Parry Before Jerusalem: Studies of His Life and Music with Excerpts from His Published Writings

ISBN-13: 9781138332843 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 233 str.

Bernard Benoliel

Opis

First published in 1997, this volume shows that through his activities as a composer, historian, lecturer and administrator, Sir Hubert Parry played a significant role in British music during the latter half of the nineteenth century. concluding with a selection of Parry’s own published writings,

Spis treści

Part 1. Parry before Jerusalem. 1. Formulation of a Creative Personality. 2. Lady Maude. 3. The Ambivalent Road to Dr Parry and Sir Hubert. 4. ‘Beethoven’s business’ – Parry the Symphonic Composer. 5. What Shaw Understood. 6. ‘As befits an Englishman and a democrat’ – the Creation of a Modern Choral-Orchestral Tradition. 7. The Soul’s Ransom - Parry and the Ethical Cantata Concept. 8. The People who Knew Parry – and the People Parry Knew. 9. The Lat Journey to Jerusalem. Part 2. Selected Published Writings of Hubert Parry. 10. Contributions to Grove’s A Dictionary of Music and Musicians: Symphony. 11. Studies of Great Composers: Robert Schumann. 12. The Evolution of the Art of Music. 13. The Music of the Seventeenth Century. 14. Johann Sebastian Bach: the St Matthew Passion. 15. Style in Musical Art.

O autorze

Bernard Benoliel