From this page, one can explore a sampling of digitized sources connected to Imagining Musical Pasts and Lee, Newmarch, and Prime-Stevenson. While most of these sources (with the notable exception of Prime-Stevenson’s self-published sexological writings) were published for general readership and many have been digitized by major libraries and archives, I aim to bring them together here to consider how they might function together as a kind of queer musicological archive. Along with stable external links to each source or group of sources (or related writings when the sources themselves are not so widely available), I have included a full citation with author and publication information, and a brief annotation.
Additional sources related to Lee, Newmarch, and Prime-Stevenson will also be linked and discussed on the blog. While Prime-Stevenson’s last two self-published works on music, Long-Haired Iopas and A Repertory of One Hundred Symphonic Programmes, are not currently digitized, I will be posting excerpts and discussion of these books on the blog throughout October 2023.
Musicology, Biography, Criticism, and Other Research:
Vernon Lee, “The Art of Singing, Past and Present”
Vernon Lee, Studies of the Eighteenth Century in Italy
Vernon Lee, Music and Its Lovers
Rosa Newmarch, Tchaikovsky: His Life and Works
Rosa Newmarch (translator), The Life and Letters of Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky
Rosa Newmarch, Henry J. Wood and Mary Wakefield
Charles Chassé, “La Musique anglaise moderne: Une Interview avec Rosa Newmarch”