John Brande Trend

John Brande Trend (born December 17, 1887 in Southampton , † April 20, 1958 in Cambridge ) was a British Romance scholar , Hispanist and musicologist.

life and work

Trend studied at Christ's College at the University of Cambridge . He served in the First World War. Then he traveled to Spain, which he had grown to love. Manuel de Falla and Garcia Lorca were among his friends.

Trend held the first chair in Spanish at the University of Cambridge from 1933 to 1953. His Hispanic interests included language, literature, music, history, and geography, and extended to Portugal and Latin America.

Works (selection)

author

Essays

• Catalog of the music in the Biblioteca Medinaceli, Madrid . In: Revue Hispanique , Vol. 71 (1927), Issue 160, pp. 485-554.

Books

• A Picture of Modern Spain. Men and music . Constable, London 1921.
• Luis de Milán and the Vihuelistas (Hispanic Notes and Monography; Vol. 11). OUP, London 1925.
• The music of Spanish history to 1600 (Hispanic Notes and Monography; Vol. 10). Kraus Reprint, Millwood 1974, ISBN 0-527-90780-4 (EA Oxford 1926)
• Alfonso the Sage and other Spanish essays . Constable, London 1962 (EA London 1929).
• Spain from the South . London 1928, 1990
• Manuel de Falla and Spanish Music . Knopf, London 1935 (EA New York 1929).
• The origins of modern Spain . University Press, Cambridge 1934.
• Mexico. A new Spain with old friends . New York 1941 (EA Cambridge 1940).
• South america. With Mexico and Central America . OUP, London 1941.
• The civilization of Spain (Oxford Paperbacks University Series; 19). OUP, London 1967 (EA London 1944).
  • Spanish: La civilización de España . Editorial Losada, Buenos Aires 1955.
• Bolívar and the Independence of Spanish America . Harper & Row, New York 1968 (EA London 1946).
• The language and history of Spain . Hutchinson, London 1953.
• Antonio Machado . Dolphin Books, Oxford 1953.
• Lorca and the Spanish poetic tradition . Russell & Russell, New York 1971 (EA Oxford 1956).
• Portugal (Nations of the modern world). Ernest Benn Press, London 1957.

As translator

• Juan Ramón Jiménez : Fifty Spanish poems . Dolphin Books, Oxford 1957 (bilingual, EA Oxford 1950)

literature

• Edward M. Wilson, [obituary]. In: Bulletin of Hispanic Studies , Vol. 35 (1958), pp. 223-224, ISSN  1475-3820
• The Musical Times , Vol. 99 (1959) June, pp. 331-332, ISSN  0027-4666
• Nigel Dennis (Eds.): Manuel de Falla and John B. Trend, Epistolario 1919–1935 . University Press, Granada 2007, ISBN 978-84-3384573-3 .
• Margaret Joan Anstee: JB. To Unlikely Spanish Don. The Life and Times of Professor John Brande Trend . Sussex Academy Press, Brighton 2013, ISBN 978-1-84519-572-4 . ( http://www.sussex-academic.com/sa/titles/biography/anstee.htm , résumé, English)

Web links

• Literature by and about John Brande Trend in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
• Information on John Brande Trend in the database of the Bibliothèque nationale de France .