History of English music and composers, the influences on them during the 19th century, the folk-song revolution and the growth of an English tradition in music

This controversial study isolates and identifies the intellectual, social, and political assumptions which surrounded English music in the early-20th century. T

The importance of nineteenth-century writing about culture has long been accepted by scholars, yet so far as music criticism is concerned, Victorian England has

The author examines the secular music of the late Renaissance period primarily through families of varying importance.