaw and Music

 

 

Baake, Friedrich. ‘George Bernard Shaw als Musikkritiker.’ Archiv für Musikwissenschaft 10 1953 233-52

 

Barber, George S. ‘Shaw’s contributions to music criticism.’ PMLA 72 1957 1005-17

 

Blissett, William. ‘Bernard Shaw: imperfect Wagnerite.’ University of Toronto Quarterly 27 1958 185-99

 

Breuer, Hans P. ‘Form and feeling: George Bernard Shaw as music critic.’ Journal of Irish Literature 11 iii 1982 74-102

 

Cardus, Neville. Talking of music. London: Collins, 1957, 283-88 (Shaw as music critic)

 

Cheshire, David F. ‘Bernard Shaw and music hall.’ Theatre Quarterly 10 1980 19-22 (largely excerpts from reviews)

 

Clarke, Bruce C. ‘George Bernard Shaw: Mozart and his musical self-respect.’ Mozart Society of America Newsletter 8 i 2005 4-7

 

Clive, John. ‘The versatile Signor di Bassetto: an essay in crime prevention.’ Daedalus 111 iii 1982 51-63 (essay-review of Shaw’s music: the complete musical criticism in three volumes)

 

Corballis, Richard. ‘Why the devil gets all the good tunes: Shaw, Wagner, Mozart, Gounod, Bizet, Boito, and Stanford.’ SHAW 12 1992 165-80

 

Coskren, Robert. ‘Siegfried elements in the plays of Bernard Shaw.’ SHAW 2 1982 27-46

 

-----. ‘Wagner and Shaw: Rheingold motifs in Major Barbara.’ Comparative Drama 14 1980 70-73

 

Crompton, Louis. ‘Editor’s introduction.’ Pp xi-xxvii in Shaw. The great composers: reviews and bombardments by Bernard Shaw. Berkeley: Univ. of California Pr., 1978

 

Cumbow, Robert. ‘The ring is a fraud: self, totem, and myth in Der Ring des Nibelungen.’ Opera Quarterly 1 i 1983 107-25 (part questions Shaw’s interpretations)

Dent, Edward J. ‘Corno di Bassetto.’ Pp 122-30 in Winsten

 

Dombrowski, Eileen. ‘Shaw’s Mozartian Ana: Don Giovanni and Man and Superman.’ Shavian 5 1975 15-21

 

Everist, Mark. ‘Speaking with the supernatural: E. T. A. Hoffmann, George Bernard Shaw and “die aller Opern.”’ Mozart-Jahrbuch des Zentralinstitutes für Mozartforschung der Internationalen Stiftung Mozarteum Salzburg 2002 115-35

 

Ganz, Arthur. ‘Don Giovanni Shavianized: Man and Superman as Mozartean commentary.’ Opera Quarterly 13 i 1996 21-28

 

-----. ‘The playwright as perfect Wagnerite: motifs from the music dramas in the theatre of Bernard Shaw.’ Comparative Drama 13 1979 187-209; repr. on pp 101-23 in Clifford Davidson et al., eds. Drama in the twentieth century: comparative and critical essays. NY: AMS Pr., 1984

 

Gates, Eugene. ‘The music criticism and aesthetics of George Bernard Shaw.’ Journal of Aesthetic Education 35 2001 63-71

 

Goodman, Phyllis M. ‘Beethoven as the prototype of Owen Jack.’ Shaw Review 7 1965 12-24 (in the novel Love Among the Artists)

 

Griffith, Gareth. Socialism and superior brains: the political thought of Bernard Shaw. London: Routledge, 1993, 56-63: ‘The Perfect Wagnerite and beyond’

 

Haywood, Charles. ‘George Bernard Shaw on incidental music in the Shakespearean theatre.’ Jahrbuch der Deutschen Shakespeare-Gesellschaft Ost 105 1969 168-82

 

-----. ‘George Bernard Shaw on Shakespearean music and the actor.’ Shakespeare Quarterly 20 1969 417-26

 

Henson, Janice. ‘Bernard Shaw’s contribution to the Wagner controversy in England.’ Shaw Review 4 i 1961 21-26

 

Holt, Charles L. ‘Music and the young Shaw.’ Shavian 4 iii 1966 9-13

 

-----. ‘Mozart, Shaw and Man and Superman.’ Shaw Review 9 1966 102-16

 

Huckvale, David. ‘Music and the man: Bernard Shaw and the music collector at Shaw’s Corner.’ SHAW 10 1990 96-112

 

Irvine, William. The universe of G.B.S. NY: McGraw-Hill, 1949, 125-36: ‘The music critic’ (from ‘G. B. Shaw’s musical criticism.’ Musical Quarterly 32 1946 319-32)

 

Jasi½ski, Roman. ‘George Bernard Shaw o Paderewskim.’ Ruch Muzyczny 2 Jan 1978 14-18

 

King, Carlyle. ‘GBS and music, with a moral for Canadians.’ Queen’s Quarterly 63 1956 165-78

 

Laurence, Dan H. ‘Introduction.’ Pp 7-22 in Shaw. Shaw’s music: the complete musical criticism in three volumes, I. Ed. Laurence. London: Max Reinhardt / The Bodley Head, 1981; same as ‘Introduction.’ Pp xi-xxii in Shaw. How to become a musical critic. NY: Hill & Wang, 1961

 

Ledeen, Lydia. ‘Are Shaw’s writings on music still relevant?’ Shavian 10 ii 2006 5-7

 

Lee, Josephine. ‘The skilled voluptuary: Shaw as music critic.’ SHAW 12 1992 147-64

 

Levinson, George. ‘Some animadversions on Shaw as music critic.’ Independent Shavian 22 1984 8-10; Jacques Barzun. ‘Another look at Shaw as music critic.’ Independent Shavian 22 1984 29-30; Levinson. ‘Again, Shaw’s musical invective.’ Independent Shavian 23 1985 11-12

 

Liébert, Georges. ‘Avant-propos.’ Pp vii-xxxi in Shaw. Écrits sur la musique. Paris: Laffont, 1994

 

Lipman, Samuel. ‘Pshaw!’ American Scholar 51 1982 513-20 (Shaw as music critic)

 

Loewenstein, F. E. ‘Bernard Shaw, music critic.’ Hinrichsen’s Musical Yearbook 6 1949 147-52

 

Lowenthal, Jerome. ‘Beethoven, Shaw, and the literary sensibility.’ Piano Quarterly no. 82 1973 14-15

 

Mackerness, E. D. ‘Corno Inglese: notes on the texture of George Bernard Shaw’s musical criticism.’ Pp 147-57 in G. R. Hibberd, ed. Renaissance and modern essays. NY: Barnes & Noble, 1966

 

-----. ‘George Bernard Shaw and the English musical renaissance.’ Durham University Journal 79 1987 303-10

 

Martin, Stoddard. Wagner to ‘The Waste Land’: a study of the relationship of Wagner to English literature. London: Macmillan, 1982, 79-98

 

Mehus, Donald V. ‘George Bernard Shaw als Muziekcriticus.’ Vlaamse Gids 42 1958 653-56

 

Neel, Boyd. ‘Shaw and music.’ Pp 53-61 in Rosenblood

 

Nickson, Richard. ‘The perfect Wagnerite? Wagner and his Shavian advocate.’ Independent Shavian 28 1990 51-61

 

Onnen, F. ‘George Bernard Shaw als Muziekcriticus.’ Mens en Melodie 5 1950 392-95

 

Osborne, George. ‘Unpremeditated art: George Osborne on George Bernard Shaw, the music critic.’ Opera 57 2006 900-906

 

Osborne, Linda P. ‘Shaw and Mozart: dramaturgy and the Life Force.’ Journal of Irish Literature 12 i 1983 96-110

 

O’Sullivan, Thomas. ‘The perfect Wagnerite: Shaw’s reading of the Ring.’ English Literature in Transition 30 1987 39-47

 

Parakilas, J. P. ‘Music for the people: George Bernard Shaw’s musical socialism.’ Musical Newsletter 7 i 1977 21-28

 

Parmenter, Ross. ‘Shaw and Mozart.’ Shaw Bulletin no. 3 1952 3-5; repr. in Independent Shavian 27 1989 11-15

 

Pharand, Michel W. Bernard Shaw and the French. Gainesville: UP of Florida, 2000, 24-45: ‘Shaw in the concert halls: “I purposely vulgarized musical criticism”’ (his critiques of French composers and performers)

 

Pleasants, Henry. ‘George Bernard Shaw: critic of music.’ HiFi / Stereo Review 20 March 1968 58-63

 

Pollak, Paulina S. ‘Master to the masters: Mozart’s influence on Bernard Shaw’s Don Juan in Hell.’ SHAW 8 1988 39-68 (structural parallels)

 

Pulido, E. ‘Bernard Shaw (Corno di Bassetto), critico musical.’ Heterofonia 44 1975 9-12, 47 1976 13-18, 48 1976 8-13

 

Rather, J. L. The dream of self-destruction: Wagner’s Ring and the modern world. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 1979, 149-67

 

Redlin, Gebhard. Die Welt der Musik des Bernard Shaw: ein aussergewohnlicher Musikkritiker und seine Zeit. Frankfurt: Lang, 2001. 578 pp

 

Resch, Rita M. ‘George Bernard Shaw’s criticism of singers and singing.’ NATS Bulletin 31 ii 1974 2-10 (National Association of Teachers of Singing bulletin)

 

Sava, Iosif. Bucuriile muzicii. Bucharest: Editura Muzical|, 1985, 213-24: ‘George Bernard Shaw Õi publicistica pe teme muzicale’

 

Schmidgall, Gary. ‘Arcibravo, GBS!’ Opera Quarterly 14 iv 1998 5-15 (as opera critic)

 

Sessa, Anne D. Richard Wagner and the English. Rutherford, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 1979, 50-64: ‘Bernard Shaw, Wagnerite’ (traces references to Wagner in the novels and plays)

 

Shenfield, Margaret. ‘Shaw as a music critic.’ Music and Letters 49 1958 378-84

 

Stuckenschmidt, H. H. ‘Shaw und Wagner.’ Stimmen: Monatsblätter für Musik 1 1947-48 107-11

 

Taylor, Ronald. ‘Shaw and Elgar.’ Pp 214-20 in Raymond Monk, ed. Elgar Studies. Aldershot: Scolar Pr., 1990

 

Thomson, John M. ‘The recorder revival, I: The friendship of Bernard Shaw and Arnold Dolmetsch.’ Pp 137-51 in Thomson & Anthony Rowland-Jones, eds. The Cambridge companion to the recorder. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1995

 

Turco, Alfred. ‘Nobody’s perfect: George Bernard Shaw as Wagnerite.’ Leitmotive: The Journal of the Wagner Society of Northern California 19 ii 2005 2-6, 12 (part two pending)

 

Vesonder, Timothy G. ‘Shaw’s Caesar and the mythic hero.’ Shaw Review 21 1978 72-79 (Wagner’s Siegfried)

 

Walz, Matthias. ‘Er hatte nur einen Abgott—Mozart: der Musikkritiker Georg Bernard Shaw.’ Neue Zeitschrift für Musik 146 xii 1985 17-20

 

Weimer, Michael. ‘The well-tempered performance: Shaw as a critic of music.’ Yale / Theatre 4 iv 1973 15-19

 

Weintraub, Stanley. ‘Shaw’s musician: Edward Elgar.’ SHAW 22 2002 1-18 (interactions)

 

Weisert, John J. ‘A Wagner pilgrim: GBS in Germany.’ SHAW 5 1985 5-11

 

West, E. J. ‘G.B.S., music, and Shakespearean blank verse.’ Pp 344-56 in Elizabethan studies and other essays in honor of George F. Reynolds. Boulder: Univ. of Colorado Studies, 1945

 

-----. ‘Disciple and master: Shaw and Mozart.’ Shavian 2 iii 1961 16-23

 

Wiedmann, Lutz. Die Dramaturgie George Bernard Shaws und ihre Wurzeln in Musik, Philosophie, und in seiner Auseinandersetzung mit dem englischen Theater der Jahrhundertwende. Bern: Lang, 1993. 165 pp

 

Williams, Stephen. ‘Bernard Shaw as music critic.’ Musical Times no. 1295 1951 9-13

Williamson, Audrey. ‘Wagner and Shaw: a dramatic comparison.’ Music Review 19 1958 186-91

 

Wisenthal, J. L. ‘“Please remember, this is Italian opera”: Shaw’s plays as music-drama.’ Pp 283-308 in Innes

 

 

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