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Jerrold Northrop Moore

Disciplines:
biography
music/musicology

Summary

Jerrold Northrop Moore was an American musicologist and biographer who produced the definitive life of Edward Elgar, 'Edward Elgar: A Creative Life' (1984).

Core Contribution

Moore's analysis of the Enigma Variations as a self-portrait through others — each friend-portrait ultimately revealing Elgar's own creative personality — provides the critical framework Tom Shone uses to read Nolan's filmography.

Key Spikes & Highlights

  • Self through others (the Enigma Variations are finally about Elgar's own creative identity, expressed only through the prism of those who knew and shaped it — a model Shone applies to Nolan)

Notable Works & Achievements

Edward Elgar: A Creative Life

Spirit of England: Edward Elgar in His World

Historical Influences

No recorded historical influences.

Intellectual Lineage

Anglo-American musicologyBiographical criticism

Contemporaries & Peers

Michael KennedyRobert Anderson

Minds Influenced

Tom Shone's 'The Nolan Variations' structural concept

Intellectual Posterity

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