Edward Elgar and His World
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19th-Century Music
Absolute music
Art music
August Jaeger
British Library
British music
Cambridge University Press
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Catholic Church
Catholic Church in England and Wales
Chanson
Charles Villiers Stanford
Chivalry
Choir
Cockaigne (In London Town)
Composer
Contralto
Coronation Ode
Delhi Durbar
Edward Burne-Jones
Edward Elgar
Enigma Variations
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Ernest Newman
Felix Mendelssohn
Frank Schuster (music patron)
Genre
George Bernard Shaw
Gratitude
Hubert Parry
Ideology
Illustration
Introduction and Allegro (Ravel)
Johannes Brahms
John Ruskin
Land of Hope and Glory
Lecture
Leitmotif
Leon Botstein
Libretto
Literature
Modernity
Mr.
Music festival
Music Is
Musical composition
Musicology
Narrative
Oratorio
Orchestra
Organist
Oxford University Press
Parsifal
Phrase (music)
Poetry
Popular culture
Popular music
Protestantism
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Religion
Rhetoric
Richard Strauss
Richard Wagner
Royal Academy of Music
Rudyard Kipling
Singing
The Crown of India
The Dream of Gerontius
The Golden Stairs
The Musical Times
Worcester Cathedral
Writing
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- ISBN 9780691134468
- Weight: 624g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 19 Aug 2007
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Edward Elgar (1857-1934) is undoubtedly one of the most fascinating, important, and influential figures in the history of British music. He rose from humble beginnings and achieved fame with music that to this day is beloved by audiences in England, and his work has secured an enduring legacy worldwide. Leading scholars examine the composer's life in Edward Elgar and His World, presenting a comprehensive portrait of both the man and the age in which he lived. Elgar's achievement is remarkably varied and wide-ranging, from immensely popular works like the famous Pomp and Circumstance March no. 1--a standard feature of American graduations--to sweeping masterpieces like his great oratorio The Dream of Gerontius. The contributors explore Elgar's Catholicism, which put him at odds with the prejudices of Protestant Britain; his glorification of British colonialism; his populist tendencies; his inner life as an inspired autodidact; the aristocratic London drawing rooms where his reputation was made; the class prejudice with which he contended throughout his career; and his anguished reaction to World War I.
Published in conjunction with the 2007 Bard Music Festival and the 150th anniversary of Elgar's birth, this elegant and thought-provoking volume illuminates the greatness of this accomplished English composer and brings vividly to life the rich panorama of Victorian and Edwardian Britain. The contributors are Byron Adams, Leon Botstein, Rachel Cowgill, Sophie Fuller, Daniel M. Grimley, Nalini Ghuman Gwynne, Deborah Heckert, Charles Edward McGuire, Matthew Riley, Alison I. Shiel, and Aidan J. Thomson.
Byron Adams is professor of composition and musicology at the University of California, Riverside. He is the coeditor of "Vaughan Williams Essays".
