Introduction
My musicology side started of with a broad sense of listening in classical music and also pop music of the 1960s.
My First Musicological Experiences
Music classes at Widford Lodge Preparatory School for Boys in Chelmsford consisted exclusively of music appreciation and writing about what we’d heard in terms of a gut reaction to it. One of the things we head was Dvorak’s New World Symphony Nr.9 which we listened to several times along with Beethoven’s 3rd Eroica.
That was in addition to the Renaissance greats we leaned in Choir like If Ye Love Me by Tallis and Laudate Nomen Domeni by Christopher Tye and even the 19th Century big anthems like Blessed by God the Father by SS Wesley.