British music and modernism, 1895-1960 / edited by Matthew Riley.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Riley, Matthew, 1975-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music--Great Britain--20th century--History and criticism.

Music.

Great Britain.

Music--Great Britain--19th century--History and criticism.

Modernism (Music).

Physical Description:

xvi, 329 pages : illustrations, music ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2010]

Contents:

Liberal critics and modern music in the post-Victorian age / Matthew Riley

'A thoroughgoing modern' : Elgar reception in the Manchester Guardian, 1896-1908 / Meirion Hughes

Schoenberg, Roger Fry and the emergence of a critical language for the reception of musical modernism in Britain, 1912-1914 / Deborah Heckert

Modernism, Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes in London, 1911-1929 / Gareth Thomas

Modern maritime pastoral : wave deformations in the music of Frank Bridge / Stephen Downes

'A direct and intimate realization' : Holst and formalism in the 1920s / Christopher M. Scheer

Façades for Façade : William Walton, visual culture and English modernism in the Sitwell circle / Tim Barringer

Landscape and distance : Vaughan Williams, modernism and the symphonic pastoral / Daniel M. Grimley

Vaughan Williams's antic symphony / J.P.E. Harper-Scott

Hindemith's disciple in London : Walter Leigh on modern music, 1932-40 / Thomas Irvine

Benjamin Britten's 'Pierrot' ensembles / Christopher Dromey

Music for the machines of the future : H.G. Wells, Arthur Bliss and Things to come (1936) / Matthew Riley

Early music and the ambivalent origins of Elisabeth Lutyens's modernism / Laurel Parsons

'The real thing

at last?' Historicizing Humphrey Searle / Ben Earle.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780754665854

0754665852

OCLC:

454378352