Christopher Page
Biographic Data
| ID | 3909980 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christopher Page |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christopher |
| FAMILY NAME | Page |
| SIGNATURE | PAGE C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Augusta University |
| ORCID | 0009-0006-4050-7326 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Picturing the Victorian Revival of the Guitar: The Diary of Caroline Maud Berkeley (1859–1949)
The diary of Caroline Maud Berkeley née Tomlinson, compiled in thirteen sketch books from 1888 to 1901, offers the most extensive social record of guitar-playing to be found in any private document of the nineteenth century. This article, compiled with exclusive access to the original manuscripts, offers the first comprehensive digital record of more than twenty scenes of guitars in use, together with the accompanying diary text, which has never …
‘To Complete the Romance of the Scene’: Three Previously Unknown Manuscripts of Guitar-Accompanied Song from the Nineteenth Century
It no longer seems eccentric to suggest that the guitar merits a place in any balanced account of British musical life during the nineteenth century. This article concerns three previously unknown manuscript guitar books of that period, discovered serendipitously in bookshops or auction catalogues. None has ever figured in an institutional collection or bibliographical record hitherto. After a succinct introductory account, which surveys the book…
New Publication: The Great Vogue for the Guitar in Western Europe, 1800–1840
The Great Vogue for the Guitar in Western Europe, 1800 to 1840, edited by Christopher Page, Paul Sparks and James Westbrook, has just been published. It is available in both hardcover and digital format
A comparison of the Netherlands, Norway and UK familial hypercholesterolemia screening programmes with implications for target setting and the UK’s NHS long term plan
We sought to determine the most efficacious and cost-effective strategy to follow when developing a national screening programme by comparing and contrasting the national screening programmes of Norway, the Netherlands and the UK. Comparing the detection rates and screening profiles between the Netherlands, Norway, the UK and constituent nations (England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales) it is clear that maximising the number of relatives sc…
“An Attractive and Varied Repertoire”: Full-Data List
This document presents the complete set of data analyzed in Christopher Page, “‘An Attractive and Varied Repertoire’: The Guitar Revival of 1860–1900 and Victorian Song,” Soundboard Scholar, no. 8 (2022), https://digitalcommons.du.edu/sbs/vol8/iss1/3
“An Attractive and Varied Repertoire”: The Guitar Revival of 1860–1900 and Victorian Song
Most modern histories of the classical guitar are devoted to solo playing. They therefore forego a different kind of history based upon the guitar used as an accompaniment for a singer. This article explores how that alternative history might be framed with reference to England during the long reign of Queen Victoria (1837–1901). This is the ideal laboratory for such an experiment, not least because the compositions of Catharina Pratten (1824–189…
The Guitar and the Musical Canon (Webinar)
For much of the twentieth century, classical guitarists suffered from an inferiority complex. Could their idiosyncratic instrument ever be taken seriously by the classical establishment? Andrés Segovia devoted his life to “four essential tasks” that would help the guitar sit shoulder to shoulder with the more established instruments of the classical canon: a separation from “mindless folkloric entertainment,” a newly commissioned repertoire of or…
Music and Instruments of the Middle Ages: Essays in Honour of Christopher Page
Are Power Utilities in Tonga and New Zealand Resilient?: Human and Organizational Factors in Disaster Response
Given the increasing frequency and severity of extreme weather events, it is useful to understand the lessons learned from recent natural disasters in Ha’apai, Tonga, and Christchurch, New Zealand. Despite vastly different circumstances, the two experiences demonstrate that power outages can be shortened through access to adequate human resources, immediate and frequent communication with the public, good pre-disaster maintenance, and standardize…
Technology and Teaching: A Conversation among Faculty Regarding the Pros and Cons of Technology
Technology is often touted as the savior of education (Collins & Haverson, 2009). However, is technology the panacea that it is made out to be? This paper is an extended conversation among a group of faculty members at three different universities and their attitudes and beliefs about technology and education. Three professors shared their pro-technology stance and three took a less favorable view. The contents of the conversation were then analy…
Medieval
Chaucer, Geoffrey
Performance practice: Western: Medieval monophony, secular
Performing practice
Performance practice: Western: Polyphony to 1400
Grocheio [Grocheo], Johannes de
Universities
Latin Poetry and Conductus Rhythm in Medieval France
Reading and Reminiscence: Tinctoris on the Beauty of Music
In his Liber de arte contrapuncti Johannes Tinctoris (d. 1511) invokes the beauty of music by Binchois, Dufay, and other composers, referring to the way their compositions smell. How are we to assess the meaning of such an unexpected idea? Questions such as this are easily overlooked in modern studies of the medieval music theorists, for the technical information those writers impart encourages us to read their works in a severely purposeful fash…
A Treatise on Musicians from ? c . 1400: The Tractatulus de differentiis et gradibus cantorum by Arnulf de St Ghislain
The historian John Keegan was one of the first to ask the simple yet searching question: what actually happens in combat? It is well known that English footsoldiers received a charge by French knights at the battle of Agincourt in 1415, but what took place when men and horses collided? Keegan gives his answers in The Face of Battle , and it may be time for musicologists to modulate the sonorous questions that he poses there for their own purposes…
The Summa Musice: A Thirteenth-Century Manual for Singers
The Owl and the Nightingale: Musical Life and Ideas in France, 1100-1300
Music and literature enjoyed a renaissance in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. That period witnessed, among other things, the rise of the troubadours and trouveres, the elaboration of Notre Dame polyphony, and the emergence of Romance. Everywhere a new, secular spirit was coming into conflict with the older, more severe view of man and his music. It was the age of the debate between the owl and the nightingale, so called after a Middle Engli…
Medieval Song
Monche, Dichter und Scholaren
Jerome of Moravia on the Rubeba and Viella
Technology and Teaching: A Conversation among Faculty Regarding the Pros and Cons of Technology
Technology is often touted as the savior of education (Collins & Haverson, 2009). However, is technology the panacea that it is made out to be? This paper is an extended conversation among a group of faculty members at three different universities and their attitudes and beliefs about technology and education. Three professors shared their pro-technology stance and three took a less favorable view. The contents of the conversation were then analy…
Jerome of Moravia on the Rubeba and Viella
Monche, Dichter und Scholaren
Medieval Song
The Owl and the Nightingale: Musical Life and Ideas in France, 1100-1300
Music and literature enjoyed a renaissance in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. That period witnessed, among other things, the rise of the troubadours and trouveres, the elaboration of Notre Dame polyphony, and the emergence of Romance. Everywhere a new, secular spirit was coming into conflict with the older, more severe view of man and his music. It was the age of the debate between the owl and the nightingale, so called after a Middle Engli…
A Treatise on Musicians from ? c . 1400: The Tractatulus de differentiis et gradibus cantorum by Arnulf de St Ghislain
The historian John Keegan was one of the first to ask the simple yet searching question: what actually happens in combat? It is well known that English footsoldiers received a charge by French knights at the battle of Agincourt in 1415, but what took place when men and horses collided? Keegan gives his answers in The Face of Battle , and it may be time for musicologists to modulate the sonorous questions that he poses there for their own purposes…
The Summa Musice: A Thirteenth-Century Manual for Singers
Reading and Reminiscence: Tinctoris on the Beauty of Music
In his Liber de arte contrapuncti Johannes Tinctoris (d. 1511) invokes the beauty of music by Binchois, Dufay, and other composers, referring to the way their compositions smell. How are we to assess the meaning of such an unexpected idea? Questions such as this are easily overlooked in modern studies of the medieval music theorists, for the technical information those writers impart encourages us to read their works in a severely purposeful fash…
Latin Poetry and Conductus Rhythm in Medieval France
Medieval
Chaucer, Geoffrey
Performance practice: Western: Medieval monophony, secular
Performing practice
Performance practice: Western: Polyphony to 1400
Grocheio [Grocheo], Johannes de
Universities
Technology and Teaching: A Conversation among Faculty Regarding the Pros and Cons of Technology
Technology is often touted as the savior of education (Collins & Haverson, 2009). However, is technology the panacea that it is made out to be? This paper is an extended conversation among a group of faculty members at three different universities and their attitudes and beliefs about technology and education. Three professors shared their pro-technology stance and three took a less favorable view. The contents of the conversation were then analy…
Are Power Utilities in Tonga and New Zealand Resilient?: Human and Organizational Factors in Disaster Response
Given the increasing frequency and severity of extreme weather events, it is useful to understand the lessons learned from recent natural disasters in Ha’apai, Tonga, and Christchurch, New Zealand. Despite vastly different circumstances, the two experiences demonstrate that power outages can be shortened through access to adequate human resources, immediate and frequent communication with the public, good pre-disaster maintenance, and standardize…
Music and Instruments of the Middle Ages: Essays in Honour of Christopher Page
“An Attractive and Varied Repertoire”: Full-Data List
This document presents the complete set of data analyzed in Christopher Page, “‘An Attractive and Varied Repertoire’: The Guitar Revival of 1860–1900 and Victorian Song,” Soundboard Scholar, no. 8 (2022), https://digitalcommons.du.edu/sbs/vol8/iss1/3
“An Attractive and Varied Repertoire”: The Guitar Revival of 1860–1900 and Victorian Song
Most modern histories of the classical guitar are devoted to solo playing. They therefore forego a different kind of history based upon the guitar used as an accompaniment for a singer. This article explores how that alternative history might be framed with reference to England during the long reign of Queen Victoria (1837–1901). This is the ideal laboratory for such an experiment, not least because the compositions of Catharina Pratten (1824–189…
The Guitar and the Musical Canon (Webinar)
For much of the twentieth century, classical guitarists suffered from an inferiority complex. Could their idiosyncratic instrument ever be taken seriously by the classical establishment? Andrés Segovia devoted his life to “four essential tasks” that would help the guitar sit shoulder to shoulder with the more established instruments of the classical canon: a separation from “mindless folkloric entertainment,” a newly commissioned repertoire of or…
New Publication: The Great Vogue for the Guitar in Western Europe, 1800–1840
The Great Vogue for the Guitar in Western Europe, 1800 to 1840, edited by Christopher Page, Paul Sparks and James Westbrook, has just been published. It is available in both hardcover and digital format
A comparison of the Netherlands, Norway and UK familial hypercholesterolemia screening programmes with implications for target setting and the UK’s NHS long term plan
We sought to determine the most efficacious and cost-effective strategy to follow when developing a national screening programme by comparing and contrasting the national screening programmes of Norway, the Netherlands and the UK. Comparing the detection rates and screening profiles between the Netherlands, Norway, the UK and constituent nations (England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales) it is clear that maximising the number of relatives sc…
Picturing the Victorian Revival of the Guitar: The Diary of Caroline Maud Berkeley (1859–1949)
The diary of Caroline Maud Berkeley née Tomlinson, compiled in thirteen sketch books from 1888 to 1901, offers the most extensive social record of guitar-playing to be found in any private document of the nineteenth century. This article, compiled with exclusive access to the original manuscripts, offers the first comprehensive digital record of more than twenty scenes of guitars in use, together with the accompanying diary text, which has never …
‘To Complete the Romance of the Scene’: Three Previously Unknown Manuscripts of Guitar-Accompanied Song from the Nineteenth Century
It no longer seems eccentric to suggest that the guitar merits a place in any balanced account of British musical life during the nineteenth century. This article concerns three previously unknown manuscript guitar books of that period, discovered serendipitously in bookshops or auction catalogues. None has ever figured in an institutional collection or bibliographical record hitherto. After a succinct introductory account, which surveys the book…
Art (15 works) · History (11 works) · Literature (7 works) · Medieval Literature and History (6 works) · Musicology and Musical Analysis (6 works) · Visual arts (6 works) · Diverse Musicological Studies (5 works) · Guitar (5 works) · Musical (5 works) · Acoustics (4 works)