Sensibility and English song : critical studies of the early 20th century / Stephen Banfield
1985, 1st edition. Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #428114
Physical description; 2 volumes (xvi, 619 pages) : music ; 26 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 531-542) and index. Contents; Explanation of bibliographical system and song lists -- Abbreviations -- Part I. The growth of sensibility. The condition of English song in 1900 -- Reticent Victorians : Elgar, Parry, Stanford and Wood -- Narrative song-cycle and dramatic scena : Somervell and Walford Davies -- Three post-Victorians : Hurlstone, Bridge and Vaughan Williams -- The Edwardian age (I) -- The Edwardian age (II) -- The First World War : its effect and its victims -- Part II. The Lyrical Impulse Between the Wars. Introduction : the uses of technique -- style and personal symbolism in John Ireland -- The music of Ivor Gurney -- Georgian poetry and Georgian music -- Housman and the composers : documentation and evaluation -- The Celtic twilight -- Time and destiny : the Hardy songs of Gerald Finzi -- The uses and abuses of technique -- Postscript: The pursuit of detachment -- Appendices -- Song lists. Subjects; Bridge, Frank 1879-1941 - Songs. Elgar, Edward 1857-1934 - Vocal music - Songs. Finzi, Gerald 1901-1956 - Songs. Gurney, Ivor 1890-1937 - Songs. Hurlstone, William Yeates 1876-1906 - Songs. Ireland, John 1879-1962 - Songs. Parry, Charles Hubert Hastings 1848-1918 - Songs. Stanford, Charles Villiers 1852-1924 - Songs. Vaughan Williams, Ralph 1872-1958 - Songs. Wood, Henry J. 1869-1944 - Songs. 1900-1999. Songs England 20th century History and criticism. Music and literature History 20th century. Songs England 20th century Texts History and criticism. Music and literature.
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