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Elgar the Music Maker
Diana McVeagh
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Description for Elgar the Music Maker
Hardcover. An expert and informative appraisal of all of Elgar's works - from his juvenilia to the unfinished 3rd symphony - by the author of the acclaimed Gerald Finzi. Num Pages: 264 pages, 12, 12 black & white illustrations, 12 black and white. BIC Classification: AVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 205 x 135 x 26. Weight in Grams: 412. 264 pages, 12, 12 black and white. Explores Elgar's complex personality and his compositional methods, his style and his relationship to his contemporaries. This book focuses on the music - still played, recorded, loved and discussed as much as ever. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: AVH. Dimension: 205 x 135 x 26. Weight: 428.
An expert and informative appraisal of all of Elgar's works - from his juvenilia to the unfinished 3rd symphony - by the author of the acclaimed Gerald Finzi. The new Diana McVeagh book on Elgar is first-rate, wrote Gerald Finzi of her earlier study of the composer, published in 1955. In the completely new Elgar the Music Maker she harvests five decades of thoughts about his music, scrutinizing the biographical details that have since been discovered and using them to assess the ways in which they affect the compositions. Diana McVeagh explores Elgar's complex personality and his compositional ... Read more
An expert and informative appraisal of all of Elgar's works - from his juvenilia to the unfinished 3rd symphony - by the author of the acclaimed Gerald Finzi. The new Diana McVeagh book on Elgar is first-rate, wrote Gerald Finzi of her earlier study of the composer, published in 1955. In the completely new Elgar the Music Maker she harvests five decades of thoughts about his music, scrutinizing the biographical details that have since been discovered and using them to assess the ways in which they affect the compositions. Diana McVeagh explores Elgar's complex personality and his compositional ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Boydell Press
Number of pages
264
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
Woodbridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781843832959
SKU
V9781843832959
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99-50
About Diana McVeagh
DIANA MCVEAGH is a Vice-President of the Elgar Society. Her interests range from Josquin to Birtwistle, but she writes mostly about English Romantics. She is the author of Elgar: His Life and Music (Dent, 1955), and the highly acclaimed Gerald Finzi: His Life and Music (Boydell, 2005 and 2010), and Elgar: The Music Maker (Boydell, 2007). She has contributed to ... Read more
Reviews for Elgar the Music Maker
Deserves to be read widely, and we should be grateful to Diana McVeagh for producing an immensely readable and always wise handbook to Elgar's oeuvre.
MUSIC & LETTERS
The analysis...is observation, discovery of what this music is. You're led to it by feeling, and back to feeling it returns. That is the essential way of good music criticism, ... Read more
MUSIC & LETTERS
The analysis...is observation, discovery of what this music is. You're led to it by feeling, and back to feeling it returns. That is the essential way of good music criticism, ... Read more