Title: Essays and lectures.
Authors: Colles, H. C. 1879-1943.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Subjects: Music History and criticism
Contents: Some English musicians. A master of song ; John Dowland ; Musical London from the restoration to Handel ; Purcell restored ; Lully and Purcell ; That pick-pocket opera ; Parry as song writer ; The modern symphony ; A pastoral symphony ; Vaughan William's progress ; "Sir John in love" ; Job : a masque ; "Five Tudor portraits" ; Contrasts and blends -- The opera. A classical modernist ; Verdi at work ; Design and purpose ; Opera and the time machine -- Church music. John Merbecke ; A hint from William Byrd ; Samuel Sebastian Wesley ; Church music ; The Cathedral service ; The parochial ideal ; Joy in music -- General. Substance and style ; Vienna's music ; A musical scholar ; Who is Bach? ; Beethoven's finales ; The Ninth Symphony ; An American critic ; Mozart in musical life to-day ; A postscript : Mozart's tunes -- H.C.C. : a memoir by H.J.C.