Parry to Finzi

Parry to Finzi
Author: Trevor Hold
Publisher: Boydell Press
Total Pages: 484
Release: 2005
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781843831747

"Each chapter begins with a discussion of its composer's song-output and of the poets and poetry he sets, and goes on to give an account of the influences on him and the hallmarks of his style; the songs are then discussed in detail, focusing on the major works. The text is illustrated with musical examples and there is a comprehensive bibliography and index"--Jacket.

John Ireland: A Catalogue, Discography and Bibliography

John Ireland: A Catalogue, Discography and Bibliography
Author: Professor Stewart R Craggs
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2013-01-28
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1409493660

John Ireland (1879-1962) was one of the leading composers of the English Musical Renaissance at the end of the nineteenth century and beginning of the twentieth century. Born of literary parents in Bowdon, near Manchester, he went to London at the age of fourteen to study at the newly-founded Royal College of Music where he eventually became a pupil of Charles Villiers Stanford. Among his near contemporaries at the College were Ralph Vaughan Williams, Gustav Holst, Thomas Dunhill, William Y. Hurlstone, Henry Walford Davies and Samuel Coleridge-Taylor. Ireland is best known for his songs (such as Sea Fever, The Bells of San Marie and the cycle of Housman settings, The Land of Lost Content), his piano and chamber music, his church music and his relatively small number of choral, orchestral and brass band works. This catalogue of Ireland's compositions, a revised and enlarged edition of the one published in 1993 by the Clarendon Press (Oxford University Press), in association with the John Ireland Trust, lists his compositions from 1895 to 1961. Full details are given of dates of composition; people or bodies responsible for a work's commission; instrumentation; first performance; publications; location of the autograph manuscript; critical comment in the bibliography from the contemporary press and music journals, and recordings on compact disc. Appended is a general bibliography and classified index of main works. A list of personalia supplies details of people connected with Ireland and his music during his lifetime.

London

London
Author: Lewis Foreman
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 390
Release: 2005-01-01
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780300104028

The essential companion to musical London