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  • The Sea in the British Musical Imagination

    by Eric Saylor, Frances Wilkins, James Brooks Kuykendall, Jennifer Oates, Jenny Doctor, Justin Vickers, Louis Niebur, Christopher Scheer, Aidan Thomson0, Alyson McLamore1, Amanda Eubanks Winkler2, Byron Adams3, Charles Edward McGuire4 ...
    For centuries, the sea and those who sail upon it have inspired the imaginations of British musicians. Generations of British artists have viewed the ocean as a metaphor for the mutable human condition - by turns calm and reflective, tempestuous and destructive - and have been influenced as much by its physical presence as by its musical potential. But just as geographical perspectives and ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

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  • Benjamin Britten

    A Life in the Twentieth Century

    by Paul Kildea ...
    Published to mark the beginning of the Britten centenary year in 2013, Paul Kildea's Benjamin Britten: A Life in the Twentieth Century is the definitive biography of Britain's greatest modern composer.In the eyes of many, Benjamin Britten was our finest composer since Purcell (a figure who often inspired him) three hundred years earlier. He broke decisively with the romantic, nationalist school of ... Read more

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  • Folk Song in England

    by Steve Roud ...
    In Victorian times, England was famously dubbed the land without music - but one of the great musical discoveries of the early twentieth century was that England had a vital heritage of folk song and music which was easily good enough to stand comparison with those of other parts of Britain and overseas. Cecil Sharp, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Percy Grainger, and a number of other enthusiasts ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • Sounds in the Silent Air

    by David Borrill ...
    'Sounds in the silent air' takes it title from a song by Ivor Gurney (1890 –1937). He was one of a number of English composers who fought in the First World War, alongside Arthur Bliss and Ralph Vaughan Williams. How did their experience affect the music they wrote and what impact did it have on their creative soul? This eBook reflects on these issues.Selected works by Gurney, Bliss and Vaughan ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Music: Ideas in Profile

    by Andrew Gant ...
    Series series Ideas in Profile - small books, big ideas
    Ideas in Profile SeriesIs music a science or an art? It's both, as Andrew Gant reveals in this lively and accessible account of what music is and what it's for. Music has been central to life since the dawn of humankind and is intimately bound up with the origins of language.Andrew Gant introduces us to its long history and its many genres and manifestations. He explains how composers compose, ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Letters from a Life Vol 1: 1923-39

    Selected Letters and Diaries of Benjamin Britten

    by Benjamin Britten ...
    Volume One of these remarkable letters and diaries opens with a letter from Britten aged nine to his formidable mother, Edith. Music is already at the centre of his life, and it accompanies him through prep and public school and then to London to the Royal College of Music, where the phenomenally gifted but inexperienced young composer is plunged into metropolitan life and makes influential new ... Read more

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  • Britten's Children

    by John Bridcut ...
    Britten's Children confronts the edgy subject of the composer's obsessional yet strangely innocent relationships with adolescent boys. One of the hallmarks of Benjamin Britten's music is his use of boys' voices, and John Bridcut uses this to create a fresh prism through which to view the composer's life. Interweaving discussion of the music he wrote for and about children with interviews with the ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • The Power of Robert Simpson

    A Biography

    by Donald Macauley ...
    Robert Simpson (1921-1997) is widely regarded as the most important British composer in the generation following Benjamin Britten. He wrote 11 symphonies, 15 string quartets, much other chamber music and works for brass band. He also wrote definitive studies of Bruckner and Nielsen. A committed socialist and pacifist, Simpson worked as a volunteer on a mobile surgical unit during the London blitz. ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Edward Elgar

    Music, Life and Landscapes

    by Christopher Grogan ...
    The first full-length study of the English composer's complex interaction with his physical environment, and its new relevance in the 21st century.More perhaps than any other composer, Edward Elgar (1857-1934) has gained the status of an "icon of locality," his music seemingly inextricably linked to the English landscape in which he worked. This, the first full-length study of Elgar's complex ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Cambridge Companion to Benjamin Britten

    Edited by Mervyn Cooke ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Music
    The Cambridge Companion to Benjamin Britten is a comprehensive guide to the composer's work, aimed both at the non-specialist and music student. It sheds light on both the composer's stylistic and personal development, offering new interpretations of his operatic works and discussing his characteristic working methods. Topics treated here in detail for the first time include Britten's work in the ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Britten's Century

    Celebrating 100 Years of Britten

    Edited by Mark Bostridge ...
    2013 marks the centenary of the birth of Benjamin Britten. Here is an outstanding collection of essays to mark the event.Britten's Century considers various aspects of Britten's life and work. The book is written by biographers, performers and music critics. Here is a wealth of subject matter - Britten's operatic output, his orchestral works, his contribution to the revival of English song ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Edward Elgar and His World

    Edited by Byron Adams ...
    Series series The Bard Music Festival
    Edward Elgar (1857-1934) is undoubtedly one of the most fascinating, important, and influential figures in the history of British music. He rose from humble beginnings and achieved fame with music that to this day is beloved by audiences in England, and his work has secured an enduring legacy worldwide. Leading scholars examine the composer's life in Edward Elgar and His World, presenting a ... Read more

    $48.39 CAD