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"The music of Thomas Weelkes (1575?-1623), one of the boldest and most individual of the Elizabethan madrigal-composers, was characterized by youthful enthusiasm and vivid imagination and--like that of the great sixteenth-century Italian madrigalists who influenced him--by the use of chromaticism and dissonance. The virility, breadth, and powerful imagery of his music make him a major figure, but, by an ironical twist of fate, his career was to fall...

Drawing on a vast amount of source material, much of it previously unpublished, Moore here presents Sir Edward Elgar's life and works as inseparable parts of a single creative whole. ...All you could possibly want to know about Elgar ... a monumental achievement.' Michael Kennedy in The Daily Telegraph .

The purpose of the Oxford Studies of Composers series is to provide short, scholarly, critical surveys of composers about whom no major work is already available, or whose music stands in particular need of re-assessment. The emphasis is on the music itself, biographical data being kept to a minimum, and there are numerous music examples. Tallis is one of the great names in English music, and recent years have seen a considerable increase in the performance...

One of the last composers of the Romantic era, Elgar was hailed as England's greatest composer since Purcell, but fell out of favor after World War I when modernism shook the world of music. Anderson's study spotlights Elgar's true achievement in forging an individual style from the legacy of Brahms and Wagner.

Britten was a major pioneer of English Chamber Opera and was the creator of some of the most famous British operas including Peter Grimes, Billy Budd and the Chamber opera The Turn of the Screw. He is also remembered for his War Requiem. This book tells the story of his life, including his lifelong collaboration with his friend Peter Pears and his talent as a highly respected accompanist.

The acclaimed English composer William Walton--enfant terrible of English music in the 1920s and '30s, composer of Fagade, Belshazzar's Feast, and a host of other brilliant works--lived a long and accomplished life. Admitted as a nine-year-old Lancashire schoolboy to Christ Church Choir School in Oxford, he was discovered by Sacheverell Sitwell as an undergraduate at Christ Church, adopted by all three Sitwells, and early on discovered a publisher...

Arthur Jacobs gives in his new and excellent biography a colourful and judicious portrait of the composer... He also studies Sullivan's music with lightly-borne erudition and practised skill

Surveys the music of Britain's greatest living composer, examines its metrical, musical, and poetic structure, and discusses Tippett's education, influences, and development. "In celebration of Tippett's sixtieth birthday in 1965 Sir Isaiah Berlin wrote by way of tribute: 'This most poetical, most serious, and very passionate composer is among the very few who have created worlds of their own, worlds any part of which is easily recognizable as uniquely...