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The sea in the British musical imagination /

For centuries, the sea and those who sail upon it have inspired the imaginations of British musicians. Generations of British artists have viewed the ocean as a metaphor for the mutable human condition - by turns calm and reflective, tempestuous and destructive - and have been influenced as much by...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Saylor, Eric (Editor ), Scheer, Christopher M. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Woodbridge, Suffolk, U.K. ; Rochester, N.Y. : Boydell Press, 2015.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 'Brittania rule the waves' : maritime music and national identity in eighteenth-century Britain / Alyson McLamore
  • Scotland, the 'Celtic North, ' and the sea : issues of identity in Bantock's Hebridean symphony (1915) / Jennifer Oates
  • Sea change : a meditation upon Frank Bridge's Lament: to Catherine, age 9, 'Lusitania' 1915 / Byron Adams
  • Crosscurrents in the Britten legacy : two visions of Aldeburgh / Christopher M. Scheer
  • 'Come away, fellow sailors' : musical characterization of the nautical profession in seventeenth-century England / Amanda Eubanks Winkler
  • Jolly Jack Tar : musical caricature and characterization of the British sailor, c. 1875-1925 / James Brooks Kuykendall
  • Fishers of men : maritime radio and evangelical hymnody in the Scottish fishing industry, 1950-65 / Frances Wilkins
  • Amanuensis of the sea : Peter Maxwell Davies's Symphonies nos. 1 and 2 and the Antarctic symphony / Justin Vickers
  • Three journeys. Two paths : locating the lyric and dramatic in Elgar's Sea pictures / Charles Edward McGuire
  • Political visions. National identities, and the sea itself : Stanford and Vaughan Williams in 1910 / Eric Saylor
  • Bax's 'Sea symphony' / Aidan J. Thomson
  • 'Close your eyes and listen to it' : special sound and the sea in BBC radio drama, 1957-59 / Louis Niebur
  • Afterword : Channelling the swaying sound of the sea / Jenny Doctor.