String quartets / by Onslow, Georges, 1784-1853

Table of Contents: “…String quartet in F sharp minor, op. 46, no. 1 (31:29) -- String quartet in C minor, op. 56 (27:53) -- Variations on God save the King : from String quartet in g minor, op. 9, no. 1 (9:31).…”
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Lionel Tertis : the first great virtuoso of the viola / by White, John, 1938-2013

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British music after Britten / by Whittall, Arnold

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Britten and British music -- Tippett and twentieth-century polarities -- A voyage beyond romance : the music of Nicholas Maw -- Connections and constellations : Robin Holloway and Brian Ferneyhough -- Richard Barrett, Cornelius Cardew : resistance and reflection -- Shock waves : the musical elements of James Dillon -- Northern roots : John Casken, Hugh Wood, John McCabe -- Affirmative anger : James Clarke and the music of abstract expressionism -- Distressed surfaces : Morgan Hayes and twenty-first-century expressionism -- 'Into the breach' : Oliver Knussen in his time -- Rotations and reflections : the musical presence of George Benjamin -- Michael Finnissy's instrumental music drama -- The public and the personal : Birtwistle and Maxwell Davies at 80 -- Measures of authenticity : the macrotonal music of Julian Anderson -- From post-tonal to postmodern? : two string quartets by Joseph Phibbs -- The Ades effect -- Power, potential : Robert Simpson, Mark Simpson -- Michael Tippett and the modern musical citizen.…”
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Benjamin britten in context /

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Music in the British provinces, 1690-1914 /

Table of Contents: “…"A pretty knot of musical friends" : the Ferrar brothers and a Stamford music club in the 1690s / Bryan White -- Music in the Minster Close : Edward Finch, Valentine Nalson and William Knight in early eighteenth-century York / David Griffiths -- A little light on Lorenzo Bocchi : an Italian in Edinburgh and Dublin / Peter Holman -- Joah Bates, William Herschel, and the Messiah Club : musical amateurs, artisans, and professionals in 1760s Halifax / Rachel Cowgill -- The role of gentlemen amateurs in subscription concerts in north-east England during the eighteenth century / Roz Southey -- The string quartet in eighteenth-century provincial concert life / Meredith McFarlane -- John Baptist Malchair of Oxford and his collection of national music / Susan Wollenberg -- Music of rural byway and rotten borough : a study of musical life in North Wiltshire, c. 1750-1830 / Christopher Kent -- Mr White, of Leeds / Robert Demaine -- The Larks of Dean : amateur musicians in the north of England / Sally Drage -- Finding themselves : musical revolutions in nineteenth-century Staffordshire / Sarah E. …”