• Hugh John Macdonald (born 31 January 1940 in Newbury, Berkshire) is an English musicologist chiefly known for his work within the music of the 19th century...
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  • activist Hugh MacDonald (journalist) (1817–1860), Scottish journalist, author and poet Hugh Macdonald (musicologist) (born 1940), English musicologist Hugh John...
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  • pictorial and dramatic associations in music. According to the musicologist Hugh Macdonald, the symphonic poem met three 19th-century aesthetic goals: it...
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    Gérard and Hugh J. Macdonald (1983) Hector Berlioz, Correspondance Générale V: March 1855 – August 1859 [nos. 1905–2395], ed. by Hugh J. Macdonald and François...
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    Victor Massé's La Reine Topaze and Gounod's Faust. His biographer Hugh Macdonald writes that although Delibes remained a church organist until 1871 (he...
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    to supplant Lennon as the dominant musical force in the band. Musicologist Ian MacDonald wrote, "from [1965] ... [McCartney] would be in the ascendant...
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  • Alasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdair (c. 1698–1770), legal name Alexander MacDonald, or, in Gaelic Alasdair MacDhòmhnaill, was a Scottish war poet, satirist...
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    passion for Kemble's leading lady, Harriet Smithson – his biographer Hugh Macdonald calls it "emotional derangement" – and obsessively pursued her, without...
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    symphonic and dramatic elements in the same musical composition. Musicologist Hugh Macdonald writes that as Berlioz kept the idea of symphonic construction...
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    Dvořák, Richard Strauss and others. Liszt's intent, according to musicologist Hugh MacDonald, was for these single-movement works "to display the traditional...
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