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Elgar studies / edited by Raymond Monk.

Contributor(s): Monk, Ray.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Aldershot, Hants, England ; Brookfield, Vt., USA : Scolar Press, c1990Description: xix, 260 p., 9 p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm. + hbk.ISBN: 0859678105 .Subject(s): Elgar, Edward, 1857-1934 -- Criticism and interpretationDDC classification: 780.92 ELG
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Edward Elgar rose from obscurity to become the most popular English composer of his day. Elgar's music is known world-wide and works such as the 'Enigma Variations' and 'The Dream of Gerontius' together with the two symphonies and the two concertos have established him as one of the greatest British composers of all time. The Elgar Society was founded in 1951 to further the cause of Elgar's music and the present volume of essays has been compiled as an expression of gratitude for the work that it has done. These essays reflect the variety and richness of Elgar's music and the debate that this music continues to encourage. The book is not simply for academics however; lovers of music in general will find much to entertain them and it will add greatly to our appreciation of Elgar.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Discography: p. 237-249.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • Elgar's musical apprenticeship
  • Elgar's harmonic language
  • 'King Olaf' and the English choral tradition
  • Friends pictured within
  • Elgar the Edwardian
  • Elgar's Magus and Projector
  • Elgar and Falstaff
  • Elgar and the wonderful stranger: Music for 'The Starlight Express'
  • Shaw and Elgar
  • Some Elgar Interpreters
  • Envoy
  • Select Discography

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CHOICE Review

A heartwarming and useful collection. Peter Dennison illustrates (with appendixes) the breadth of Elgar's acquaintance with European and British music as listener, player, or conductor during his "musical apprenticeship" years. Greatly admiring Wagner, Elgar also loved Mozart's 40th, Brahms's 3rd, and Berlioz's orchestration, but had little contact with Bruckner and Mahler. Ian Parrott is boring and trivial on Elgar's harmonic language, and Michael Pope's impassioned advocacy of King Olaf as a major landmark is, while interesting, occasionally hilarious. But Percy Young restores one's equilibrium with a chatty, helpful piece on aspects of the "friends pictured within" the Enigma, and Michael Kennedy sensibly insists that Elgar's music be understood as a response more to the composer's personal crises than to the spirit of the Edwardian Age. Robert Anderson on Elgar's interest in the magus idea is suitably arcane; Diana McVeagh on Elgar's approach to the character of Falstaff is elegent and provocative. Best of all are K.E.I. Simmons's long, fascinating story of the genesis of the music for Starlight Express and Michael Kennedy's sympathetic, generous and inspiring commentary on "Some Elgar Interpreters" (with a selective discography). An unpretentious volume that speaks to all Elgarians, this belongs in all music libraries. -W. Metcalfe, University of Vermont

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Raymond Monk

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