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| ISBN | 1846098793 | | Publication date | 01 Mar 2007 | | ISBN13 | 9781846098796
(What's this?) | | DEWEY | 780.942 | | Publisher | Omnibus Press | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | | Imprint | Wise Publications | | Published in | London | | Format | Paperback | | Academic level | General, Professional / Scholarly |
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This is an intriguing work very clearly written with some interesting and challenging ideas. It covers the whole range of what could be called English music from the Tudors to Tippett. However there are two problems first the author never really establishes an effcetive definition of 'Englishness'in relation to music second there is an imbalance in treatment - Britten gets a whole chapter, Bax a sentence, Walton a paragraph, and Elgar a detiled study of 'Falstaff' and not much else. Whatever characteristics an English composer displays seesm to be taken as criteria for the definition, which amounts to a circular argument. Treated with the above in mind the work is a very readable summary of English music composition - Carl Newton Write a review
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