The sea in the British musical imagination. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Eric Saylor and Christopher M. Scheer.
• Other Names: Saylor, Eric; Scheer, Christopher M
• Contents: 'Brittania rule the waves' : maritime music and national identity in eighteenth-century Britain / Alyson McLamore -- Scotland, the 'Celtic North, ' and the sea : issues of identity in Bantock's Hebridean symphony (1915) / Jennifer Oates -- Sea change : a meditation upon Frank Bridge's Lament: to Catherine, age 9, 'Lusitania' 1915 / Byron Adams -- Crosscurrents in the Britten legacy : two visions of Aldeburgh / Christopher M. Scheer -- 'Come away, fellow sailors' : musical characterization of the nautical profession in seventeenth-century England / Amanda Eubanks Winkler -- Jolly Jack Tar : musical caricature and characterization of the British sailor, c. 1875-1925 / James Brooks Kuykendall -- Fishers of men : maritime radio and evangelical hymnody in the Scottish fishing industry, 1950-65 / Frances Wilkins -- Amanuensis of the sea : Peter Maxwell Davies's Symphonies nos. 1 and 2 and the Antarctic symphony / Justin Vickers -- Three journeys. Two paths : locating the lyric and dramatic in Elgar's Sea pictures / Charles Edward McGuire -- Political visions. National identities, and the sea itself : Stanford and Vaughan Williams in 1910 / Eric Saylor -- Bax's 'Sea symphony' / Aidan J. Thomson -- 'Close your eyes and listen to it' : special sound and the sea in BBC radio drama, 1957-59 / Louis Niebur -- Afterword : Channelling the swaying sound of the sea / Jenny Doctor.
• Publisher Details: Woodbridge, Suffolk, U.K Rochester, N.Y : Boydell Press
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource (xvii, 288 pages), illustrations, music
• Subjects: 780/.055146; Ocean -- Songs and music; Musicology; Musicology; Ocean; MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Classical; MUSIC / Reference; Songs and music; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781782046950; 9781782046943; 1782046941
• Related ISBNs: 178204695X; 9781783270620; 1783270624
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.