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Parry to Finzi : twenty English song-composers / Trevor Hold.
| Author/creator | Hold, Trevor |
| Other author | Parry, C. Hubert H. (Charles Hubert Hastings), 1848-1918. |
| Other author | Finzi, Gerald, 1901-1956. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK ; Rochester, NY : Boydell Press, 2002. |
| Description | xi, 463 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Hubert Parry -- Charles Stanford -- Edward Elgar -- Frederick Delius -- Arthur Somervell -- Ralph Vaughan Williams -- Gustav Holst -- Roger Quilter -- Frank Bridge -- John Ireland -- Arnold Bax -- George Butterworth -- Denis Browne -- Armstrong Gibbs -- Ivor Gurney -- Herbert Howells -- Charles Orr -- Peter Warlock -- E.J. Moeran -- Gerald Finzi -- Appendices. Chronological check-list of English song-composers, Parry to Finzi ; Principal music publishers. |
| Abstract | The composers in this book represent the outstanding songwriters from what we can now see as the golden age of English romantic song. As well as the major figures--Parry, Stanford, Vaughan Williams, Quilter, Ireland, Gurney, Warlock and Finzi--there are chapters on lesser-known composers, such as Denis Browne and Charles Orr. Detailed consideration is given to three composers who have suffered unaccountable neglect, Arthur Somervell, Armstrong Gibbs and Herbert Howells, and there are chapters on Elgar, Delius and Holst, composers whose reputations were made in other fields but whose contribution to English song is nevertheless important. Also taking their rightful places in the book are Frank Bridge, Arnold Bax, George Butterworth and E.J. Moeran. Each chapter begins with a discussion of its composer's song-output and of the poets and poetry he sets, and goes on to give an account of the influences on him and the hallmarks of his style; the songs are then discussed in detail, focusing on the major works. The text is illustrated with musical examples and there is a comprehensive bibliography and index. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 437-441) and index. |
| LCCN | 2002008051 |
| ISBN | 0851158870 (alk. paper) |