Elgar: An Extraordinary Life

• How did the son of a provincial piano tuner rise to international fame? Was the English countryside the principal inspiration for Elgar's music? Was t... Lees meer

The Quilting Points of Musical Modernism

J P E Harper-Scott

• Hardcover | Engels | Music in Context
• Modernism is both a contested aesthetic category and a powerful political statement. Modernist music was condemned as degenerate by the Nazis and forc... Lees meer

Edward Elgar, Modernist

J P E Harper-Scott

• Hardcover | Engels | Music in the Twentieth Century | nr. 20
• The first full-length analytical study of Edward Elgar's music, this book argues that Elgar was a modernist composer, and that his music constitutes a... Lees meer

The Quilting Points of Musical Modernism

J P E Harper-Scott

• Paperback | Engels | Music in Context
• Modernism is both a contested aesthetic category and a powerful political statement. Modernist music was condemned as degenerate by the Nazis and forc... Lees meer

The Event of Music History

J P E Harper-Scott

• Paperback | Engels
• Brings musicology to the cutting edge of debates in the postmodern philosophy of history. This book presents a new theory of how to write music histor... Lees meer

Ideology in Britten's Operas

J P E Harper-Scott

• Hardcover | Engels | Music Since 1900
• This thematic examination of Britten's operas focuses on the way that ideology is presented on stage. To watch or listen is to engage with a vivid art... Lees meer

Edward Elgar, Modernist

J P E Harper-Scott

• Paperback | Engels | Music in the Twentieth Century | nr. 20
• The first full-length analytical study of Edward Elgar's music, this book argues that Elgar was a modernist composer, and that his music constitutes a... Lees meer