Profile of Bruce Wood

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Name:

Bruce Wood

Position:

Professor of Music

Email:

mus005@bangor.ac.uk

Location:

School of Music

Phone:

+44 (0) 1248 382186

Background

I was educated at Grimsby Grammar School, and subsequently at Cambridge, where I took the degrees of M.A., Mus.B. and Ph.D., and was an organ pupil of Sir David Willcocks. I taught for several years at the Leys School, Cambridge, and Cranleigh School, before being appointed to a lectureship at Bangor in 1979.

Teaching

Counterpoint and Harmony; Historical Performance Studies; Transcription and Editing; historical modules on Purcell, Bach, Wagner and Elgar; Ensemble Studies; postgraduate teaching and research supervision in historical and editorial musicology.

(Guest lectures: at the universities of Manchester, York, Exeter, Surrey, the Open University – annually since 1994 – and the University of Michigan, USA; public lectures: at the Royal Festival Hall, London; the Birmingham Festival; the Cambridge Festival; the Chester Festival; the Spitalfields Festival; and for the New York Camerata at Boston Conservatoire and at the New York Society for Ethical Culture, USA; radio and television work: some 70 broadcasts on BBC Radio 3, Radio 4, World Service, and BBC2.)

Responsibilities:

Senior Tutor. I am also the musical director of Bangor Baroque Soloists and Bangor Baroque Voices.

Research Interests

Music of the Restoration period, especially the works of Henry Purcell and John Blow; 20th-century English music, especially that of Elgar.

I am Chairman of the Purcell Society.

Main publications

Volumes in collected scholarly editions

John Blow: Anthems I – Seven Anthems with Orchestra (Musica Britannica, Volume 50; London: Stainer & Bell, for the Royal Musical Association, 1984)

Henry Purcell: Three odes on St Cecilia’s Day (Collected Works, Volume 10;
London: Novello, for the Purcell Society, 1990)

Henry Purcell: Birthday odes for Queen Mary, 1689-91 (Collected Works, Volume 11;
London: Novello, for the Purcell Society, 1993)

John Blow: Anthems II – Nine Anthems with Strings (Musica Britannica, Volume 64;
London: Stainer & Bell, for the Musica Britannica Trust of the Royal Musical Association, 1994)

Henry Purcell: Birthday odes for Queen Mary, 1692-94 (Collected Works, Volume 24;
London: Novello, for the Purcell Society, 1998)

Henry Purcell: Royal Welcome Songs, 1680-83 (Collected Works, Volume 15;
London: Novello, for the Purcell Society, 2000)

John Blow: Anthems III – Nine anthems with orchestra (Musica Britannica, Volume 79; London: Stainer & Bell, for the Musica Britannica Trust of the Royal Musical Association, 2002)

Henry Purcell: Royal Welcome Songs, 1684-88 (Collected Works, Volume 18; London: Novello, for the Purcell Society, 2004)

Contributions to volumes of essays

“‘Only Purcell e’re shall equal Blow’”, in Curtis Price (ed.), Purcell Studies
(Cambridge: CUP, 1995), 106-144

“Purcell’s Odes: A Reappraisal”, in Michael Burden (ed.), The Purcell Companion
(London: Faber, 1995), 200-253

“Genius of England: Purcell and his Age”, in David Fraser (ed.), Fairest Isle
(London: BBC Publications, 1995), 39-46

“The First Performance of Purcell’s Funeral Music for Queen Mary”,
in Michael Burden (ed.), Performing the Music of Henry Purcell
(Oxford: OUP, 1996), 61-81

Articles in works of reference

The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (London, 1980): articles on Bartholomew Isaack, John Walter

The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd edition (London, 2000): articles on John Blow, Henry Cooke, Henry Hall, James Hawkins, Pelham Humfrey, William Tucker, Thomas Tudway, John Walter