| Description |
1 online resource (382 p.) |
| Series |
Music in Britain, 1600-2000 Ser. ; v.Volume 26 |
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Music in Britain, 1600-2000 Ser
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| Contents |
Front cover -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: The Symphonic Poem in Britain -- Part 1: Contexts -- Chapter 1: Narrative and Formal Plasticity in the British Symphonic Poem, 1850-1950 -- Chapter 2: The Symphonic Poem and British Music Criticism -- Chapter 3: Richard Strauss's Tone Poems in Britain, 1890-1950 -- Chapter 4: French Connections: Debussy and Ravel's Orchestral Music in Britain from Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune to Boléro -- Chapter 5: The Rise of the Symphonic Poem in Glasgow,1879-1916: A Documentary History |
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Part 2: Texts -- Chapter 6: 'A curious intricate work of the modern, but not the ultra-modern,school': William Wallace's Villon -- Chapter 7: Gustav Holst's Beni Mora and the Orientalist Imagination -- Chapter 8: Symphonic Poetry, 1914:Parry's From Death To Life -- Chapter 9: John Ireland's Mai-Dun:Composite Influences -- Chapter 10 Frank Bridge: Poems of Re-enchantment -- Select Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
The Symphonic Poem in Britain 1850-1950 aims to raise the status of the genre generally and in Britain specifically, by reaffirming British composers' confidence in dealing with literary texts |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Watt, Paul
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| ISBN |
9781787448414 |
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178744841X |
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