Elgar's Prize Song: Quotation and Allusion in the Second Symphony

Abstract

Although by technical analysis one can isolate the virus in any particular passage, and although the music itself is strong enough to be self-sufficient, examined and heard purely as a musical structure, yet by excluding extramusical clues and associations, whether personal or literary, a dimension is eradicated. In Elgar's case, more than in many another composer's, the music is such a personal expression that his clues to its meaning, even in nonprogrammatic works, are a valuable adjunct to understanding and not, as so often happens, a red herring or deliberately misleading.'

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