Research Catalog

Title

Parry to Finzi : twenty English song-composers / Trevor Hold.

Author

Hold, Trevor.

Publication

Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK ; Rochester, NY : Boydell Press, 2002.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Parry, C. Hubert H. (Charles Hubert Hastings), 1848-1918
• Finzi, Gerald, 1901-1956

Description

xi, 463 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Summary

• "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 composers who have suffered unaccountable neglect, Arthur Somervell, Armstrong Gibbs and Herbert Howells, and there are chapters on Elgar, Delius and Holst, composers 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."--Jacket.

Subject

• Songs, English > England > History and criticism
• English poetry > History and criticism
• Vocal music > England > History and criticism
• Composers > England

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [437]-441) and index.

Contents

Hubert Parry -- Charles Stanford -- Edward Elgar -- Frederick Delius -- Arthur Somervell -- Ralph Vaughan Williams -- Gustav Holst -- Roger Quilter -- Frank Bridge -- John Ireland -- Arnold Bax -- George Butterworth -- Denis Browne -- Armstrong Gibbs -- Ivor Gurney -- Herbert Howells -- Charles Orr -- Peter Warlock -- E.J. Moeran -- Gerald Finzi.

ISBN

0851158870 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2002008051

OCLC

• 49859982
• SCSB-11635809

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library