CONTEMPORARY BRITISH MUSIC

The Twenty-Five Years from 1945 to 1970

By

FRANCIS ROUTH
(First published 1972)

 

CONTENTS

Preface

I Introduction - British music up to 1939

II The establishment of a tradition

1 William Walton

2 Alan Rawsthorne

3 William Alwyn

4 Edmund Rubbra

5 Arnold Cooke

III The development of a tradition

6 Humphrey Searle

7 Denis ApIvor

8 Thea Musgrave

9 Don Banks

IV British by choice. The influence of other traditions

10 Franz Reizenstein

11 Matyas Seiber

12 Egon Wellesz

13 Roberto Gerhard

14 Andrzej Panufnik

V The evolution of a tradition

15 Benjamin Britten

16 Peter Maxwell Davies

17 Peter Racine Fricker

18 Anthony Milner

19 Michael Tippett

VI The contemporary scene

20 Electronic Music and the Avant-Garde

21 Serialism and Romanticism

22 Lennox Berkeley and Priaulx Rainier

23 Teacher/Composers

VII Appendices (not included in this web version)

VIII Select Bibliography (not included in this web version)

 

Note

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First published by Macdonald London (1972) SBN 356 03773 8

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