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" An imperishable heritage : "
Stephen Town
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BL
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633447
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Town, Stephen,1952-
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An imperishable heritage : : British choral music from Parry to Dyson : a study of selected works /\ Stephen Town
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xxv, 327 pages :: music ;; 24 cm
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9780754605362
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: 0754605361
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: 9781409448792
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: 1409448797
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [305]-317) and index
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Hubert Parry and 'The Vision of Life' reconsidered: "And we are faint with longing to hear the message clearly" -- 'Voces Clamantium' and 'Beyond These Voices There Is Peace': The embodiment of Parry's character polarities -- Two versions of 'The Three Holy Children' by Charles Stanford: Context, design, and extant scores -- 'Elegiac Ode' by Charles Stanford: an inspired setting, influential exemplar, and filial tribute -- 'Flos Campi' by Ralph Vaughan Williams: "From raw intimations to homogeneous experience" -- "The light we sought is shining still": 'An Oxford Elegy' by Ralph Vaughan Williams -- "So great a beauty on these English fields": 'Requiem da Camera' and Gerald Finzi (1901-1956) -- "The visionary gleam": Gerald Finzi, Ralph Vaughan Williams, and 'Intimations of immortality' -- Symphony No.9, 'Sinfonia Sacra' by Edmund Rubbra -- 'The Morning Watch', Op.55 by Edmund Rubbra -- "A home of unfading splendour": 'Quo Vadis' by George Dyson (1833-1964) -- George Dyson's 'Nebuchadnezzar' and the stimulus of Parry, Stanford, and Walton
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The rehabilitation of British music began with Hubert Parry and Charles Villiers Stanford. Ralph Vaughan Williams assisted in its emancipation from continental models, while Gerald Finzi, Edmund Rubbra and George Dyson flourished in its independence. Stephen Town's survey of Choral Music of the English Musical Renaissance is rooted in close examination of selected works from these composers. Town collates the substantial secondary literature on these composers, and brings to bear his own study of the autograph manuscripts. The latter form an unparalleled record of compositional process and shed new light on the compositions as they have come down to us in their published and recorded form. This close study of the sources allows Town to identify for the first time instances of similarity and imitation, continuities and connections between the works [Publisher description]
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Choral music-- Great Britain-- 20th century
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Choral music-- Great Britain-- 19th century
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ML1531.T68 2012
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British choral music from Parry to Dyson
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