Sensibility and English Song: Critical Studies of the Early Twentieth Century

by Stephen Banfield

Book Overview

This highly acclaimed study of English song is the first detailed account of an unusually fruitful interrelationship between English music and English poetry. The period covered is known as the English Musical Renaissance and runs from the last years of the nineteenth century to the Second World War. Stephen Banfield traces the late flowering of Romantic impulses in solo song during these years, surveying it from critical, analytical and historical...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 052137944X
• ISBN13: 9780521379441
• Release Date: January 1989
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 640 Pages
• Weight: 2.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 7.5" x 9.3"