Elgar's Oratorios
Subtitle: The Creation of an Epic Narrative
Publisher: Ashgate Pub Ltd
Published: October 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 339
ISBN-13: 9780754602712
Subjects: 20th century music; Composers & musicians; Romantic music (c 1830 to c 1900); Sacred & religious music; 20th century; c 1800 to c 1900; Oratorios; History & Criticism - General; Music; 1857-1934.; Elgar, Edward,; 1857-1934; Oratorio
Description: "Using narrative theory to analyze the structure of the oratorios, Charles McGuire locates the different problem presented in each of the four works and shows the increasingly complex musical means that Elgar used to solve them. This new approach reveals that The Light of Life and Gerontius gave Elgar the tools to create musical epic of Wagnerian proportions in The Apostles and The Kingdom, and to transcend the limitations of the oratorio genre."--Jacket.