Beauty & Truth

 "Beauty is truth, truth beauty, - that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know."
John Keats - May 1819
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  Author Biography

Roger Hansford was born in 1981, and grew up at the New Forest home built in 1923 by his great-grandfather. Members of his extended family live in New Jersey, USA, and Biarritz, France. Both his parents are published writers.

He gained his Bachelor of Arts degree in Music with 1st Class Honours at Southampton University, where he is now working towards an MMus in Musicology. He holds UK qualified teacher status, and for five years has taught Music at secondary schools in Canterbury and Bournemouth, UK.

He plays piano, harpsichord and clarinet, conducts a band, and has spent seven years working as a church organist. He is a keen writer and enjoys all aspects of the arts and arts appreciation.

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'Hark the Glad Sound': Music as Worship in Two New Forest Parishes (Highlights from BA Dissertation, 2003)
Music and Humanism at the North Italian Courts during the Renaissance.
'Imprimeur en musique du Roi': the royal printer Attaingnant, his musical repertory, and court practices in sixteenth-century France.
Stage music in eighteenth-century London: Handel's 'Giulio Cesare' and Gay's 'The Beggar's Opera'.
A lesson from J.S. Bach: 'The Art of Fugue' as a teaching and learning tool.
Fantasy in the piano sonatas of C.P.E. Bach and Beethoven.
Music and gender: how men are exoticised and/or orientalised in opera.
Orientalism in music: is Verdi's 'Aida' an orientalist opera?
Chopin's D Minor Prelude, Op. 28 No. 24 : A Motivic Analysis
Analysis of Debussy's piano prelude 'Le Vent dans la Plaine'.
How the works and teachings of Henry Cowell influenced the compositions of John Cage up to c.1950.
'The Rain Falls on the Leaves of the Banana Tree': the Chinese yangqin in history and performance.
Why multiculturalism is so important to the international music industry.

 

 

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