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Marking the fiftieth anniversary of the death of Aldous Huxley (1894-1963), Temporaries and Eternals focuses on the music column that Huxley wrote for The Weekly Westminster Gazette in 1922-23. Readers of Huxley's novels, essays and travel writing will be aware of the wealth of musical detail in these works, and this book suggests that such references can only be fully understood in the context of the opinions voiced in Huxley's music criticism. Not only does Huxley's column offer a fascinati...

Musical criticism --- Hermeneutics (Music) --- Music criticism --- Journalism --- Music --- History --- History and criticism --- Huxley, Aldous, --- Huxley, Aldous Leonard --- Huxley, Aldous --- Huxley, Aldous Leonard, --- Khŭksli, Oldŭs, --- Хъксли, Олдъс, --- Khaksli, Oldos, --- Хаксли, Олдос, --- Хаксли, О. --- האקסליי, אלדוס, --- הקסלי, אלדוס, --- Knowledge --- Music.

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Despite several recent monographs, editions and recordings devoted to the reassessment of British music in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, some negative perceptions still remain - particularly a sense that British composers in this period somehow lacked literary credentials. ‘British Music and Literary Context’ counters this perception by showing that these composers displayed a real confidence and assurance in refiguring literary texts in their music. The book explores how literary context might offer modern audiences and listeners a 'way in' to appreciate specific works that have traditionally been viewed as problematic. Each chapter of this interdisciplinary study juxtaposes a British composer with a particular literary counterpart or genre. Chapter one focuses upon the artistic collaboration between Hubert Parry and Robert Bridges; chapter two explores how Charles Villiers Stanford consistently returned to Tennyson's texts throughout his compositional career; chapters three and four suggest how an orchestral drama by Granville Bantock might represent a close reading of a poem by Robert Browning, and how structure and imagery in a novel by Edward Bulwer Lytton might inform a reading of Edward Elgar's Piano Quintet Op.84. The final chapter offers parallels between narrative strategies in Victorian travel literature (including works by Charles Dickens and George Gissing) and the nature of musical events in Elgar's concert overture ‘In the South’ Op.50. Issues highlighted in the book include the vexed relationship between words and music, the refiguring of literary narratives as musical structures, and the ways in which musical settings or representations of literary texts might be seen as critical 'readings' of those texts. Anyone interested in nineteenth century British music, literature and Victorian studies will find this book most stimulating. Michael Allis is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Music, University of Leeds.

Music --- Music and literature --- Literature and music --- Literature --- Art music --- Art music, Western --- Classical music --- Musical compositions --- Musical works --- Serious music --- Western art music --- Western music (Western countries) --- History and criticism. --- English literature --- English poetry --- History --- Musical settings --- British composers. --- British literature. --- British music. --- Edward Elgar. --- Tennyson. --- Victorian travel literature. --- aesthetic inspiration. --- early twentieth century. --- late nineteenth century. --- literary context. --- literary credentials. --- literary texts. --- music history.

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The Symphonic Poem in Britain 1850-1950 aims to raise the status of the genre generally and in Britain specifically, by reaffirming British composers' confidence in dealing with literary texts.

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