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The society that these composers found themselves in, was NOT of their making. Harper-Scott is right in his condemnation РІР‚вЂњ the second sentence in its stupidity is on a breathtakingly low level of thought. The classical musical canon must be decolonised.РІР‚СњР”В®ven the first sentence is debatable: England was an empire in the 19th century with colonies, but did not have many important composers to speak of, until Elgar later in the age but what about the lands who produced most of the composers: The German territories, Austria-Hungary? РІР‚СљNineteenth-century musical works were the product of an imperial society. UPDATE: One composer who cannot be decolonised The loss of a subtle and fertile mind like Harper-ScottРІР‚в„ўs represents collateral damage in the woke pandemic. It becomes dogmatic by virtue of the second sentence, which admits of no doubt, no criticism, no challenge. It does not matter that the statement in the first sentence is one that I can assent to. The statement, and the attitude that goes with it, are dogmatic by virtue of form, not content. The classical musical canon must be decolonised. Nineteenth-century musical works were the product of an imperial society. Consider the following statement, which fairly well articulates an increasingly common view in musicology. I would put the problem in this (Kantian) way: I wrongly supposed that universities would be critical places, but they are becoming increasingly dogmatic. In a resignation note titled РІР‚ВWhy I left AcademiaРІР‚в„ў he makes no secret for his love of learning and of academic life. At 43, he is a leader in his field but now he has quit. An authority on Edward Elgar, he has developed unsupected affinities between music analysis and the psychoanalytical theories of Jacques Lacan.

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Harper-Scott is Professor of Music History and Theory at Royal Holloway, University of London, and general editor of the Cambridge University Press series РІР‚ВMusic in ContextРІР‚в„ў.

The academic world has been shocked by the resignation of one of the UKРІР‚в„ўs leading musicologists, apparently in disaffection with current trends for decolonising classical music.

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