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Edward Elgar - Music, Life and Landscapes (Hardcover)
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Edward Elgar - Music, Life and Landscapes (Hardcover)
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More perhaps than any other composer, Edward Elgar (1857-1934) has
gained the status of an 'icon of locality', his music seemingly
inextricably linked to the English landscape in which he worked.
This, the first full-length study of Elgar's complex interaction
with his physical environment, explores how it is that such
associations are formed and whether it is any sense true that Elgar
alchemized landscape into music. It argues that Elgar stands at the
apex of an English tradition, going back to Blake, in which
creative artists in all media have identified and warned against
the self-harm of environmental degradation and that, following a
period in which these ideas were swept away by the swift but
shallow tide of Modernism in the decades after the First World War,
they have since resurfaced with a new relevance and urgency for
twenty-first century society. Written with the non-specialist in
mind, yet drawing on the rich resources of post-millennial
scholarship on Elgar, as well as geographical studies of place, the
book also includes many new insights relating to such aspects of
Elgar's output as his use of landscape typology in The Apostles,
and his encounter with Modernism in the late chamber music. It also
calls on the resources of contemporary social commentary, poetry
and, especially, English landscape art to place Elgar and his
thought in the broader cultural milieu of his time. A survey of
recent recordings is included, in the hope that listeners, both
familiar and unfamiliar with Elgar's music, will feel inspired to
embark on a voyage of (re)discovery of its endlessly rewarding
treasures.
General
Imprint: |
Pen & Sword History
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
October 2020 |
Authors: |
Suzie Grogan
• Christopher Grogan
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Dimensions: |
234 x 156 x 27mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover
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Pages: |
264 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-5267-6462-1 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
1-5267-6462-8 |
Barcode: |
9781526764621 |
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