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British music and literary context : artistic connections in the long nineteenth century.

This book refutes the notion that British composers in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century lacked literary credentials, showing that they instead displayed a real confidence and assurance in refiguring literary texts in their music. It explores how literary context might offer modern aud...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Allis, Michael
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Woodbridge : Brewer, Boydell & amp ; 2012.
Colección:Music in Britain, 1600-1900.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Frontcover; Contents; List of Figures, Tables and Music Examples; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Introduction British Music and Literary Context; Chapter 1 Parry and Bridges: Music and Poetry in the Invocation to Music; Chapter 2 Stanford and Tennyson: The Musical Promotion of a Poet; Chapter 3 Bantock and Browning: Reformulated Dramatic Monologue in Fifine at the Fair; Chapter 4 Elgar and Bulwer Lytton: Hidden Narrative and the Piano Quintet, op. 84; Chapter 5 Elgar and Travel Literature: In the South and 'Imaginative Topography'; Bibliography; Index; Backcover.