Charles Sanford Terry (historian)
Charles Sanford Terry (24 October 1864, in
J. S. Bach
.
Career
A man who has not got a hobby to jostle with his profession is a man to be pitied, and I take off my hat to St. Paul's for the many years of happiness in a pursuit of which my school-days there laid the foundation.
Charles Sanford Terry[5]
Terry was the eldest son of Charles Terry, a physician, and Ellen Octavia Prichard. After attending
University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne), the University of Aberdeen and the University of Cambridge. In 1901 he married Edith Mary Allfrey of Newport Pagnell, daughter of Francis Allfrey, a brewer; the marriage was childless. He was appointed Burnett-Fletcher Professor of History and Archaeology at the University of Aberdeen from 1903 until his retirement in 1930. He served as president of the Association of Scottish History. Terry was also known as a composer and amateur musician. In 1898 he became conductor of the Aberdeen University Choral and Orchestral Society, with roughly 150 singers and 70 instrumentalists; and in 1909 he founded the Aberdeen and North East of Scotland Music Festival
.
Terry had a close professional and personal association with
Sir John Marnoch[8]
Works
Terry published extensively on several aspects of Scottish history, and wrote a Short History of Europe (1806–1915). He published many books on the life and works of
J. S. Bach
between 1915 and 1932 and became known as an authority on Bach; his works have become classics in Bach scholarship.
Honours
- Honorary Doctor of Music, University of Oxford, University of Edinburgh
- University of Durham, University of Glasgow and University of Aberdeen
- Honorary Ph.D., J. S. Bach
- Honorary fellow of Clare College, Cambridge, 1929
- Honorary fellow of the Royal College of Music
Selected bibliography
- The Life and Campaigns of Alexander Leslie, First Earl of Leven. Longmans, Green and Co. (1899)
- The Rising of 1745: with a bibliography of Jacobite history 1689-1788, David Nutt (1903)
- John Graham of Claverhouse, Viscount of Dundee. Archibald Constable and company (1905)
- A Short History of Europe, From the Fall of the Roman Empire to the Fall of the Eastern Empire (1911)
- Bach's Chorals, Vol.I Archived 31 March 2010 at the Wayback Machine (1915), Vol.II Archived 26 June 2010 at the Wayback Machine (1917), Vol.III Archived 26 June 2010 at the Wayback Machine (1921)
- Johann Sebastian Bach, Harcourt, Brace and Howe, New York (1920)
- Bach: the Cantatas and Oratorios, Oxford University Press (1925)
- Bach: the Mass in B Minor, Oxford University Press (1926)
- Bach Cantata Texts, Sacred and Secular With a Reconstruction of the Leipzig Liturgy of His Period, Constable (1926)
- Bach: A Biography, Oxford University Press (1928)
- The Four-Part Chorales of J.S. Bach, Oxford University Press (1929)
- John Christian Bach, Oxford University Press (1929)
- The Music of Bach: an introduction, Dover Publications, Inc. (1928 & 1933)
- The pianist's book of Bach chorals: 100 chorals harmonised by J.S. Bach, chosen from the collection of Terry by A.B. Ashby, Oxford University Press (1937)
Notes
- Cults, a suburb of Aberdeen.
- ^ Encyclopedia Americana, vol. 26, Americana Corp., 1966, p. 449
- ^ Weber 2004, p. 51
- ^ Blom 2008, p. 600
- ^ "Charles Sanford Terry", The Musical Times: 370, 1913
- ^ "Terry, Charles Sanford (TRY883CS)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ^ Adams 2007, pp. 173–178
- ISBN 9781400832101
References
- Blom, Eric (2008), Dictionary of Music, Read Books, p. 600, ISBN 978-1-4437-3452-3
- Hill, E. B. (1940), "Charles Sanford Terry (1864-1936)", Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 74 (6): 159–160, JSTOR 20023386
- Terry, Charles Sanford (1921), Bach's Chorals, Volume III (PDF), archived from the original (PDF) on 26 June 2010, retrieved 26 December 2009
- Adams, Byron (2007), Edward Elgar and his world, Princeton University Press, ISBN 978-0-691-13446-8
- Weber, Édith (2004), Itinéraires du cantus firmus, vol. 6, Presses Paris Sorbonne, p. 51, ISBN 2-84050-330-1
- Hinrichsen, Max (1944), Musical year book, vol. 1, Hinrichsen Edition, pp. 241–242
- "Charles Sanford Terry", JSTOR 907666
- A. M. Mackenzie (2004), "Charles Sanford Terry", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press
External links
- Official record of North East of Scotland Music Festival
- Elgar's Aberdeen connection, Leopard magazine, August 2007
- Works by Charles Sanford Terry at Project Gutenberg
- Works by Charles Sanford Terry at Faded Page (Canada)
- Works by or about Charles Sanford Terry at Internet Archive
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