Author : Peter Ackroyd
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : English fiction
ISBN : 0140169415
English Music
Peter Ackroyd
English Music
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A New English Music
Tim Rayborn
Author : Tim Rayborn
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-27
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781476624945
A New English Music by Tim Rayborn Pdf
The turn of the 20th century was a time of great change in Britain. The empire saw its global influence waning and its traditional social structures challenged. There was a growing weariness of industrialism and a desire to rediscover tradition and the roots of English heritage. A new interest in English folk song and dance inspired art music, which many believed was seeing a renaissance after a period of stagnation since the 18th century. This book focuses on the lives of seven composers--Ralph Vaughan Williams, Gustav Holst, Ernest Moeran, George Butterworth, Philip Heseltine (Peter Warlock), Gerald Finzi and Percy Grainger--whose work was influenced by folk songs and early music. Each chapter provides an historical background and tells the fascinating story of a musical life.
Britpop and the English Music Tradition
Jon Stratton
Author : Jon Stratton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781317171225
Britpop and the English Music Tradition by Jon Stratton Pdf
Britpop and the English Music Tradition is the first study devoted exclusively to the Britpop phenomenon and its contexts. The genre of Britpop, with its assertion of Englishness, evolved at the same time that devolution was striking deep into the hegemonic claims of English culture to represent Britain. It is usually argued that Britpop, with its strident declarations of Englishness, was a response to the dominance of grunge. The contributors in this volume take a different point of view: that Britpop celebrated Englishness at a time when British culture, with its English hegemonic core, was being challenged and dismantled. It is now timely to look back on Britpop as a cultural phenomenon of the 1990s that can be set into the political context of its time, and into the cultural context of the last fifty years - a time of fundamental revision of what it means to be British and English. The book examines issues such as the historical antecedents of Britpop, the subjectivities governing the performative conventions of Britpop, the cultural context within which Britpop unfolded, and its influence on the post-Britpop music scene in the UK. While Britpop is central to the volume, discussion of this phenomenon is used as an opportunity to examine the particularities of English popular music since the turn of the twentieth century.
Tonic to the Nation: Making English Music in the Festival of Britain
Nathaniel G. Lew
Author : Nathaniel G. Lew
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781317009887
Tonic to the Nation: Making English Music in the Festival of Britain by Nathaniel G. Lew Pdf
Long remembered chiefly for its modernist exhibitions on the South Bank in London, the 1951 Festival of Britain also showcased British artistic creativity in all its forms. In Tonic to the Nation, Nathaniel G. Lew tells the story of the English classical music and opera composed and revived for the Festival, and explores how these long-overlooked components of the Festival helped define English music in the post-war period. Drawing on a wealth of archival material, Lew looks closely at the work of the newly chartered Arts Council of Great Britain, for whom the Festival of Britain provided the first chance to assert its authority over British culture. The Arts Council devised many musical programs for the Festival, including commissions of new concert works, a vast London Season of almost 200 concerts highlighting seven centuries of English musical creativity, and several schemes to commission and perform new operas. These projects were not merely directed at bringing audiences to hear new and old national music, but to share broader goals of framing the national repertory, negotiating between the conflicting demands of conservative and progressive tastes, and using music to forge new national definitions in a changed post-war world.
Britpop and the English Music Tradition
Professor Andy Bennett,Professor Jon Stratton
Author : Professor Andy Bennett,Professor Jon Stratton
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-28
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781409494072
Britpop and the English Music Tradition by Professor Andy Bennett,Professor Jon Stratton Pdf
Britpop and the English Music Tradition is the first study devoted exclusively to the Britpop phenomenon and its contexts. The genre of Britpop, with its assertion of Englishness, evolved at the same time that devolution was striking deep into the hegemonic claims of English culture to represent Britain. It is usually argued that Britpop, with its strident declarations of Englishness, was a response to the dominance of grunge. The contributors in this volume take a different point of view: that Britpop celebrated Englishness at a time when British culture, with its English hegemonic core, was being challenged and dismantled. It is now timely to look back on Britpop as a cultural phenomenon of the 1990s that can be set into the political context of its time, and into the cultural context of the last fifty years – a time of fundamental revision of what it means to be British and English. The book examines issues such as the historical antecedents of Britpop, the subjectivities governing the performative conventions of Britpop, the cultural context within which Britpop unfolded, and its influence on the post-Britpop music scene in the UK. While Britpop is central to the volume, discussion of this phenomenon is used as an opportunity to examine the particularities of English popular music since the turn of the twentieth century.
Early English Viols: Instruments, Makers and Music
Michael Fleming,John Bryan
Author : Michael Fleming,John Bryan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-18
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781317147152
Early English Viols: Instruments, Makers and Music by Michael Fleming,John Bryan Pdf
Winner of the Nicholas Bessaraboff Prize Musical repertory of great importance and quality was performed on viols in sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century England. This is reported by Thomas Mace (1676) who says that ’Your Best Provision’ for playing such music is a chest of old English viols, and he names five early English viol makers than which ’there are no Better in the World’. Enlightened scholars and performers (both professional and amateur) who aim to understand and play this music require reliable historical information and need suitable viols, but so little is known about the instruments and their makers that we cannot specify appropriate instruments with much precision. Our ignorance cannot be remedied exclusively by the scrutiny or use of surviving antique viols because they are extremely rare, they are not accessible to performers and the information they embody is crucially compromised by degradation and alteration. Drawing on a wide variety of evidence including the surviving instruments, music composed for those instruments, and the documentary evidence surrounding the trade of instrument making, Fleming and Bryan draw significant conclusions about the changing nature and varieties of viol in early modern England.
"Music and Orientalism in the British Empire, 1780s?940s "
Bennett Zon
Author : Bennett Zon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351557580
"Music and Orientalism in the British Empire, 1780s?940s " by Bennett Zon Pdf
Filling a significant gap in current scholarship, the fourteen original essays that make up this volume individually and collectively reflect on the relationship between music and Orientalism in the British Empire over the course of the long nineteenth century. The book is in four themed sections. 'Portrayal of the East' traces the routes from encounter to representation and restores the Orient to its rightful place in histories of Orientalism. 'Interpreting Concert Music' looks at one of the principal forms in which Orientalism could be brought to an eager and largely receptive - yet sometimes resistant - mass market. 'Words and Music' investigates the confluence of musical and Orientalist themes in different genres of writing, including criticism, fiction and travel writing. Finally, 'The Orientalist Stage' discusses crucial sites of Orientalist representation - music theatre and opera - as well as tracing similar phenomena in twentieth-century Hindi cinema. These final chapters examine the rendering of the East as 'unachievable and unrecognizable' for the consuming gaze of the western spectator.
An Imperishable Heritage: British Choral Music from Parry to Dyson
Stephen Town
Author : Stephen Town
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781317181873
An Imperishable Heritage: British Choral Music from Parry to Dyson by Stephen Town Pdf
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.
The Book of English Songs
Charles Mackay
Author : Charles Mackay
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1851
Category : Ballads, English
ISBN : OXFORD:N12142820
The Book of English Songs by Charles Mackay Pdf
English Keyboard Music Before the Nineteenth Century
John Caldwell
Author : John Caldwell
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1985-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 0486248518
English Keyboard Music Before the Nineteenth Century by John Caldwell Pdf
English keyboard art from Robertsbridge Codex (c. 1325) to John Field. Illuminating coverage of organ, harpsichord, pianoforte, other instruments; works of Tallis, Byrd, Gibbons, Tomkins, many others. Bibliography.
A Catalogue of Foreign and English Music ... Part I.
Robert Cocks & Co
Author : Robert Cocks & Co
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1846
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0024415073
A Catalogue of Foreign and English Music ... Part I. by Robert Cocks & Co Pdf
The Function of Song in Contemporary British Drama
Elizabeth Hale Winkler
Author : Elizabeth Hale Winkler
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0874133580
The Function of Song in Contemporary British Drama by Elizabeth Hale Winkler Pdf
This comprehensive study formulates an original theory that dramatic song must be perceived as a separate genre situated between poetry, music, and theater. It focuses on John Arden, Margaretta D'Arcy, Edward Bond, Peter Barnes, John Osborne, Peter Nichols, Harold Pinter, Tom Stoppard, Peter Shaffer, and John McGrath.
Recontextualized
Lindy L. Johnson,Christian Z. Goering
Author : Lindy L. Johnson,Christian Z. Goering
Publisher : Springer
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2016-07-25
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789463006064
Recontextualized by Lindy L. Johnson,Christian Z. Goering Pdf
Recontextualized: A Framework for Teaching English with Music is a book that can benefit any English teacher looking for creative approaches to teaching reading, writing, and critical thinking. Providing theoretically-sound, classroom-tested practices, this edited collection not only offers accessible methods for including music into your lesson plans, but also provides a framework for thinking about all classroom practice involving popular culture. The framework described in Recontextualized can be easily adapted to a variety of educational standards and consists of four separate approaches, each with a different emphasis or application. Written by experienced teachers from a variety of settings across the United States, this book illustrates the myriad ways popular music can be used, analyzed, and created by students in the English classroom. “Together, this editor/author team has produced a book that virtuallyvibrates with possibilities for engaging youth in ways that speak to their interests while simultaneously maintaining the rigor expected of English classes.” – Donna E. Alvermann, University of Georgia
History of English Music
Henry Davey
Author : Henry Davey
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1019576820
History of English Music by Henry Davey Pdf
A survey of English music from the medieval period to the early twentieth century, examining the development of different genres, styles, and composers in their cultural and historical context. The book also explores the reception of English music in other countries, and the influence of foreign music on English composers. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
British Women Composers and Instrumental Chamber Music in the Early Twentieth Century
Laura Seddon
Author : Laura Seddon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781317171348
British Women Composers and Instrumental Chamber Music in the Early Twentieth Century by Laura Seddon Pdf
This is the first full-length study of British women's instrumental chamber music in the early twentieth century. Laura Seddon argues that the Cobbett competitions, instigated by Walter Willson Cobbett in 1905, and the formation of the Society of Women Musicians in 1911 contributed to the explosion of instrumental music written by women in this period and highlighted women's place in British musical society in the years leading up to and during the First World War. Seddon investigates the relationship between Cobbett, the Society of Women Musicians and women composers themselves. The book’s six case studies - of Adela Maddison (1866-1929), Ethel Smyth (1858-1944), Morfydd Owen (1891-1918), Ethel Barns (1880-1948), Alice Verne-Bredt (1868-1958) and Susan Spain-Dunk (1880-1962) - offer valuable insight into the women’s musical education and compositional careers. Seddon’s discussion of their chamber works for differing instrumental combinations includes an exploration of formal procedures, an issue much discussed by contemporary sources. The individual composers' reactions to the debate instigated by the Society of Women Musicians, on the future of women's music, is considered in relation to their lives, careers and the chamber music itself. As the composers in this study were not a cohesive group, creatively or ideologically, the book draws on primary sources, as well as the writings of contemporary commentators, to assess the legacy of the chamber works produced.