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glasbena kritika – nekoč in danes | music criticism – yesterday and today
fundamentally oppositional directions, which are reflected in the history of
music, complete with all their nuances.
Keywords: Ludwig Bischoff, Eduard Hanslick, August Wilhelm Ambros, De-
christianisation, Modernity
Wolfgang Marx
Music Criticism in Ireland
Music criticism in Ireland has followed the general developments in oth-
er countries, yet with some specific deviations due to local conditions. This
chapter looks at examples from three different periods of its history: the
emergence of Irish music criticism in the mid-nineteenth century, the later
part of the twentieth century as exemplified by the career of Charles Acton,
and the impact of the digital revolution in the twenty-first century.
In its early days, reviews in Irish newspapers could be of very low quality,
often written by journalists without any music-specific knowledge. State-
ments about the pieces performed and the quality of their renditions were
regularly bland and uninformed.
Charles Acton’s term as main concert reviewer of the Irish Times marks
a high point of music criticism in Ireland. The quality of reviews had im-
proved significantly, and Acton’s influence beyond the pages of his newspa-
per attests to the regard he was held in by the Irish musical scene.
The changes in music criticism triggered by the digital revolution are not
specific to Ireland; they occur everywhere in equal measure. An online
journal such as GoldenPlec demonstrates how only unpaid work can keep a
small enterprise going, yet informal music criticism on social media reach-
es across geographical boundaries and can easily involve people from sev-
eral continents.
Keywords: music criticism, Irish music history, digital music criticism, mu-
sic criticism and social media, Charles Acton
Niall O‘Loughlin
Putting Music Criticism to Positive Purpose:
William Glock’s Promotion of Three Composers
After completing a degree at the University of Cambridge, and then stud-
ying piano with Artur Schnabel in Berlin, the Englishman,William Glock
(1908-2000), became a music critic, writing at first for the The Daily Tele-
graph in 1934 and then for ten years until 1946 for The Observer. His col-
umns focus on a very wide and interesting range of topics, but notably the
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fundamentally oppositional directions, which are reflected in the history of
music, complete with all their nuances.
Keywords: Ludwig Bischoff, Eduard Hanslick, August Wilhelm Ambros, De-
christianisation, Modernity
Wolfgang Marx
Music Criticism in Ireland
Music criticism in Ireland has followed the general developments in oth-
er countries, yet with some specific deviations due to local conditions. This
chapter looks at examples from three different periods of its history: the
emergence of Irish music criticism in the mid-nineteenth century, the later
part of the twentieth century as exemplified by the career of Charles Acton,
and the impact of the digital revolution in the twenty-first century.
In its early days, reviews in Irish newspapers could be of very low quality,
often written by journalists without any music-specific knowledge. State-
ments about the pieces performed and the quality of their renditions were
regularly bland and uninformed.
Charles Acton’s term as main concert reviewer of the Irish Times marks
a high point of music criticism in Ireland. The quality of reviews had im-
proved significantly, and Acton’s influence beyond the pages of his newspa-
per attests to the regard he was held in by the Irish musical scene.
The changes in music criticism triggered by the digital revolution are not
specific to Ireland; they occur everywhere in equal measure. An online
journal such as GoldenPlec demonstrates how only unpaid work can keep a
small enterprise going, yet informal music criticism on social media reach-
es across geographical boundaries and can easily involve people from sev-
eral continents.
Keywords: music criticism, Irish music history, digital music criticism, mu-
sic criticism and social media, Charles Acton
Niall O‘Loughlin
Putting Music Criticism to Positive Purpose:
William Glock’s Promotion of Three Composers
After completing a degree at the University of Cambridge, and then stud-
ying piano with Artur Schnabel in Berlin, the Englishman,William Glock
(1908-2000), became a music critic, writing at first for the The Daily Tele-
graph in 1934 and then for ten years until 1946 for The Observer. His col-
umns focus on a very wide and interesting range of topics, but notably the
298
