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England Resounding - Elgar, Vaughan Williams, Britten and the English Musical Renaissance (Hardcover)
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England Resounding - Elgar, Vaughan Williams, Britten and the English Musical Renaissance (Hardcover)
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The spectacular revival of serious music in England is a chief
feature of the history of British culture from the turn of the
twentieth century and after. For some two centuries the art form
had stagnated in England, which was referred to, notoriously, by a
German commentator as 'the land without music'. But then came a
great renaissance. In the three linked essays that make up this
book, Keith Alldritt, the most recent biographer of Vaughan
Williams, examines the several phases and genres of this revival. A
number of composers including Gustav Holst, Arnold Bax and William
Walton contributed to the renewal. But this book presents the
renaissance as centrally a continuity of enterprise, sometimes of
riposte, running from Elgar to Vaughan Williams and then to
Benjamin Britten. Their concern was with music at its most serious,
though not unceasingly humourless. All three explored music's
frontier with philosophy. They also probed the psychological impact
of the unprecedently violent and destructive century in which they
practised their art. Going beyond musicological comment, England
Resounding essays insights into the historical, geopolitical and
personal events that elicited the major works of these three great
composers.
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