| Contents |
Volume 1. From the beginnings to the middle of the thirteenth century -- The later thirteenth and the fourteenth centuries -- The age of power and Dunstable -- The later fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries -- The period of the Reformation -- The Elizabethan and Jacobean period: music for the church -- Secular vocal music, 1575-1625 -- Instrumental music, 1575-1625: musical life and thought -- Charles I, the commonwealth, and the restoration -- Music under the later stuarts. |
| Contents |
Handel and his English contemporaries, c. 1715-1760. Handel's operas ; Musical theatre in English ; Burlesque and The Beggar's Opera ; Muscal theatre 1730-1760 ; Handel's oratorios and related works ; Oratorios and similar works by Handel's contemporaries ; Chamber cantatas ; Solo song ; Orchestral music ; Chamber music ; Solo keyboard music ; Church music ; Musical thought and scholarship -- The later eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, 1760-1815. Theatre music ; The oratorio and kindred forms ; Orchestral music ; Chamber music ; Harpsichord and piano music ; Organ music ; Song ; Church music ; Writings on music -- From the later Gregorian to the mid-Victorian age. Opera and theatre music ; Oratorio and cantata ; Orchestral music ; Chamber music ; Solo piano music ; Solo organ music ; Song ; Music for vocal ensemble ; Church music ; Musical thought and scholarship -- Later Victorian music and the 'English Reanissance', 1870-1914. Opera and theatre music ; Cantata and oratorio ; Part-songs and other unaccompanied vocal forms ; Solo song ; Orchestral music ; Chamber music ; Piano music ; Organ music ; Church music ; Musical literature and education -- Post-Romanticism, 1914-1945. Elgar ; Delius ; Holst ; Vaughan Williams ; Bridge, Ireland ; Bax ; Bliss, Howells ; Warlock, Moeran ; Rubbra, Finzi ; Walton, Lambert ; Berkeley, Rawsthorne , Lutyens, Maconchy ; Tippett, Britten ; Song ; Piano and chamber music ; Orchestral and choral music ; Opera and other theatre music ; Writing and scholarship ; Minor genres and summary -- Tradition and avant-garde, 1945-1975. Opera and music theatre ; Other genres: the older composers ; The middle generation: Walton, Rubbra, Rawsthorne, Berkeley ; Tippett, Britten: non-operatic work ; Older modernists: Lutyens, Frankel, Searle ; Younger traditionalists: Simpson, Fricker, Arnold ; Younger modernists (1): Goehr, Wood, Maw, Bennett ; Younger modernists (2): Davies, Birtwistle ; Younger modernists (3): Sherlaw Johnson, Crosse, Harvey ; New voices ; Song and church music ; Style and criticism -- Modernism and post modernism, 1976-1997. Tippett ; Older traditionalists ; Older eclectics ; The older avant-garde ; The younger avant-garde ; Younger pragmatists (1) ; Younger pragmatists (2) ; Summary, 1945-1997 -- Folk music and popular music. Popular music to 1700 ; The Scottish traditions ; Folk music in rural England since 1700 ; Industrial and urban folk song ; Popular music since 1700 ; Conclusions -- England and its music. English music and the European context ; England and its immediate neighbors ; London and the provinces ; Education and scholarship ; English music. |
| Abstract |
The first volume of this survey of English music charts its development from its beginnings to about 1715. It looks at the music of early monastic institutions and the development of polyphony, including the extraordinarily advanced mid-thirteenth-century canon, "Sumeris icumen in." It deals with the first Golden Age of English music, namely the mid-fifteenth-century composers represented in the Old Hall Manuscript, such as Dunstable and Power. It looks at the remarkable flowering of sixteenth-century choral music, of which Tallis's 'Spem in Alium' is a splendid example. And it charts the rise of the carol, the madrigal, and the seventeenth-century opera and masque and instrumental music, culminating in the genius of Henry Purcell. A well-balanced, judicious survey, with a unity of style and outlook resulting from its single author, the book makes a discussion of the actual music the focus of each chapter, without excluding social and historical comment. |
| Abstract |
The second volume of this survey of English music takes the story of English Music from c.1715 to the present day. Apart from discussing the music of the principal composers, it focuses to a certain extent on the work of lesser musicians, and includes developments in light and popular music as well as in serious genres. After seven chapters in which the main events are considered chronologically, a further chapter deals specifically with folk music and popular music of all periods, and a final chapter covers social issues not otherwise handled in detail. There are over a hundred musical examples, illustrating all chapters except the last, and all based on original sources. |
| Local note | Little-v.1--294584--305131000622N |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 90014229 |
| ISBN | 0198161298 (v. I ) : |
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