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245 14 a| The music makers :b| the English musical renaissance from Elgar to Britten /c| Michael Trend.;

250 a| 1st American edition.;

260 a| New York :b| Schirmer Books,c| 1985.;

300 a| xvii, 268 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates :b| illustrations ;c| 24 cm;

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504 a| Includes bibliographical references (pages 246-253) and index.;

505 00 t| The English musical Renaissance: a nest of singing birds --t| The English environment: Elgar, Delius --t| Traditions, old and new: Hurlstone, Coleridge-Taylor, Boughton, Holbrooke --t| Shifting horizons: Bantock, Brian, Davies, Smyth --t| Heirs and rebels: Vaughan Williams, Holst, Butterworth --t| Holding the middle ground: Bax, Ireland, Bridge --t| The Frankfurt gang: Gardiner, O'Neill, Quilter, Scott, Grainger --t| The shock of the new: Bliss, Walton, Lambert, Berners, Warlock, Moeran --t| Traditions, new and old: Gurney, Howells, Bush, Rubbra, Finzi, Orr --t| Rebels and heirs: Tippett, Britten.;

520 a| This book is valuable for its attempt to show English composers in their context, in both the musical world and the wider context of English society. This provides a useful perspective that is necessarily lacking, or at least peripheral, in biographies of single composers such as Elgar or Vaughan Williams, and also allows coverage of minor figures who may never receive full biographical coverage, such as Joseph Holbrooke or C.W. Orr. It shows a little of how the English musical renaissance which began with Elgar had its roots both in the Victorian age of Parry and Stanford and in the sincere and generally unchauvinistic musical nationalism of the later 19th and early 20th century. It tracks the development of individual talents within this milieu, showing the personal relationships which supported it. Alongside the (necessarily brief) discussion of major figures such as Elgar, Vaughan Williams, Holst, Bax, and Bliss, Trend gives a matter-of-fact assessment of the gifts and failings of briefly noted but ultimately less successful composers such as Cyril Scott, Granville Bantock, Balfour Gardiner, and Ethel Smyth, as well as those whose reputation is now beginning to revive, such as E.J. Moeran and Ivor Gurney. He reviews without excess the bizarre stories of Peter Warlock and Percy Grainger, and makes the inevitable sad reference to the lost talents of George Butterworth and the even more obscure William Hurlstone. He discusses the failure of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor to fulfil his early promise, and the success of William Walton in outgrowing his early role as enfant terrible. Throughout, he assesses the contribution to English music of the twin urges of tradition and rebellion, and the succession which led each generation of rebels to become the bedrock for the next, and he considers the social changes which drove the success or failure of many 20th-century musical movements and careers, especially the increasing professionalization of music-making.;

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The music makers : the English musical renaissance from Elgar to Britten / Michael Trend.

Author/creator	Trend, Michael
Format	Book
Edition	1st American edition.
Publication Info	New York : Schirmer Books, 1985.
Description	xvii, 268 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects	Music--England. --19th century. --History and criticism. Music--England. --20th century. --History and criticism.

Contents	The English musical Renaissance: a nest of singing birds -- The English environment: Elgar, Delius -- Traditions, old and new: Hurlstone, Coleridge-Taylor, Boughton, Holbrooke -- Shifting horizons: Bantock, Brian, Davies, Smyth -- Heirs and rebels: Vaughan Williams, Holst, Butterworth -- Holding the middle ground: Bax, Ireland, Bridge -- The Frankfurt gang: Gardiner, O'Neill, Quilter, Scott, Grainger -- The shock of the new: Bliss, Walton, Lambert, Berners, Warlock, Moeran -- Traditions, new and old: Gurney, Howells, Bush, Rubbra, Finzi, Orr -- Rebels and heirs: Tippett, Britten.
Abstract	This book is valuable for its attempt to show English composers in their context, in both the musical world and the wider context of English society. This provides a useful perspective that is necessarily lacking, or at least peripheral, in biographies of single composers such as Elgar or Vaughan Williams, and also allows coverage of minor figures who may never receive full biographical coverage, such as Joseph Holbrooke or C.W. Orr. It shows a little of how the English musical renaissance which began with Elgar had its roots both in the Victorian age of Parry and Stanford and in the sincere and generally unchauvinistic musical nationalism of the later 19th and early 20th century. It tracks the development of individual talents within this milieu, showing the personal relationships which supported it. Alongside the (necessarily brief) discussion of major figures such as Elgar, Vaughan Williams, Holst, Bax, and Bliss, Trend gives a matter-of-fact assessment of the gifts and failings of briefly noted but ultimately less successful composers such as Cyril Scott, Granville Bantock, Balfour Gardiner, and Ethel Smyth, as well as those whose reputation is now beginning to revive, such as E.J. Moeran and Ivor Gurney. He reviews without excess the bizarre stories of Peter Warlock and Percy Grainger, and makes the inevitable sad reference to the lost talents of George Butterworth and the even more obscure William Hurlstone. He discusses the failure of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor to fulfil his early promise, and the success of William Walton in outgrowing his early role as enfant terrible. Throughout, he assesses the contribution to English music of the twin urges of tradition and rebellion, and the succession which led each generation of rebels to become the bedrock for the next, and he considers the social changes which drove the success or failure of many 20th-century musical movements and careers, especially the increasing professionalization of music-making.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (pages 246-253) and index.
LCCN	85019797
ISBN	0028730909

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