HOMAGE TO PERCY SCHOLES
Sir,-I was very glad to see your appreciative reference to Percy Scholes in the August 16 issue. Among his books, however, you make no mention of his two fascinating volumes, The Mirror of Music, being a history of music for 100 years as recorded in the Musical Times -a work comparable in every way with his monumental Dr Burney or the Concise Oxford Dictionary. It may be news to younger readers that this very English musicologist. was obliged to assert and defend his Englishness during the great wave of Kaiserphobia during and after World War I. Anyone then with a name that sounded the least bit German was liable to be convicted of the then greatest crimethat of being German. I remember at that time. reading Scholes’s published advertisements to the effect that he was of English descent, had done war work, and that his family name was pronounced Skoles, or the analogy of "schools’-not Sholes as in German names that started with an Sch...
F. K.
TUCKER
(Gisborne).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 942, 30 August 1957, Page 11
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173HOMAGE TO PERCY SCHOLES New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 942, 30 August 1957, Page 11
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