Folk Song in England: A. L. Lloyd
A seminal work by one of the most influential figures of the English folk revival of the 1950s, Folk Song in England (1967) is an expansive account of the development of English traditional song, from the very oldest, ritual verse, through epic balladry, to the development of lyrical song in the industrial era.
In a unique and ambitious approach, Lloyd marries the tradition of folk-song scholarship, largely derived from Cecil Sharp, with the radical historiography of E. P. Thompson, and in so doing produces a work of exceptional insight. In particular, his defining of ‘industrial folk song’ reveals traditional verse as an ebullient, living expression of the working people, perfectly adaptable to reflect their ways and conditions of life. More
Anatomy of the Orchestra: Norman Del Mar
The first edition (1981) of Anatomy of the Orchestra, Norman Del Mar’s renowned treatise and study of orchestral practice, sold out within a year of its publication. Del Mar (1919-1994), ... More
Richard Strauss: Norman Del Mar
A masterly, three-volume critical study of the life and work of the great composer Richard Strauss. More
Richard Strauss: Norman Del Mar
Norman Del Mar (1919-1994) was universally recognised as a leading authority on the music of Richard Strauss, and his masterly three-volume study of his life and works remains a classic.Volume ... More
Richard Strauss: Norman Del Mar
Norman Del Mar (1919-1994) was universally recognised as a leading authority on the music of Richard Strauss, and his masterly three-volume study of his life and works remains a classic.Volume ... More
Three Plays: Ivan Turgenev
Translated by Constance Garnett Three Plays by Turgenev includes A Month in the Country, A Provincial Lady and A Poor Gentleman.Turgenev wrote A Month in the Country in France between ... More
The Storm: Alexander Ostrovsky
One of Ostrovsky’s most poetical works, The Storm is set in Kalinov, a provincial town on the banks of the Upper Volga. Trapped in an unhappy marriage, Katerína is tormented ... More
Cecil Sharp: Maud Karpeles
Others came before and after him but no person is more strongly associated with the revival of English folk song and dance at the turn of the twentieth-century than Cecil ... More
The Messiaen Companion: Edited by Peter Hill
Re-issued to coincide with the centenary of Messiaen’s birth, The Messiaen Companion was the first major study to appear after the composer’s death in April 1992. It was the first ... More
The Balcony: Jean Genet
Jean Genet’s The Balcony, which premiered in 1957, has come to be recognised as one of the founding plays of modern theatre, and is what the philosopher Lucien Goldmann has ... More
The Screens: Jean Genet
The Screens is the last of Genet’s plays to be performed during his lifetime. Its subject is the Algerian War of Independence, and it is an intricately crafted, grandiose construction ... More
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