Stephen Town

An Imperishable Heritage: British Choral Music from Parry to Dyson (eBook, PDF)

A Study of Selected Works

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Produktbeschreibung

The rehabilitation of British music began with Hubert Parry and Charles Villiers Stanford. Ralph Vaughan Williams assisted in its emancipation from continental models, while Gerald Finzi, Edmund Rubbra and George Dyson flourished in its independence. Stephen Town's survey of Choral Music of the English Musical Renaissance is rooted in close examination of selected works from these composers. Town collates the substantial secondary literature on these composers, and brings to bear his own study of the autograph manuscripts. The latter form an unparalleled record of compositional process and shed new light on the compositions as they have come down to us in their published and recorded form. This close study of the sources allows Town to identify for the first time instances of similarity and imitation, continuities and connections between the works.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 354
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317181873
• Artikelnr.: 49354160

Autorenporträt

Stephen Town is Professor of Music at Northwest Missouri State University. He is a recipient of the Ralph Vaughan Williams Fellowship and has published widely on music from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Chapter Appendices
List of Tables
List of Figures
List of Music Examples
Preface
Acknowledgments
1. Hubert Parry and The Vision of Life Reconsidered: "And we are faint with longing to hear the message clearly"
2. Voces Clamantium and Beyond These Voices There Is Peace: The Embodiment of Parry's Character Polarities
3. Two Versions of The Three Holy Children by Charles Stanford: Context
Design
and Extant Scores
4. Elegiac Ode by Charles Stanford: An Inspired Setting
Influential Exemplar
and Filial Tribute
5. Flos Campi by Ralph Vaughan Williams: "From Raw Intimations to Homogeneous Experience"
6. "The light we sought is shining still": An Oxford Elegy by Ralph Vaughan Williams
7. "So great a beauty on these English fields": Requiem da Camera and Gerald Finzi (1901-1956)
8. "The visionary gleam": Gerald Finzi
Ralph Vaughan Williams
and Intimations of Immortality
9. Symphony No. 9
Sinfonia Sacra by Edmund Rubbra
10. The Morning Watch
Op. 55 by Edmund Rubbra
11. "A home of unfading splendour": Quo Vadis by George Dyson (1883-1964)
12. George Dyson's Nebuchadnezzar and the Stimulus of Parry
Stanford
and Walton
Afterword
Bibliography
Index