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Joseph Holbrooke : composer, critic, and musical patriot / edited by Paul Watt and Anne-Marie Forbes.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Composers--England--Biography.
- Composers.
- Music--England--20th century--History and criticism.
- Music.
- Holbrooke, Joseph, 1878-1958.
- Holbrooke, Joseph.
- Holbrooke, Joseph, 1878-1958. Contemporary British composers.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (380 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2015]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This is the first scholarly work to document the musical contribution of Joseph Holbrooke, one of Britain's most controversial composers during the first half of the twentieth century. Paul Watt and Anne-Marie Forbes have gathered a team of scholars who focuses on the musical and literary life of the composer.
- Contents:
- Situating Holbrooke in British musical history / Paul Watt and Anne-Marie Forbes
- Joseph Holbrooke : a life in outline / Rob Barnett
- Friendship with Granville Bantock / David Craik
- Celtic connections and T.E. Ellis / Anne-Marie Forbes
- Holbrooke's chamber music and the specter of mass culture / Paul Hopwood
- Holbrooke and chamber opera : Pierrot and Pierrette and The enchanted garden / Paul Rodmell
- Holbrooke and Poe revisited : refiguring The raven as the musical uncanny / Michael Allis
- A "nationalist in art" : Holbrooke's Contemporary British composers / Paul Watt.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references, chronology, discography, and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-8108-8892-0
- OCLC:
- 903531593
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