Parry to Finzi: Twenty English Song-Composers
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Armstrong Gibbs
Arnold Bax
Arthur Somervell
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Charles Orr
comprehensive bibliography
Day of these Days
Delius
Denis Browne
E.J. Moeran
Elgar
English Music Society
English Poetry
English romantic song
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Finzi
Frank Bridge
George Butterworth
Gurney
Herbert Howells
Holst
influences
Ireland
Laurie Lee
lesser-known composers
major composers
musical examples
Parry
Penguin Companion to Classical Music
poetry
poets
Quilter
Song Society
song-output
Stanford
style
Trevor Hold
Vaughan Williams
Warlock
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- ISBN 9781843831747
- Weight: 702g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 15 Sep 2005
- Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
