The job grew, grew, and grew, just as Richard enjoyed the opportunity to say “everything is worth two cents.” Finally published in 2005 by Oxford University Press in Volume 6 as “The History of Oxford in Western Music,” the book is endlessly informative and often controversial, with all 4,272 pages.
No, probably not all. Volume 6 of The Ox, whose subject became known, consists of a chronology, references, and a 146-page small type index. It’s very boring to deal with, but in his mania for getting things right, Richard insisted on compiling it himself.
Obviously, “The Ox” wasn’t the sophisticated textbook Richard envisioned. He, in collaboration with music historian Christopher H. Gibbs, compressed it to create a “university version” of just 1,212 pages. ..
After spending time with Lang, Richard called Joseph Carman, “the second most famous musicologist of the time,” when he called him, who was overseeing the launch of a new journal, 19th-century music. Fell under the wings of. It became what Richard called his “house of learning” for some time. In 1987, he joined Carman as a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, where he was an emeritus professor until his death.
In addition to his academic pursuit, Richard began writing more popular for the short-lived Opus, New Republic, and Times, increasing his reputation as an American public musicologist in his glorious role. I did. Kyoto Prize Having contributed to art and philosophy in Japan in 2017, he describes the Times’ work as follows: He also loved “accessing the largest audience that American classical music writers could dream of.”
