| Description |
296 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliography and index. |
| Contents |
Sir Edward Elgar -- Sir Granville Bantock and Joseph Holbrooke -- Ralph Vaughan Williams -- Gustav Holst -- Rutland Boughton -- Sir Hamilton Harty -- John Ireland -- Sir Arnold Bax -- Herbert Howells and Ivor Gurney -- Ernest John Moeran -- Gerald Finzi -- Benjamin Britten -- Other composers. Early composers ; Heralds of the English musical renaissance ; Sir Arthur Sullivan ; Sir Hubert Parry ; Sir Charles Villiers Stanford -- The Scottish Composers. Sir Alexander Campbell Mackenzie ; William Wallace ; Hamish MacCunn ; John Blackwood McEwen -- English composers of the twentieth century. Frederick Delius ; Sir Edward German ; Sir Arthur Somervell ; Havergal Brian ; Balfour Gardiner ; Frank Bridge ; Sir George Dyson ; Ernest Farrar and George Butterworth ; Cecil Armstrong Gibbs ; Sir Arthur Bliss ; Peter Warlock ; Cecil Gray ; Patrick Hadley ; The Northampton composers, Edmund Rubbra, William Alwyn, and Malcolm Arnold ; The Lancashire composers, Sir William Walton and Alan Rawsthorne -- Contemporary composers. |
| Subject |
Composers -- Great Britain -- Biography.
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Composers. |
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Great Britain. |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| Subject |
Landscapes in music.
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Landscapes in music. |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| Added Title |
How the British countryside inspired our greatest composers |
| ISBN |
9780709084686 |
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0709084684 |
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