| Contents |
Early life -- Early works -- Butterworth and Housman -- Butterworth and the folksong revival -- A Shropshire Lad rhapsody and other works -- Butterworth and Vaughan Williams -- Appendices. Folksongs and Morris dances collected by Butterworth -- Butterworth's writings -- The songs and dances in A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Savoy theatre -- Vaughan Williams' London Symphony. |
| Abstract |
This is the first full-length study of the life and music of the composer George Butterworth (1885-1916), whose career was cut short by a sniper's bullet at the Somme. He was perhaps the finest of the many outstanding musical talents whose lives were claimed by the First World War. The music Butterworth managed to compose in the short time he had showed an exceptional talent, and his name is kept alive by the popularity of his orchestral tone-poems, such as The Banks of Green Willow and A Shropshire Lad, and his songs. |
| General note | "Catalogue of Butterworth's music": pages 137-143. |
| Bibliography note | Includes discography (pages 172-179), bibliographical references (pages 180-183), and indexes. |
| LCCN | 99187961 |
| ISBN | 0907689426 |
| ISBN | 0907689434 (pbk.) |
