Richard Witts
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English musician and musicologist
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Richard Witts's Degrees
- Masters Musicology University of Oxford
- PhD Musicology University of Oxford
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Richard "Dick" Witts is an English musicologist, music historian, and ex leader of 1980s band the Passage. He attended Clee Grammar School for Boys. He studied at the Royal Manchester College of Music and briefly at Manchester University. During this time he was a member of the Hallé Orchestra as a percussionist. During the mid-1970s he wrote for the contemporary classical music magazine Contact.
Richard Witts's Published Works
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Published Works
- Artist unknown: An alternative history of the Arts Council (1998) (37)
- 'Renewal' in Recent British Music: Remastering the Past (2001) (19)
- The Velvet Underground (2006) (11)
- Needle Time: The BBC, the Musicians’ Union, popular music, and the reform of radio in the 1960s. (2013) (5)
- Building up a Band: Music for a Second City (2010) (3)
- Nico: The Life and Lies of an Icon (1993) (3)
- How to make a saint: On interpreting Hildegard of Bingen (1998) (2)
- Records and recordings in post-punk England, 1978–80 (2009) (1)
- I'm waiting for the band: protraction and provocation at rock concerts (2005) (1)
- Composers and the Arts Council. Buying Time (1999) (1)
- Performing matters. How to make a saint. On interpreting Hildegard of Bingen (1998) (1)
- Shopping and Fricker: the origins of the Cheltenham Festival of Modern British Music and the 'Cheltenham Symphony' (2015) (0)
- The Hall In Your Home - the Proms on radio and television 1928 - 1970 (2007) (0)
- Totally Wired - the character(s) of a band (2008) (0)
- Reforming Radio: BBC Radio’s Music Policy 1957-1967 (2020) (0)
- A moment or two before zero and one: 1978-82 (2009) (0)
- [12 subject entries: Nationalism, Smyth, R Strauss, Elgar, Germany & Austria 1880-1920, Britain 1880-1920, Britain 1920-1960, Elgar, Vaughan Williams, Holst, Britten, Tippett] (2000) (0)
- Foreword to 'Three Transnational JazzSingers: a political history of music' (2016) (0)
- Live from Liperpool: lip-synching as a radical act. (2017) (0)
- Vorsprung durch Technik - Kraftwerk and the British fixation with Germany (2011) (0)
- The use of music by Humphrey Searle and Elisabeth Lutyens in horror films of the 1960s (2004) (0)
- "That was Stockhausen. And now for some music." - BBC, music, the future (2008) (0)
- The Passage: Post-Punk Poets (2017) (0)
- Death and Transfiguration (2006) (0)
- Tovey & the Reid Symphony Orchestra (2010) (0)
- News section (2017) (0)
- Review: But Is It Garbage? On Rock And Trash. By Steven L. Hamelman (2006) (0)
- Royal Musical Association Annual Conference 2017: Edge Hill University Panel: The European Song Contest: discussion with Jon Ola Sand, Executive Supervisor of the Eurovision Song Contest (EBU) (2017) (0)
- BBC Radio 3 The Essay: The Music Appreciation Movement (2011) (0)
- But Is It Garbage? On Rock And Trash . By Steven L. Hamelman. Athens & London: The University of Georgia Press, 2004. 272 pp. ISBN 0-82032587-2 (2007) (0)
- 'Clement Crisp is in the House' - Mediated Delineations of the Composer's Role in Dance (2008) (0)
- Manpool, the Musical: Harmony and counterpoint on the Lancashire Plain. (2016) (0)
- How to make a saint (1998) (0)
- Post-Punk Poet: An interview with Dick Witts of The Passage (2017) (0)
- One, Two, Three: BBC Radio's formation of intercluded stations, from the Marriott Report (1957) to the present. (2013) (0)
- Advice to Clever Children: Interview with Karlheinz Stockhausen, Aphex Twin and others (2004) (0)
- Were You There? Popular music at Manchester's Free Trade Hall – 1951 to 1996. By Richard Lysons. Manchester: Empire Publications, 2020, 272 pp. ISBN 978-1-909360-81-5 (2021) (0)
- Linear note to 'Nico 1971' (BBC Session) (2015) (0)
- Thatcherism and the Performing Right Society (2007) (0)
- Bibliography of The Velvet Underground (2006) (0)
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