Parry to Finzi: Twenty English Song-composers

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Boydell Press, 2005 - 463 pages
The works of twenty composers from the golden age of English romantic song, major figures - Parry, Stanford, Vaughan Williams, Quilter, Ireland, Gurney, Warlock and Finzi - studied alongside the lesser-known.

Constantly illuminating. JOHN STEANE, GRAMOPHONE
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 songwriters who have sufferedunaccountable neglect, Arthur Somervell, Armstrong Gibbs and Herbert Howells, and there are chapters on Elgar, Delius and Holst, 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.
TREVOR HOLD was a composer and poet who wrote extensively on English song. His setting of Laurie Lee's 'Day of these Days' won the English Poetry and Song Society/English Music Society 2002 GoldenJubilee Song Competition. He died in January 2004.

 

Table des matières

Setting Poetry to Music
1
Hubert Parry
17
Charles Stanford
41
Edward Elgar
59
Frederick Delius
73
Arthur Somervell
87
Ralph Vaughan Williams
102
Gustav Holst
124
Armstrong Gibbs
252
Ivor Gurney
266
Herbert Howells
296
Charles Orr
314
Peter Warlock
330
E J Moeran
373
Gerald Finzi
395
Chronological Checklist of English SongComposers Parry to Finzi
422

Roger Quilter
137
Frank Bridge
164
John Ireland
185
Arnold Bax
213
George Butterworth
234
Denis Browne
244
Glossary
427
Sources of Musical Examples
429
Bibliography
437
Index
443
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