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A Chronicle of First Broadcast Performances of Musical Works in the United Kingdom, 1923-1996
Language: en
Pages: 575
Authors: Alastair Mitchell
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-06-04 - Publisher: Routledge

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First published in 2001, this work provides detailed information taken from the ’Programmes-as-Broadcast’ daily log of output held at the BBC Written Archiv
British Musical Modernism
Language: en
Pages: 507
Authors: Philip Ernst Rupprecht
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-07-09 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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The first in-depth historical analysis of British art music post-1945, providing a group-portrait of eleven composers ranging from avant-garde to pop.
Art and Ideology in European Opera
Language: en
Pages: 434
Authors: Rachel Cowgill
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010 - Publisher: Boydell & Brewer

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Opera, that most extravagant of the performing arts, is infused with the contexts of power-brokering and cultural display in which it was conceived and experien
The Life and Music of Eric Coates
Language: en
Pages: 296
Authors: Michael Payne
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-03-03 - Publisher: Routledge

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Eric Coates (1886-1957) is perhaps the most familiar name associated with British light music. Sir Charles Groves said that 'his music crackled with enthusiasm
Kenneth Leighton
Language: en
Pages: 249
Authors: Carolyn J. Smith
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004-11-15 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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Kenneth Leighton, best known for his organ and sacred choral music, was a composer of great depth and talent who wrote a significant body of works. Many of thos