J. P. E. Harper-Scott

J. P. E. Harper-Scott (born 3 December 1977[1]) is a British musicologist, Professor of Music History and Theory at Royal Holloway, University of London.[2] He is a General Editor of the Cambridge University Press series 'Music in Context'.[3]

Education and employment

John Paul Edward Harper-Scott was born in Easington, County Durham. He was educated at Shotton Hall Comprehensive School, and received an undergraduate degree at Durham University. He subsequently received a Ph.D at the University of Oxford in 2004, for a thesis "Elgar's musical language : analysis, hermeneutics, humanity".[4] He worked at the University of Nottingham and the University of Liverpool before moving to Royal Holloway, University of London.[5]

Scholarship

Known for his work on musical modernism, he has argued that Edward Elgar should be considered 'a subtle and important harbinger of twentieth-century modernism'.[6] He has also established a link between techniques of music analysis and the theories of Jacques Lacan.[7] According to Lawrence Kramer, Harper-Scott's The Quilting Points of Musical Modernism poses a challenge to musicology: he writes that 'the book is a sweeping indictment of musicology and a manifesto for its transformation. Its core thesis is that musicology today is mired in a neoliberal late-Capitalist swamp from which it blindly ignores "our most pressing present concern – to escape the horrors of the present by imagining the transformations of a coming society".'[8] One result of his work is that ideology critique, traditionally associated in musicology with the philosopher Adorno (1903–69), 'has a significant role to play in the future of the discipline'.[9]

Bibliography

As author
  • Edward Elgar, Modernist (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006).
  • Elgar: an Extraordinary Life (London: Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music, 2007).
  • The Quilting Points of Musical Modernism: Revolution, Reaction, and William Walton (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012).
  • Ideology in Britten's Operas (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2018).

As editor
  • Elgar Studies, edited with Julian Rushton (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007).
  • An Introduction to Music Studies, edited with Jim Samson (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009).

References
  1. A Biographical Note, J. P. E. Harper-Scott
  2. "J. P. E. Harper-Scott | Royal Holloway, University of London, Department of Music". rhul.ac.uk.
  3. https://www.cambridge.org/core/series/music-in-context/C13B6AA8685EF7C6B85DF0D3AF954247
  4. WorldCat entry for thesis
  5. https://jpehs.co.uk/a-biographical-note/
  6. Jeremy Begbie, 'Confidence and Anxiety in Elgar's "Dream of Gerontius"', in Music and Theology in Nineteenth-Century Britain, edited by Martin Clarke (Farnham: Ashgate, 2012, p. 202
  7. David Beard and Kenneth Gloag, eds, Musicology: The Key Concepts, 2nd edn. (London and New York: Routledge, 2016), p. 211.
  8. Lawrence Kramer, The Thought of Music (Oakland: University of California Press, 2016), p. 3
  9. Jonathan Hicks, 'Musicology for Art Historians', in The Routledge Companion to Music and Visual Culture, edited by Tim Sheppard and Anne Leonard (New York and London: Routledge, 2014), p. 41

Secondary sources
  • Beard, David, and Gloag, Kenneth, eds, Musicology: The Key Concepts, 2nd edn. (London and New York: Routledge, 2016).
  • Begbie, Jeremy, 'Confidence and Anxiety in Elgar's "Dream of Gerontius"', in Music and Theology in Nineteenth-Century Britain, edited by Martin Clarke (Farnham: Ashgate, 2012), pp. 197–214.
  • Hicks, Jonathan, 'Musicology for Art Historians', in The Routledge Companion to Music and Visual Culture, edited by Tim Sheppard and Anne Leonard (New York and London: Routledge, 2014), pp. 35–42.
  • Kramer, Lawrence, The Thought of Music (Oakland: University of California Press, 2016).
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