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9 Three Journeys, Two Paths: Locating the Lyric and Dramatic in Elgar’s Sea Pictures
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Charles Edward McGuire
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Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents vii
- Tables and Illustrations ix
- Musical Examples xi
- Contributors xv
- Acknowledgements xviii
- Introduction: Behold the Sea 1
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The Sea as Geography
- 1 ‘Britannia Rule the Waves’: Maritime Music and National Identity in Eighteenth-Century Britain 9
- 2 Scotland, the ‘Celtic North,’ and the Sea: Issues of Identity in Bantock’s Hebridean Symphony (1915) 31
- 3 Sea Change: A Meditation upon Frank Bridge’s Lament: To Catherine, Aged 9, ‘Lusitania’ 1915 51
- 4 Crosscurrents in the Britten Legacy: Two Visions of Aldeburgh 67
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The Sea as Profession
- 5 ‘Come away, fellow sailors’: Musical Characterization of the Nautical Profession in Seventeenth-Century England 81
- 6 Jolly Jack Tar: Musical Caricature and Characterization of the British Sailor, c. 1875–1925 105
- 7 Fishers of Men: Maritime Radio and Evangelical Hymnody in the Scottish Fishing Industry, 1950–65 127
- 8 Amanuensis of the Sea: Peter Maxwell Davies’s Symphonies Nos. 1 and 2 and the Antarctic Symphony 151
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The Sea as Metaphor
- 9 Three Journeys, Two Paths: Locating the Lyric and Dramatic in Elgar’s Sea Pictures 177
- 10 Political Visions, National Identities, and the Sea Itself: Stanford and Vaughan Williams in 1910 205
- 11 Bax’s ‘Sea Symphony’ 225
- 12 ‘Close your eyes and listen to it’: Special Sound and the Sea in BBC Radio Drama, 1957–59 251
- Afterword: Channelling the Swaying Sound of the Sea 267
- Index 279
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents vii
- Tables and Illustrations ix
- Musical Examples xi
- Contributors xv
- Acknowledgements xviii
- Introduction: Behold the Sea 1
-
The Sea as Geography
- 1 ‘Britannia Rule the Waves’: Maritime Music and National Identity in Eighteenth-Century Britain 9
- 2 Scotland, the ‘Celtic North,’ and the Sea: Issues of Identity in Bantock’s Hebridean Symphony (1915) 31
- 3 Sea Change: A Meditation upon Frank Bridge’s Lament: To Catherine, Aged 9, ‘Lusitania’ 1915 51
- 4 Crosscurrents in the Britten Legacy: Two Visions of Aldeburgh 67
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The Sea as Profession
- 5 ‘Come away, fellow sailors’: Musical Characterization of the Nautical Profession in Seventeenth-Century England 81
- 6 Jolly Jack Tar: Musical Caricature and Characterization of the British Sailor, c. 1875–1925 105
- 7 Fishers of Men: Maritime Radio and Evangelical Hymnody in the Scottish Fishing Industry, 1950–65 127
- 8 Amanuensis of the Sea: Peter Maxwell Davies’s Symphonies Nos. 1 and 2 and the Antarctic Symphony 151
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The Sea as Metaphor
- 9 Three Journeys, Two Paths: Locating the Lyric and Dramatic in Elgar’s Sea Pictures 177
- 10 Political Visions, National Identities, and the Sea Itself: Stanford and Vaughan Williams in 1910 205
- 11 Bax’s ‘Sea Symphony’ 225
- 12 ‘Close your eyes and listen to it’: Special Sound and the Sea in BBC Radio Drama, 1957–59 251
- Afterword: Channelling the Swaying Sound of the Sea 267
- Index 279