William Sterndale Bennett : 1816-1875 : Three Symphonies.

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Epic brass : British music for brass band.

Table of Contents: “…epic symphony…”
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Conductor's gallery; biographical sketches of well-known orchestral conductors, by Brook, Donald

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Great British orchestral classics.

Table of Contents: “…"Playful pizzicato" from Simple symphony, for string orchestra, op. 4 /…”
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Edmund Rubbra : symphonist / by Black, Leo

Table of Contents: “…The early years -- 3. The first four symphonies -- 4. The fifth symphony -- 5. A question of mysticism--I -- 6. …”
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Edmund Rubbra : symphonist / by Black, Leo

Table of Contents: “…The early years -- 3. The first four symphonies -- 4. The fifth symphony -- 5. A question of mysticism--I -- 6. …”
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The orchestral music of Michael Tippett : creative development and the compositional process / by Schuttenhelm, Thomas

Table of Contents: “…Symphonic Movement (1930-1) and the Symphony in B-flat (1933-4) -- Concerto for Double String Orchestra (1938-9) -- Fantasia on a Theme of Handel (1939-41) -- Symphony No. 1 (1944-5) -- Little Music for String Orchestra (1946) -- Suite in D (for the Birthday of Prince Charles) (1948) -- Fantasia Concertante on a Theme of Corelli (1953) -- Divertimento on 'Sellinger's Round' (1953-4) -- Piano Concerto (1953-5) -- Symphony No. 2 (1956-7) -- Praeludium for Brass, Bells and Percussion (1962) -- Concerto for Orchestra (1962-3) -- Symphony No. 3 (1970-2) -- Symphony No. 4 (1976-7) -- Triple Concerto (1978-9) -- The Rose Lake (1991-3).…”
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Rule Britannia /

Table of Contents: “…Trumpet aire ; Symphony of flatt trumpits / Jeremiah Clarke -- Mr. …”
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The sea in the British musical imagination /

Table of Contents: “…Scheer -- 'Come away, fellow sailors' : musical characterization of the nautical profession in seventeenth-century England / Amanda Eubanks Winkler -- Jolly Jack Tar : musical caricature and characterization of the British sailor, c. 1875-1925 / James Brooks Kuykendall -- Fishers of men : maritime radio and evangelical hymnody in the Scottish fishing industry, 1950-65 / Frances Wilkins -- Amanuensis of the sea : Peter Maxwell Davies's Symphonies nos. 1 and 2 and the Antarctic symphony / Justin Vickers -- Three journeys. …”
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The Orchestral Music of Michael Tippett : Creative Development and the Compositional Process. by Schuttenhelm, Thomas

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Half-title page; Series page; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Figures; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; The creative condition; The creative cycle; Interpreting Tippett; 1 Symphonic Movement (1930-1) and the Symphony in B-flat (1933-4); Symphonic prologues; Becoming a composer; Symphonic Movement (1930-1); Symphony in B-flat (1933-4); 2 Concerto for Double String Orchestra (1938-9); A 'new Einstellung'; Sonata and syzygy: first movement; Separation and estrangement: second movement; Vision -- revision and a new-found confidence: third movement.…”
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Imperium of the soul : the political and aesthetic imagination of Edwardian imperialists / by Etherington, Norman

Table of Contents: “…Rider Haggard, imperialism and the layered personality -- Love and loathing: Rudyard Kipling's India -- How Herbert Baker created an architecture of imperial power -- Joseph Conrad: Kipling's secret sharer -- Elgar and the Gordon Symphony -- John Buchan and the loathly opposite -- Lawrence of Arabia: great white hope of the Edwardian imperial romancers.…”

Literature in the dawn of sociological theory : stories that are telling / by MacMillen, Sarah

Table of Contents: “…Literature in the Dawn of Sociological Theory -- New England Shadows: Hawthorne, Faust, and the American Spiritual Character -- Moby Dick as Modern Epic: "Symphony" in a Broken Ontology -- Literary Metanoia and the Sociological Imagination in Joseph Conrad: Colonialism and Western Idealism -- Women and Men: The Tragicomic -- Suspending Modernity: Gender and History in Virginia Woolf's Orlando -- The Absurd Christian: The Sociological Imagination of Dostoevsky -- Conclusion: Stories in the Dawn of Capitalism - Crisis and Narrative in Boccaccio's Decameron.…”

Elgar's earnings / by Drysdale, John D.

Table of Contents: “…Ltd -- Enoch & Sons -- Keith Prowse -- Other Music Publishers -- 6 Royalties and Copyrights on Elgar's Major Works -- Enigma Variations -- The Dream of Gerontius -- The Apostles -- The Kingdom -- Symphony No. 1 -- Violin Concerto -- Symphony No. 2 -- Cello Concerto -- 7 Elgar's Performing Fees and George Bernard Shaw -- Novello and the PRS -- Symphony No. 1 -- Violin Concerto -- Symphony No. 2 -- Falstaff -- Cello Concerto -- Boosey, the PRS and Elgar -- Elgar and the PRS -- Elkin, the PRS and Elgar -- George Bernard Shaw -- Shaw as Publisher -- Shaw and America -- Shaw the Businessman -- Shaw and his Earnings -- 8 Elgar's Earnings from Broadcasting, Recording and Conducting -- Broadcasting Fees -- The BBC and the PRS -- The PRS, the BBC and Elgar -- Novello, the BBC and Elgar -- Boosey, the BBC and Elgar -- Elkin, the BBC and Elgar -- Recording: Mechanical Fees and Royalties -- Elgar and The Gramophone Co. -- Conducting Fees -- The Early Years to 1899 -- The Period 1900 to 1913 -- The War Period 1914 to 1918 -- The Period 1919 to 1934 -- Summary -- 9 A Matter of Wills -- 10 Epilogue -- Appendix: Bank of England, Inflation Calculator -- Bibliography -- Index -- Backcover.…”
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British music, musicians and institutions, c. 1630-1800 : essays in honour of Harry Diack Johnstone /

Table of Contents: “…Henry, Elizabeth, and George: new light on music at Wilton House in the 1770s / Peter Holman -- Wilhelm Cramer, the professional concert, and the foundation of the modern symphony orchestra / Simon McVeigh -- Thomas Vincent (1723-1798): oboist, composer, and entrepreneur / Michael Tolbot -- J.C. …”
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Carnival time! /

Table of Contents: “…Blues in the night (03:13) -- This is no laughing matter (03:17) -- Getting nowhere (03:23) -- Tenement symphony (03:28) -- Goodnight good neighbour (03:32) -- Taps miller (03:25) -- That lovely weekend (03:28) -- Don't sweetheart me (02:47) -- October twilight (03:04) -- Can't you read between the lines (03:07) -- San Fernando Valley (02:53) -- Deed I do (02:53) -- Carnival time (02:49) -- If this isn't love (03:04) -- I don't want to set the word on fire (03:15) -- Another day (03:15) -- Comin' thru the rye (03:29) -- Zip-a-dee-doo-dah (02:04) -- The old lamplighter (03:24) -- The galloping comedians (03:06).…”
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Music and Victorian liberalism : composing the liberal subject /

Table of Contents: “…Style, character and revelation in Parry's Fourth symphony / Matthew Riley ; The Parrys and Prometheus unbound : actualizing liberalism / Phyllis Weliver ; Liberalism and Victorian musical sympathy / Bennett Zon ; Music and character in the Victorian reception of Wagner : conducting the Philharmonic ca. 1855 / Katherine Fry -- Afterword. …”
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British music, musicians and institutions, c.1630-1800 : essays in honour of Harry Diack Johnstone / by Lynan, Peter, Rushton, Julian

Table of Contents: “…Wilhelm Cramer, the Professional Concert, and the Foundation of the Modern Symphony Orchestra -- <i>Simon McVeigh</i><br>3. Thomas Vincent (1723-1798): Oboist, Composer, and Entrepreneur -- <i>Michael Talbot</i><br>4. …”
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British musical criticism and intellectual thought, 1850-1950 /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Trends in British musical thought, 1850-1950 / Jeremy Dibble and Julian Horton -- Avoiding "coarse invective" and "unseemly vehemence" : English music criticism, 1850-1870 / Peter Horton -- Spencer, sympathy and the Oxford school of music criticism / Bennett Zon -- Free thought and the musician : Ernest Walker, the "English Hanslick" / Jeremy Dibble -- Ernest Newman and the promise of method in biography, criticism and history / Paul Watt -- "Making symphony articulate" : Bernard Shaw's sense of music history / Harry White -- Analysis and value judgment : Schumann, Bruckner and Tovey's Essays in musical analysis / Julian Horton -- The scholar as critic : Edward J. …”
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Toscanini in Britain / by Dyment, Christopher

Table of Contents: “…. ; 1920: Toscanini returns to La Scala; London doldrums; The New York Philharmonic's European tour -- the Maestro ascendant; 2 The New york Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra bound for Europe 1930; 3 Erich Kleiber greets Toscanini, Berlin, May 1930.…”
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BBC Proms. by Arne, Thomas Augustine, 1710-1778, Thomson, James, 1700-1748

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