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Genre/Form: | Music Criticism, interpretation, etc |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Colles, H.C. (Henry Cope), 1879-1943. Essays and lectures. London, New York, Oxford University Press [cl945] (OCoLC)593037921 |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
H C Colles |
ISBN: | 0836919106 9780836919103 |
OCLC Number: | 1352414 |
Notes: | Includes index. |
Description: | vii, 223, [1] pages : music, portrait ; 23 cm |
Contents: | Some English musicians. A master of song ; John Dowland ; Musical London from the restoration to Handel ; Purcell restored ; Lully and Purcell ; That pick-pocket opera ; Parry as song writer ; The modern symphony ; A pastoral symphony ; Vaughan William's progress ; "Sir John in love" ; Job : a masque ; "Five Tudor portraits" ; Contrasts and blends -- The opera. A classical modernist ; Verdi at work ; Design and purpose ; Opera and the time machine -- Church music. John Merbecke ; A hint from William Byrd ; Samuel Sebastian Wesley ; Church music ; The Cathedral service ; The parochial ideal ; Joy in music -- General. Substance and style ; Vienna's music ; A musical scholar ; Who is Bach? ; Beethoven's finales ; The Ninth Symphony ; An American critic ; Mozart in musical life to-day ; A postscript : Mozart's tunes -- H.C.C. : a memoir by H.J.C. |
Series Title: | Essay index reprint series |
Responsibility: | H.C. Colles ; with a memoir of the author by H.J.C. |
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