British music and modernism, 1895-1960.
Contributors: Riley, Matthew, 1975-
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Burlington, VT
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780754665854
Subjects: Music -- Great Britain -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Music -- Great Britain -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Modernism (Music)
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Liberal critics and modern music in the post-Victorian age / Matthew Riley; title: A thoroughgoing modern : Elgar reception in the Manchester Guardian 1896-1908 / Meirion Hughes; title: Schoenberg, Roger Fry and the emergence of a critical language for the reception of musical modernism in Britain 1912-1914 / Deborah Heckert; title: Modernism, Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes in London 1911-1929 / Gareth Thomas; title: Frank Bridge's modern musical wave forms / Stephen Downes; title: A direct and intimate realization : Holst and formalism in the 1920s / Christopher M. Scheer; title: Façades for façade : William Walton, visual culture and English modernism in the Sitwell circle / Tim Barringer; title: Landscape and distance : Vaughan Williams, modernism and the symphonic pastoral / Daniel M. Grimley; title: Vaughan Williams's antic symphony / J.P.E. Harper-Scott; title: Hindemith's disciple in London : Walter Leigh on modern music 1932-1940 / Thomas Irvine; title: Benjamin Britten's Pierrot ensembles / Christopher Dromey; title: Music for the machines of the future : H. G. Wells, Arthur Bliss and things to come / Matthew Riley; title: Early music and the ambivalent origins of Elisabeth Lutyens's modernism / Laurel Parsons; title: The real thing at last? Historicizing Humphrey Searle / Ben Earle.