British Music and Modernism, 1895 Book

List of Illustrations

List of Figures and Tables

List of Music Examples

Notes on Contributors

Introduction Matthew Riley Riley, Matthew 1

1 Liberal Critics and Modern Music in the Post-Victorian Age Matthew Riley Riley, Matthew 13

2 áA thoroughgoing modern': Elgar Reception in the Manchester Guardian, 1896-1908 Meirion Hughes Hughes, Meirion 31

3 Schoenberg, Roger Fry and the Emergence of a Critical Language for the Reception of Musical Modernism in Britain, 1912-1914 Deborah Heckert Heckert, Deborah 49

4 Modernism, Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes in London, 1911-1929 Gareth Thomas Thomas, Gareth 67

5 Modern Maritime Pastoral: Wave Deformations in the Music of Frank Bridge Stephen Downes Downes, Stephen 93

6 áA direct and intimate realization': Holst and Formalism in the 1920s Christopher M. Scheer Scheer, Christopher M. 109

7 Facades for Facade: William Walton, Visual Culture and English Modernism in the Sitwell Circle Tim Barringer Barringer, Tim 125

8 Landscape and Distance: Vaughan Williams, Modernism and the Symphonic Pastoral Daniel M. Grimley Grimley, Daniel M. 147

9 Vaughan Williams's Antic Symphony J.P.E. Harper-Scott Harper-Scott, J. P. E. 175

10 Hindemith's Disciple in London: Walter Leigh on Modern Music, 1932-40 Thomas Irvine Irvine, Thomas 197

11 Benjamin Britten's áPierrot' Ensembles Christopher Dromey Dromey, Christopher 221

12 Music for the Machines of the Future: H.G. Wells, Arthur Bliss and Things to Come (1936) Matthew Riley Riley, Matthew 249

13 Early Music and the Ambivalent Origins of Elisabeth Lutyens's Modernism Laurel Parsons Parsons, Laurel 269

14 áThe real thing-at last'? Historicizing Humphrey Searle Ben Earle Earle, Ben 293

Index 327