Jim Samson
British musician and musicologist
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Thomas James Samson, FBA , commonly known as Jim Samson, is a musicologist, music critic and retired academic. Educated at Queen's University Belfast and University College, Cardiff , he was appointed to a research fellowship at the University of Leicester in 1972. He moved to the University of Exeter in 1973 as a lecturer; promotions followed, to reader in 1987 and Professor of Musicology in 1992. In 1994, he was appointed Stanley Hugh Badock Professor of Music at the University of Bristol, and was then Professor of Music at Royal Holloway, University of London, between 2002 and 2011.
Jim Samson's Published Works
Published Works
- The Late Romantic Era (1991) (100)
- The Cambridge History of Nineteenth-Century Music (1992) (68)
- Music in transition : a study of tonal expansion and atonality, 1900-1920 (1978) (51)
- Virtuosity and the Musical Work: The Transcendental Studies of Liszt (2003) (36)
- The Cambridge Companion to Chopin (1995) (33)
- The music of Chopin (1985) (33)
- Form and design (1992) (31)
- Music in the Balkans (2013) (29)
- Music and displacement: Diasporas, mobilities and dislocations in Europe and beyond (2010) (26)
- The Music of Szymanowski (1980) (22)
- Chopin: The Four Ballades (1992) (18)
- The Practice of Early-Nineteenth-Century Pianism (2000) (17)
- Chopin and Genre (1989) (17)
- Small ‘forms’: in defence of the prelude (1992) (14)
- Piano music and the public concert, 1800–1850 (1992) (10)
- Music and social class (2001) (10)
- The construction of Beethoven (2001) (9)
- The musical work and nineteenth-century history (2001) (8)
- Music And the rise of aesthetics (2001) (7)
- The great composer (2001) (7)
- The twenty-seven etudes and their antecedents (1992) (6)
- Chopin Studies 2 (1995) (6)
- Virtuosity and the Musical Work: Making and remaking (2003) (6)
- The Late romantic era : from the mid-19th century to World War I (1991) (6)
- Chopin's influence on the fin de siècle and beyond (1992) (6)
- Tonal architecture in the early music (1992) (6)
- The nocturne: development of a new style (1992) (5)
- The estimation of live fish size from archaeological cranial bones of New Zealand Labridae (1997) (5)
- Chopin in performance (1992) (5)
- An Introduction to Music Studies: Frontmatter (2009) (5)
- Nineteenth-Century Music: Selected Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference (2002) (5)
- Isaak-Ignaz Moscheles: The Life of the Composer and His Encounters with Beethoven, Liszt, Chopin, and Mendelssohn@@@Chopin Studies (1991) (5)
- Beyond the dance (1992) (4)
- Progress, modernity and the concept of an avant-garde (2001) (4)
- Chopin reception in nineteenth-century Poland (1992) (4)
- Liszt and the Birth of Modern Europe: Music as a Mirror of Religious, Political, Cultural, and Aesthetic Transformations. Proceedings of the International Liszt Conference held at the Villa Serbelloni, Bellagio (Como) 14-18 December 1998 (review) (2004) (4)
- Chopin, past and present (2001) (4)
- The Virtuoso Liszt. By Dana Gooley. pp. xvi + 280. New Perspectives in Music History and Criticism. (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2004. £45. ISBN 0-521-83443-0.) (2005) (3)
- Words and music in Germany and France (2001) (3)
- Styles and languages around the turn of the century (2001) (3)
- Myth and reality: a biographical introduction (1992) (3)
- Extended forms: the ballades, scherzos and fantasies (1992) (2)
- Placing genius : the case of George Enescu (2006) (2)
- Chamber music and piano (2001) (2)
- Szymanowski-An Interior Landscape (1979) (2)
- Borders and bridges: Preliminary thoughts on Balkan music (2005) (2)
- Victorian attitudes to Chopin (1992) (2)
- The Music of Chopin@@@The Music of Brahms (1989) (2)
- Opera and music drama (2001) (2)
- "Chopin: The Four Ballades", Jim Samson [w:] "Cambridge Music Handbook", red. Julian Rushton, Cambridge 1992 : [recenzja] / Agnieszka Chwiłek, Paweł Gancarczyk. (1994) (1)
- "The Cambridge companion to Chopin", red. Jim Samson, Cambridge 1992 : [recenzja] / Marcin Majchrowski. (1994) (1)
- Szymanowski and Polish Nationalism (1990) (1)
- Schoenberg's ‘Atonal’ Music (1974) (1)
- Aspects of the Sign Problem (1993) (1)
- Music in Cyprus (2015) (1)
- Metapoesis in Trecento Song: 'Divisio' at the Intersection of Love, Poetic Form, and Music (2018) (1)
- Serbian Music: Yugoslav Contexts (2014) (1)
- Eastern Europe, 1918–45 (1993) (1)
- The complete Chopin (2003) (1)
- Music and Society (1991) (1)
- Black Sea Sketches (2021) (1)
- After Chopin: Essays in Polish Music. Ed. Maja Trochimczyk. Polish Music History Series, no. 6. Los Angeles: Polish Music Center, 2000. x, 333 pp. Appendixes. Notes. Index. Photographs. Figures. Tables. $30.00, paper. (2002) (1)
- Ballads without words (1992) (1)
- Carol Silverman, Romani Routes: Cultural Politics and Balkan Music in Diaspora (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012) (1969) (0)
- The Practice of Pianism: Virtuosity and Oral History (2020) (0)
- The Tamburitza Tradition: From the Balkans to the American Midwest. By Richard March. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2013. xvii, 305pp. Bibliography. Glossary. Index. Illustrations. Photographs. $34.95, paper. (2014) (0)
- "The music of Chopin", Jim Samson, Paul Griffiths, Londyn-Boston-Henley 1985 : [recenzja] / Maciej Gołąb. (1986) (0)
- The Practice of Pianism: (2020) (0)
- Performing Democracy: Bulgarian Music and Musicians in Transition. By Donna A. Buchanan. (2009) (0)
- 14 Serbo-Croat (2013) (0)
- 7 Eastern Recessions (2013) (0)
- 21 All Change (2013) (0)
- Across the sea (2021) (0)
- Giants, Heroes and Circassians (2021) (0)
- Chopin: The Four Ballades: Genre (1992) (0)
- An Introduction to Music Studies: Features of this book: a guide (2009) (0)
- This Century's Music (1977) (0)
- Nations and nationalism (2001) (0)
- Forms and reforms (2003) (0)
- CHOPIN AND THE TRADITIONS OF PEDAGOGY (2009) (0)
- Facts and Fictions (1997) (0)
- An Unknown Chopin Autograph (1986) (0)
- 'Music & Letters' Awards (2005) (0)
- Virtuosity and the Musical Work: Introduction (2003) (0)
- List of Chopin's work (1992) (0)
- Chopin: The Four Ballades: Preface (1992) (0)
- 16 The Curtain Descends (2013) (0)
- Music in the Culture of Polish Galicia, 1772-1914. By Jolanta T. Pekacz. Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2000. x, 252 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Illustrations. Figures. $85.00, hard bound. (2004) (0)
- Suggestion and symbol (2003) (0)
- Music and the Armenian Diaspora: Searching for Home in Exile by Sylvia Angelique Alajaji (review) (2016) (0)
- Performing Democracy: Bulgarian Music and Musicians in Transition (review) (2009) (0)
- RECENT POLISH MUSIC (1981) (0)
- 18 Another Try (2013) (0)
- An Introduction to Music Studies: Preface (2009) (0)
- INTRODUCTION: THEORY AND REPERTORY (2016) (0)
- 20 One Got Away (2013) (0)
- 6 A Makam-Echos Culture (2013) (0)
- Musicians' Migratory Patterns: The Adriatic Coasts ed. by Franco Sciannameo (review) (2018) (0)
- First Performances (1981) (0)
- New Paths: Aspects of Music Theory and Aesthetics in the Age of Romanticism (2009) (0)
- 17 Diverging Paths (2013) (0)
- Placing composers (2021) (0)
- The Story of Koula: music and nationhood in Greece (2014) (0)
- 11 Mixing It (2013) (0)
- "Chopin studies", red. Jim Samson, Cambridge-Nowy Jork-New Rochelle-Melbourne-Sydney 1988 : [recenzja] / Maciej Gołąb. (1990) (0)
- The Virtuoso Liszt (review) (2005) (0)
- 19 Birthright of the People (2013) (0)
- Not only Greeks (2021) (0)
- Chopin: The Four Ballades: Select bibliography (1992) (0)
- Virtuosity and the Musical Work: Mazeppa times 7 (2003) (0)
- Chopin, Pianos and East Asian Modernity (2023) (0)
- Chopin: The Four Ballades: Genesis and reception (1992) (0)
- East Central Europe: the Struggle for National Identity (1991) (0)
- Transcending the Material (2005) (0)
- An Introduction to Music Studies: Music history (2009) (0)
- Afterword (2019) (0)
- 23 Balkan Beat (2013) (0)
- Ecology by numbers (2003) (0)
- 12 Join the Club (2013) (0)
- 24 On Boundaries and Events (2013) (0)
- [Entoptical functional testing]. (1970) (0)
- Of maps and materials (2003) (0)
- Composing the performance (2003) (0)
- Virtuosity and the Musical Work: Bibliography (2003) (0)
- Chopin: The Four Ballades: Background (1992) (0)
- 15 Placing Genius (2013) (0)
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