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British Light Music, a Personal Gallery of 20th Century Composers. (Paperback)
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British Light Music, a Personal Gallery of 20th Century Composers. (Paperback)
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Eric Coates, Haydn Wood, Albert Ketelbey, Alfred Reynolds, Hubert
Bath, Billy Mayerl, Richard Addinsell and many more. British light
music, immensely tuneful and always well crafted, was enormously
popular in the early to mid-twentieth century. It has been largely
ignored by music dictionaries and serious critics, yet for so long
it played an important part in the lives of millions. Not only have
changing fashions pushed it into the background, but many of the
institutions which nourished it - theatre orchestras, resort
orchestras, salon orchestras of all kinds, ballad concerts and of
course the BBC - have largely disappeared, changed out of all
recognition, or lost interest. Some of its sub-genres, especially
brass and symphonic band music and film and television music, still
hold up well and there are other signs that interest in light music
generally is steadily reviving. This completely reset edition of a
major work on the subject, by a life-long enthusiast for the genre,
containing short essays on many of the field's most celebrated
composers, will help to lead the way. Ernest Tomlinson, doyen of
living light music composers, contributes a thoughtful and
challenging Foreword.
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