Reflecting the growth of international interest in Elgar's music, this collection of essays brings together leading scholars from the UK and the USA, and covers the broadest range of analytical approaches to his music. It is perhaps in textual analysis and criticism that Elgar studies are showing their most remarkable growth. In this volume, analysts and theorists place Elgar at the centre of research into late-tonal music theory - particularly Schenkerian and neo-Riemannian - and the continually burgeoning area of musical hermeneutics. Through study of published scores and recently discovered sketches, different contributions explore Elgar's musical language and treatment of symphonic form, and themes in his music such as empire, race, the pastoral and idyllic, mourning, and loss. The essays cover the entire range of current thinking on Elgar's music, and have wide ramifications for future approaches to music of the early twentieth century.

A collection of essays by leading scholars analysing a wide range of Edward Elgar's musical works.

About the Author
J. P. E. Harper-Scott is Lecturer in Music at Royal Holloway, University of London. Julian Rushton is Emeritus Professor of Music at the University of Leeds.


Book Information
ISBN 9780521861991
Author J. P. E. Harper-Scott
Format Hardback
Page Count 328
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Weight(grams) 818g
Dimensions(mm) 249mm * 178mm * 25mm