
Zona de identificação
Código de referência
GB GB1179 AC
Título
Arnold Cooke collection
Data(s)
- 1930-1996 (Produção)
Nível de descrição
Coleção
Dimensão e suporte
12 series
Zona do contexto
Nome do produtor
(1906-2005)
História biográfica
Arnold Cooke was born in Gomersal, Yorkshire on 4 Nov 1906. He studied with Edward Dent at Cambridge (1925–8, BA, MusB; MusD 1948) and with Paul Hindemith at the Berlin Hochschule für Musik (1929–32). He spent a year as music director of the Festival Theatre, Cambridge (following Walter Leigh, an earlier Hindemith pupil), and then taught composition at the Royal Manchester College of Music from 1933 to 1938. After war service in the navy he was appointed professor of harmony, counterpoint and composition at the Trinity College of Music, where he remained from 1947 until his retirement in 1978. It was with Dent’s help and encouragement that Cooke was able to take the step, unusual in the 1930s, of studying abroad, and Hindemith’s anti-serial maxim – ‘Music, as long as it exists, will take its departure from the major triad and return to it’ – was one to which Cooke adhered. His approach is naturally contrapuntal, with a vein of gentle lyricism that frequently comes to the surface. The string quartets on the other hand often show the uncompromising ruggedness of a Bartók. A pianist and cellist himself, Cooke wrote chamber music and vocal music for soloists, for children and for choirs. His woodwind writing is especially grateful and, like Hindemith, he has written successfully for the organ. His song cycles display his affinity with poets from the Elizabethans to D.H. Lawrence, Blake being a particular favourite. His list of commission sources includes the BBC (Proms and Overseas Service), the Royal Philharmonic Society, the Royal Ballet, and the Bath, Cambridge, Cardiff, Cheltenham and City of London festivals, as well as a number of distinguished singers and instrumentalists. He was a founder-member of the Composers’ Guild of Great Britain (1945). Cooke died on 13 August 2005 at Five Oak Green, Kent. (Eric Wetherell, Grove Music online: www.grovemusiconline.com. Accessed 17 Oct 2006)
Entidade detentora
História do arquivo
This collection was donated to the RNCM Archives in June 2006
Fonte imediata de aquisição ou transferência
Zona do conteúdo e estrutura
Âmbito e conteúdo
This collection comprises manuscript music (both published and unpublished), photographs, newscuttings and concert programmes.
Avaliação, selecção e eliminação
Ingressos adicionais
Sistema de organização
Zona de condições de acesso e utilização
Condições de acesso
Open
Condiçoes de reprodução
Idioma do material
Script do material
Notas ao idioma e script
Características físicas e requisitos técnicos
Instrumentos de descrição
Zona de documentação associada
Existência e localização de originais
Existência e localização de cópias
Unidades de descrição relacionadas
Zona das notas
Identificador(es) alternativo(s)
Pontos de acesso
Pontos de acesso - Assuntos
Pontos de acesso - Locais
Pontos de acesso - Nomes
- Cooke, Arnold Atkinson (1906-2005), Composer (Produtor)
Pontos de acesso de género
Zona do controlo da descrição
Identificador da descrição
Identificador da instituição
GB1179
Regras ou convenções utilizadas
Estatuto
Final
Nível de detalhe
Datas de criação, revisão, eliminação
Okanem, 17/10/2006
Línguas e escritas
Script(s)
Fontes
Objeto digital metadados
Nome do ficheiro
AC.12.9__1996_.jpg
Latitude
Longitude
Tipo de suporte
Imagem
Mime-type
image/jpeg
Tamanho do ficheiro
1.3 MiB
Transferido
16 de julho de 2018 02:04