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Edward Elgar and His World
Author | : Byron Adams |
Publsiher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 449 |
Release | : 2011-11-14 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781400832101 |
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Edward Elgar (1857-1934) is undoubtedly one of the most fascinating, important, and influential figures in the history of British music. He rose from humble beginnings and achieved fame with music that to this day is beloved by audiences in England, and his work has secured an enduring legacy worldwide. Leading scholars examine the composer's life in Edward Elgar and His World, presenting a comprehensive portrait of both the man and the age in which he lived. Elgar's achievement is remarkably varied and wide-ranging, from immensely popular works like the famous Pomp and Circumstance March no. 1--a standard feature of American graduations--to sweeping masterpieces like his great oratorio The Dream of Gerontius. The contributors explore Elgar's Catholicism, which put him at odds with the prejudices of Protestant Britain; his glorification of British colonialism; his populist tendencies; his inner life as an inspired autodidact; the aristocratic London drawing rooms where his reputation was made; the class prejudice with which he contended throughout his career; and his anguished reaction to World War I. Published in conjunction with the 2007 Bard Music Festival and the 150th anniversary of Elgar's birth, this elegant and thought-provoking volume illuminates the greatness of this accomplished English composer and brings vividly to life the rich panorama of Victorian and Edwardian Britain. The contributors are Byron Adams, Leon Botstein, Rachel Cowgill, Sophie Fuller, Daniel M. Grimley, Nalini Ghuman Gwynne, Deborah Heckert, Charles Edward McGuire, Matthew Riley, Alison I. Shiel, and Aidan J. Thomson. Some images inside the book are unavailable due to digital copyright restrictions.
Spirit of England
Author | : Jerrold Northrop Moore |
Publsiher | : Heinemann |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : UOM:39015007876355 |
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Edward Elgar
Author | : Jerrold Northrop Moore |
Publsiher | : Clarendon Press |
Total Pages | : 868 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0198163665 |
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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.
Living Wages Around the World
Author | : Richard Anker,Martha Anker |
Publsiher | : Edward Elgar Publishing |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 2017-01-27 |
Genre | : Minimum wage |
ISBN | : 9781786431462 |
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This manual describes a new methodology to measure a decent but basic standard of living in different countries and how much workers need to earn to afford this, making it possible for researchers to estimate comparable living wages around the world and determine gaps between living wages and prevailing wages, even in countries with limited secondary data.
Edward Elgar
Author | : Christopher Grogan |
Publsiher | : Pen and Sword History |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2020-12-02 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781526764652 |
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More perhaps than any other composer, Edward Elgar (1857-1934) has gained the status of an ‘icon of locality,' his music seemingly inextricably linked to the English landscape in which he worked. This, the first full-length study of Elgar’s complex interaction with his physical environment, explores how it is that such associations are formed and whether it is any sense true that Elgar alchemized landscape into music. It argues that Elgar stands at the apex of an English tradition, going back to Blake, in which creative artists in all media have identified and warned against the self-harm of environmental degradation and that, following a period in which these ideas were swept away by the swift but shallow tide of Modernism in the decades after the First World War, they have since resurfaced with a new relevance and urgency for twenty-first century society. Written with the non-specialist in mind, yet drawing on the rich resources of post-millennial scholarship on Elgar, as well as geographical studies of place, the book also includes many new insights relating to such aspects of Elgar’s output as his use of landscape typology in The Apostles, and his encounter with Modernism in the late chamber music. It also calls on the resources of contemporary social commentary, poetry and, especially, English landscape art to place Elgar and his thought in the broader cultural milieu of his time. A survey of recent recordings is included, in the hope that listeners, both familiar and unfamiliar with Elgar’s music, will feel inspired to embark on a voyage of (re)discovery of its endlessly rewarding treasures.
How Standards Rule the World
Author | : Ingrid Gustafsson |
Publsiher | : Edward Elgar Publishing |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 2020-06-26 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9781788975025 |
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This book explains how international standards have come to specify almost all aspects of society, While resting on buzzwords such as ‘trust’ and ‘confidence’, the global control regime leaves us with a faceless bureaucratic system with no name and no one in charge. Using empirical and in depth analysis , the author discusses the consequences for responsibility: if no one is in charge, then no one is to be held accountable for how standards rule the world.
Standing up for a Sustainable World
Author | : Claude Henry,Johan Rockström,Nicholas Stern |
Publsiher | : Edward Elgar Publishing |
Total Pages | : 496 |
Release | : 2020-12-25 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9781800371781 |
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The world has witnessed extraordinary economic growth, poverty reduction and increased life expectancy and population since the end of WWII, but it has occurred at the expense of undermining life support systems on Earth and subjecting future generations to the real risk of destabilising the planet. This timely book exposes and explores this colossal environmental cost and the dangerous position the world is now in. Standing up for a Sustainable World is written by and about key individuals who have not only understood the threats to our planet, but also become witness to them and confronted them.
Edward Elgar and the Nostalgic Imagination
Author | : Matthew Riley |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 15 |
Release | : 2007-02-08 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9780521863612 |
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A study of nostalgia in the music of the popular twentieth-century composer Edward Elgar.