Stephen Banfield

Biographic Data

ID980952
NAMEStephen Banfield
GIVEN NAMESStephen
FAMILY NAMEBanfield
SIGNATUREBANFIELD S
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Bristol
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS61
TOTAL CITATIONS1
WORKS AS AUTHOR61
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1975
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2019
H-INDEX1

  • Music in the Limelight

    Open AccessStephen BanfieldARTICLEJournal of Victorian Culture2019

  • Beyond Boundaries

    Open AccessStephen BanfieldARTICLERenaissance Quarterly2018

    Beyond Boundaries: Rethinking Music Circulation in Early Modern England. Linda Phyllis Austern, Candace Bailey, and Amanda Eubanks Winkler, eds. Music and the Early Modern Imagination. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2017. xvi + 318 pp. $35. - Volume 71 Issue 2

  • Stephen Sondheim and the Reinvention of the American Musical

    Stephen BanfieldARTICLEAmerican Music2017

    Book Review| December 01 2017 Stephen Sondheim and the Reinvention of the American Musical Stephen Sondheim and the Reinvention of the American Musical. By Robert L. McLaughlin. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2016. ISBN 978–1–4968–0855–4. Cloth, pp. xiii, 301. $65.00. Stephen Banfield Stephen Banfield University of Bristol Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Music (2017) 35 (4): 545–548. https://doi.org/…

  • The Penguin Book of English Song

    Stephen BanfieldARTICLEMusic and Letters2017

    What a surprising and delightful book! Surprising, in that no one would have expected Penguin to devote such a doorstopper to what cannot be claimed as more than a connoisseur’s corner within all that might be construed as ‘song’, or even ‘English song’ (more on that later). Delightful, in the richness of its contents, fruit of an expert labour of love by its trusty editor that presents what in literary terms is still thought of as a great tradit…

  • The Shuberts and their Passing Shows

    Stephen BanfieldARTICLEMusic and Letters2017

    Popular theatrical forms not amenable to indefinite re-creation as texted artefacts have had a hard time of it with posterity. I cannot have been the only student of musical theatre dismayed by the rattling off of genres in textbooks on musicals like some believers’ catechism of their prehistory: burlesque, vaudeville, minstrel show, pantomime, circus, cabaret, concert party, and revue. For the most part, and to change the figure of speech, I was…

  • Musicians of Bath and Beyond

    Open AccessStephen Banfield, Nicholas Temperley et al.BOOKMusicians of Bath and Beyond2016

    Musicians of Bath and Beyond: Edward Loder (1809-1865) and his Family illuminates three areas that have recently attracted much interest: the musical profession, music in the British provincesand colonies, and English Romantic opera. The Loder family was pre-eminent in Bath's musical world in the early nineteenth century. John David Loder (1788-1846) led the theatre orchestra there from1807, and later the Philharmonic orchestra and Ancient Concer…

  • On Sondheim

    Stephen BanfieldARTICLEMusic and Letters2016

  • Grainger the Edwardian

    Stephen BanfieldARTICLEMusicology Australia2015

    Percy Grainger's years in London coincided almost exactly with the pre-war era known as Edwardian by extension into the first years of George V's reign. In this article two things are argued: that he was uncommonly, perhaps uniquely responsive to the whole range of forms and genres characteristic of the time and place, especially those of popular music; and that these were the most fecund years of his compositional imagination. In a way, then, he…

  • Constant Lambert

    Stephen BanfieldARTICLEMusic and Letters2015

    Constant Lambert (1905–51) is a gift to biographers and their readers. Supremely witty, he never failed in his ability to conjure up mischievous thoughts. In response to the shocking announcement of his friend Tom Driberg’s marriage—shocking because of Driberg’s unwavering devotion to male rough trade, including, apparently, refuse collectors—he found two adjacent newspaper headlines: MARRIED, and DUSTMEN THREATEN STRIKE. Of his bête noire, Brahm…

  • Coleridge-Taylor, Samuel

    Stephen Banfield, Jeremy Dibble et al.CHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2013

  • Once Again

    Open AccessStephen BanfieldARTICLEJournal of the Royal Musical…2013

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  • Water Music

    Stephen BanfieldARTICLEMusic and Letters2011

    The topic of Ian Bradley’s new book, his latest in a line stretching from The Theology of Sacrifice and The Strange Rebirth of Liberal Britain to The Message of the Musical and The Complete Annotated Gilbert and Sullivan, is to be welcomed for a number of reasons. First among them is the fact that it opposes the perennially centripetal force exerted by capital cities; second is that it deals comparatively with different countries. Social historia…

  • What Do You Think of Stainer's Crucifixion ? Current Victorian Musicology

    Stephen BanfieldARTICLEJournal of Victorian Culture2010Cited by: 1References: 4

    Take two hoary Victorian monuments from the Euston Road. Fifty years ago Sir George Gilbert Scott's St Pancras station (1868–74) was an intellectual laughing-stock and nearly got pulled down. Sir John Stainer's cantata The Crucifixion (first performed in Marylebone parish church, 1887) was in no higher standing – witness the old joke: ‘What do you think of Stainer's Crucifixion?’–‘I think it would be a very good thing’. Today, with its statue of …

  • Weighing Walton

    Stephen Banfield, Stephen Lloyd et al.ARTICLEThe Musical Times2003

  • Stanford, Sir Charles Villiers (opera)

    Stephen BanfieldCHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2002

  • Sondheim, Stephen

    Stephen BanfieldCHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2002

  • Through Thick and Thin

    Stephen Banfield, Andrew Lamb et al.ARTICLEThe Musical Times2002

  • England (i)

    Stephen Banfield, Ian RussellCHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2001

  • Gibbs, Cecil Armstrong

    Stephen Banfield, Ro Hancock-ChildCHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2001

  • Coleridge-Taylor, Samuel

    Stephen Banfield, Jeremy DibbleCHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2001

  • Sondheim, Stephen

    Stephen BanfieldCHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2001

  • Butterworth, George

    Stephen BanfieldCHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2001

  • Lloyd, Charles Harford

    Stephen Banfield, Jeremy DibbleCHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2001

  • Goossens, Eugène (ii)

    Stephen BanfieldCHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2001

  • Goossens, Eugène (i)

    Stephen BanfieldCHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2001