Tag Archives: Deryck Cooke Archive

Deryck Cooke, and, Hans Keller: a meeting of minds … and archives

Posted on 9 March 2018 by sw508

We here at MusiCB3 are delighted to be able to tell our readers that the project to catalogue the papers of Deryck Cooke is nearing completion with just a couple of boxes of compositions remaining.

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Reverting to Type. . .

Posted on 21 November 2014 by Mark Doran

On reflection, it isn’t really surprising that so many of the items forming the Deryck Cooke Archive are undated and even unidentified. Not only was Cooke’s death in October 1976 sudden and unexpected, but his workload in those last years … Continue reading →

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In Defence of Delius: Introducing the ‘Deryck Cooke Delius Bibliography’

Posted on 6 June 2014 by Mark Doran

For thirty years after WWII, Deryck Cooke (1919-76) was a leading advocate for the music of Bruckner and Mahler – and, in spite of his premature death, lived long enough to see both composers accorded a prominent place in Britain’s … Continue reading →

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Valentine’s Day Special: MusiCB3’s Guide to Dating

Posted on 14 February 2014 by amljp2

Dating can be difficult: everyone knows that. In the mad whirl that is the ‘dating game’, it can be hard to find exactly what you’re looking for, and often you end up making do with a situation that is a … Continue reading →

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Mahler’s Tenth Symphony: An Unexpected Gap – Part II

Posted on 29 November 2013 by musicb3

In the first episode of this musical mystery story, readers were told something of the history of Deryck Cooke’s famous ‘performing version’ of Mahler’s unfinished Tenth Symphony – and learned of the Library’s unhappy discovery that Cooke’s own copy of … Continue reading →

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Mahler’s Tenth Symphony: An Unexpected Gap…

Posted on 30 August 2013 by Mark Doran

Among the most important items in the Deryck Cooke Archive (currently being processed and catalogued) are those relating to Cooke’s engagement with the music of Gustav Mahler (1860-1911). In particular, there are the materials connected with his production of a … Continue reading →

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Collecting Cooke (II)

Posted on 3 May 2013 by Mark Doran

Deryck Cooke’s book The Language of Music (O.U.P., 1959) has become such an icon of post-WW2 British musicology that one can easily forget that there was a time when it was brand-new – and readers up and down the country … Continue reading →

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Collecting Cooke (I)

Posted on 16 November 2012 by Mark Doran

One of the most exciting consequences of placing information about an archival collection on the internet is the way it encourages private individuals with no academic affiliations to come forward and donate related materials that they have in their possession. … Continue reading →

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‘Turning over an old leaf…’

Posted on 22 June 2012 by Mark Doran

One of the more curious features of the material that constitutes the Deryck Cooke Archive is that even though Cooke published hundreds of articles, reviews and other writings over a 30-year period, his papers do not contain a large number … Continue reading →

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Deryck Cooke and his 10th Symphony – recording a success

Posted on 17 February 2012 by Mark Doran

While the materials in the Deryck Cooke Archive are of historical and scholarly interest in their own right, it is of course immensely pleasing when they prove also to be of practical use to a project in the commercial, non-academic … Continue reading →

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