British Music and Modernism, 1895–1960

Abstract

Contents: Introduction, Matthew Riley Liberal critics and modern music in the post-Victorian age, Matthew Riley 'A thoroughgoing modern': Elgar reception in the Manchester Guardian 1896-1908, Meirion Hughes Schoenberg, Roger Fry and the emergence of a critical language for the reception of musical modernism in Britain 1912-1914, Deborah Heckert Modernism, Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes in London 1911-1929, Gareth Thomas Modern maritime pastoral: wave deformations in the music of Frank Bridge, Stephen Downes 'A direct and intimate realization': Holst and formalism in the 1920s, Christopher M. Scheer FaA ades for FaA ade: William Walton, visual culture and English modernism in the Sitwell circle, Tim Barringer Landscape and distance: Vaughan Williams, modernism and the symphonic pastoral, Daniel M. Grimley Vaughan Williams's antic symphony, J.P.E. Harper-Scott Hindemith's disciple in London: Walter Leigh on modern music 1932-1940, Thomas Irvine Benjamin Britten's 'Pierrot' ensembles, Christopher Dromey Music for the machines of the future: H.G. Wells, Arthur Bliss and Things to Come (1936), Matthew Riley Early music and the ambivalent origins of Elisabeth Lutyens's modernism, Laurel Parsons 'The real thing - at last'? Historicizing Humphrey Searle, Ben Earle Index.

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