Background
Temperley, Nicholas was born on August 7, 1932 in Beaconsfield, Bucks, England. Son of Arthur Cecil and Joyce Van Oss Temperley.
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Professor Temperley suggests that the Elizabethan metrical psalm tunes were survivors of a mode of popular music that preceded the familiar corpus of ballad tunes. Passed on by oral transmission through several generations of unregulated singing, these once lively tunes changed gradually into very slow, quavering chants. Temperley guides the reader through the complex social, theological and aesthetic movements that played their part in the formation of the late Victorian ideal of the surpliced choir in every chancel, and he makes a fresh assessment of that old bugbear, the Victorian hymn tune. His findings show that the radical liturgical experiments of the last few years have not dislodged the Victorian model for the music of the English parish church. This volume provides an anthology of parish church music of all kinds from the fifteenth century to the twentieth, newly edited from primary sources for study or for performance.
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Nicholas Temperley documents the lives, careers, and music of three British composers who emigrated from England in mid-career and became leaders in the musical life of Federal-era America. William Selby of London and Boston (1738-98), Rayner Taylor of London and Philadelphia (1745-1825), and George K. Jackson of London, New York, and Boston (1757-1822) were among the first trained professional composers to make their homes in America and to pioneer the building of an art-music tradition in the New World akin to the esteemed European "classical" music. Temperley compares their lives, careers, and compositional styles in the two countries and reflects on American musical nationalism and the changing emphasis in American musical historiography.
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Temperley, Nicholas was born on August 7, 1932 in Beaconsfield, Bucks, England. Son of Arthur Cecil and Joyce Van Oss Temperley.
Associate, Royal College Music, 1952. Bachelor, Cambridge University, 1955. Bachelor of Music, Cambridge University, 1956.
Doctor of Philosophy, Cambridge University, 1959.
Postdoctoral fellow University Illinois, Urbana, 1959—1961. Assistant lecturer music Cambridge University, Cambridge, England, 1961—1966. Fellow Clare College, 1961—1966.
Assistant professor music Yale University, New Haven, 1966—1967. Associate professor music University Illinois, 1967—1972, professor music, 1972—1996, chair, musicology division, 1972—1975, 1992—1996. Editorial board member 19th Century Music, Berkeley, California, since 1973.
( Nicholas Temperley documents the lives, careers, and mu...)
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President Baroque Artists of Champaign-Urbana, 2001—2004. Member of North America British Music Studies Association (president since 2004), American Musicol. Society (editor-in-chief 1980-1982), Hymn Society United States and Canada (research chair 1983-1987), Society of America Music, Royal Musical Association (life).
Married Mary Dorothea Sleator, September 17, 1960. Children: Lucy, David, Sylvia.