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Elgar's oratorios : the creation of an epic narrative / Charles Edward McGuire.
Van Pelt - Albrecht Music Library ML410.E41 M13 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McGuire, Charles Edward.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Elgar, Edward, 1857-1934. Oratorios.
- Elgar, Edward.
- Oratorio.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 339 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Aldershot ; Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, [2002]
- Contents:
- 1 The Nineteenth-Century British Oratorio 1
- 2 Narrative and the Oratorio 46
- 3 The Light of Life and the Traditional Oratorio 88
- 4 The Dream of Gerontius and Operatic Narrative 126
- 5 The Apostles and the Narrative Construction of an Epic 177
- 6 The Kingdom and the Epic Continued 245
- 7 Epilogue: Elgar and the Oratorio after The Kingdom 293
- Appendix A Select British Music Festival Programs, 1790-1906 303
- Appendix B Narration in British Oratorios and Oratorios Performed in Great Britain, ca. 1730-1944 311.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0754602710
- OCLC:
- 48571548
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