Howes, Frank, 1891-1974,

The English musical renaissance / Frank Howes. - 381 pages : illustrations (music) ; 23 cm

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.

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Music--History and criticism--England

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