MTU Cork Library Catalogue

The English musical renaissance / Frank Howes.

By: Howes, Frank, 1891-1974 [author.].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: London : Secker & Warburg, [1966]Copyright date: ©1966Description: 381 pages : illustrations (music) ; 23 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeSubject(s): Music -- England -- History and criticismDDC classification: 780.90442
Contents:
The thesis -- Victorian England -- Sullivan, Mackenzie, Cowen and Smyth -- The folk music revival -- The Tudor revival -- The Bach revival and other movements -- Parry the instigator -- Stanford and the academic tradition -- Elgar -- Tributaries from Frankfurt, Birmingham and elsewhere -- The late Romantics -- Holst and Vaughan Williams: emancipation -- The Nationalists -- The post-war (1914-1918) group -- The post-war scene in English musical life -- Post-war vocal traditions -- Operatic changes -- Symphonic music in the twentieth century -- The domestic revolution -- Scholarship and criticism.

Bibliography: (pages 359-362) and index.

The thesis -- Victorian England -- Sullivan, Mackenzie, Cowen and Smyth -- The folk music revival -- The Tudor revival -- The Bach revival and other movements -- Parry the instigator -- Stanford and the academic tradition -- Elgar -- Tributaries from Frankfurt, Birmingham and elsewhere -- The late Romantics -- Holst and Vaughan Williams: emancipation -- The Nationalists -- The post-war (1914-1918) group -- The post-war scene in English musical life -- Post-war vocal traditions -- Operatic changes -- Symphonic music in the twentieth century -- The domestic revolution -- Scholarship and criticism.

Dr. Geoffrey Spratt Collection.

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