Folk Song in England: A. L. Lloyd
A seminal work by one of the most influential figures of the English folk revival of the 1950s, Folk Song in England (1967) is an expansive account of the development of English traditional song, from the very oldest, ritual verse, through epic balladry, to the development of lyrical song in the industrial era.
In a unique and ambitious approach, Lloyd marries the tradition of folk-song scholarship, largely derived from Cecil Sharp, with the radical historiography of E. P. Thompson, and in so doing produces a work of exceptional insight. In particular, his defining of ‘industrial folk song’ reveals traditional verse as an ebullient, living expression of the working people, perfectly adaptable to reflect their ways and conditions of life. More
Anatomy of the Orchestra: Norman Del Mar
The first edition (1981) of Anatomy of the Orchestra, Norman Del Mar’s renowned treatise and study of orchestral practice, sold out within a year of its publication. Del Mar (1919-1994), ... More
Richard Strauss: Norman Del Mar
A masterly, three-volume critical study of the life and work of the great composer Richard Strauss. More
Richard Strauss: Norman Del Mar
Norman Del Mar (1919-1994) was universally recognised as a leading authority on the music of Richard Strauss, and his masterly three-volume study of his life and works remains a classic.Volume ... More
Richard Strauss: Norman Del Mar
Norman Del Mar (1919-1994) was universally recognised as a leading authority on the music of Richard Strauss, and his masterly three-volume study of his life and works remains a classic.Volume ... More
Stravinsky: Selected Correspondence Volume 2: Robert Craft
In this second volume of Igor Stravinsky’s correspondence - selected and annotated by his friend and associate Robert Craft - we are given a wealth of material relating to the composer’s ... More
Cecil Sharp: Maud Karpeles
Others came before and after him but no person is more strongly associated with the revival of English folk song and dance at the turn of the twentieth-century than Cecil ... More
The Balcony: Jean Genet
Jean Genet’s The Balcony, which premiered in 1957, has come to be recognised as one of the founding plays of modern theatre, and is what the philosopher Lucien Goldmann has ... More
The Screens: Jean Genet
The Screens is the last of Genet’s plays to be performed during his lifetime. Its subject is the Algerian War of Independence, and it is an intricately crafted, grandiose construction ... More
The Ordeal of Ivor Gurney: Michael Hurd
First published in 1978 The Ordeal of Ivor Gurney includes a wealth of previously unpublished material and is a moving and extraordinary account of a tragic genius - composer and poet. More
Stravinsky: Selected Correspondence Volume 3: Robert Craft
At the centre of this third and final volume of letters to and from Igor Stravinsky is four decades of the composer’s correspondence with his publishers. Stravinsky’s letters to Schotts ... More
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