This section is very much work in progress. There are a number of references not included, and any which the reader feels must be added is invited to e-mail
Brown, Geoff. 'Mancunian Mantra man,' The times, 2004.11.05 [Archived]
Foulds, John. Music to-day, Ivor Nicholson and Watson, 1934 [Archiving]
Foulds, John. 'A chat on ancient Greek music', The herald of the star, vol. v, part i, Hudson & Kearns, Hatfield, UK, 1916, pp.126-133 [Archived]
Foulds, John. 'Toscanini's first visit to England. A critique and an appreciation,' The musical mirror, July 1931, p.181,194 [Archived]
Foulds, John: 'Incidental music', The musical mirror and fanfare May 1931 [Archived]
Foulds, John. 'Conducting and conductors', The musical digest, Winter
1947 (vol. 1, no.1), p.41-43 [Archived]
Note that this article is only a copy of a section of p.90-94 of Foulds, Music-today
(1934)
Head, Raymond, 'Holst and India (III)', Tempo, new series, no.166, 1988.09, p.35-40
Hughes, Meirion & Robert Stradling. The English Musical Renaissance 1840-1940. Constructing a National Music (2nd edition. Manchester and New York. Manchester University Press, 1993, 2001) pp.197, 237-239, 247 [a great deal of comment, recommended, Archived]
Hull, Arthur Eaglefield. 'Foulds, John Herbert,' ed. Hull, A dictionary of modern music and musicians, J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd., London, Toronto, 1924. p.162 [Archived and in public domain]
MacDonald, Calum. 'John Foulds and the string quartet,' Tempo vol.132, March 1980, p.16-25 [rilm note] [Archived]
MacDonald, Malcolm. John Foulds: his life in music, Rickmansworth: Triad,
1975 [rilm note]
revised the following year for reprinting, and finally expanded in 1989. I have
the 1989 version on order and am told that the works listings were revised,
but more detailed information about condition and origin is sacrificed in favour
of biographical and musical study. MacDonald, Malcolm John Foulds and his
music Kahn & Averill, 1994 is a reference to the paperback version. Scroll
down this page for MacDonald's 'bibliographical note' from p.104 of the 1975
edition
MacDonald, Malcolm. 'John Foulds (1880-1939) - the Cello Sonata and its context' British Music Society journal vol.20, 1998, pp.9-20 (ISSN 0958-5664 ISBN 1 870536 16 9) [Archived]
Pirie, Peter J. The English musical renaissance London. Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1979, p.112 [single dismissive paragraph, Archived]
Reigle, Robert. 'Forgotten gems' mentions Foulds' quarter-tones and his inspirations [Archived]
Scott, Stuart. 'John Foulds (1880-1939),' Composer (England) vol.74, Winter 1981, p.7-12 [rilm note]
Swann, Diana T. Gentlemen v. Players: Alienation and the Esoteric in English Music 1900-1939. Ph.D., Musicology, University of Southampton, 1998 [DDM note]
Tufnell, Lance. 'John Herbert Foulds (1880-1939). An appreciation' British Music Society journal vol.10, 1988 (ISSN 0143-7402 ISBN 1 870536 010) [Archived]
Webb, Sydney, 'Quarter-tones,' letter to The musical times, vol.76, no.1103, 1935.1, pp.60-61 [Archived]
[unknown]. 'Obituary' The musical times, May 1939 (no.1155, vol.80), p.388 [Archived]
Unverified references:
Tempo vol.146 September 1983, p.61-2
'John Foulds' cello conata' in Tempo December 1975
Scott, Stuart. 'John Foulds 1880-1939' Composer (England) vol.72 Spring
or Winter (?) 1981, p.37
Stuart Scott's article 'John Foulds 1880-1939' in Composer (England)
vol.80 Winter 1983, p.34 ?
[A review of MacDonald's book in American Record Guide, vol.53/4, 1990,
p.156]
Foulds, John: 'Educational aspects of music' The English review vol.33
July to December 1921
Sources: The Music Index; RILM; Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology Online; Contact details for purhcase of British Music at Tore's Classical Website
Reproduction of MacDonald (1975), p.104
A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Apart from Foulds's own Music To-Day, the only article of any length on Foulds and his music is to be found on pp.215-221 of that seldom trustworthy but exasperatingly invaluable work of compilation and cantankerousness, Joseph Holbrooke's Contemporary British Composers (Cecil Palmer, 1925).
Foulds himself published two brochures, mainly reprinting press criticism: 'Some Press Opinions on Works by J. H. Foulds' (8pp, n.d. [probably 1915 or 16]) and one on his stage music (8pp, with frontispiece, n.d. [probably mid-1920's]). A copy of each is in B.M. Add. 56482.
The novelist Algernon Blackwood, best known for his stories of mystery and supernatural, wrote about the circumstances of composition of A World Requiem in his The Bright Messenger. Paxton's published a 'Critical Analysis' of the Requiem by W. H. Kerridge in 1923. Many years later, Maud MacCarthy published a pamphlet of extracts from letters received after the first performances, with a linking commentary by herself: 'A World Requiem by John Foulds (The First Festivals of Remembrance, London, 1923-4-5-6)' (8pp, n.d. [apparently c.1956] - copy in B.M. Add. 56482). The only recent account of the World Requiem is the few paragraphs devoted to it by Alec Robertson in his book Requiem (Cassell, 1967).
The Boy and the Brothers, written by Maud MacCarthy as Swami Omananda Puri (Gollancz, 1959), contains some biographical information on Foulds. She was a copious writer: chief among her other publications, though they have no direct connection with Foulds, are Poems by Tandra Devi (Srinagar, 1939, with woodcut illustrations by her son John Patrick Foulds) and Towards the Mysteries (London: Neville Spearman, 1968).
Apart from the above, and the odd mention of Foulds in other people's biographies - for instance in John Casson's memoir of his parents, Lewis and Sybil (Collins, 1972) - there are no other sources apart from Encyclopedia entries. The best of these is the entry in Eaglefield Hull's A Dictionary of Modern Music and Musicians (Dent, 1924).
From Foulds, John: Music-today (1975 edition) p.60
In A dictionary of modern music and musicians (1924), and in the Encyclopædia Britannica (1929), as well as in various fugitive articles, I am accused of using 'third-tones': ('tertia-tones'). These are errors. The use of quarter-tones as above described is my only 'offence' in this branch of music.
References unverified as yet
Confirmation that Foulds is not mentioned in...
Hughes, Meirion, The English renaissance and the press 1850-1914: Watchmen
of music, Ashgate Publishers Ltd., Aldershot, England, 2002. NB. Contents:
Part 1: Writers from papers - the Times, Daily Telegraph, the Athenaeum , the
Musical Times
Part 2: The watched: Sullivan, Parry Elgar. Presumably too early a span to catch
the rise of Foulds' reputation
Bluntinstrument will be investigating these references for future updates.
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