Features
- Cover Type: Paperback with 592 pages
- Published by: Oxford University Press, USA; New Ed edition May 14, 1998
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 0198167024
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-0198167020
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Book Dimensions:
9.2 x 6.1 x 1.3 inches
- Weighs: 1.8 pounds
Product Review
`vastly detailed and sympathetic.' Bayan Northcott, BBC Music
`This book fills a real gap, and will be a standard reference work for years to come.' David Mellor, Daily Telegraph
`Jeremy Dibble has comprehensively filled a major gap in the documentation of the English musical renaissance with this full-scale study of the life and music of Sir Hubert Parry, a book that was long overdue and has been eagerly awaited. It is no disappointment. Mr Dibble has blown away for ever the received image of the composer of Jerusalem He has done it not with pretentious psychologising but with the evidence his value judgements are shrewd and make one eager to hear more of the music.' Michael Kennedy, Sunday Telegraph
Product Description
Sir Hubert Parry was one of Britain's most creative and influential musicians, and a key architect of the English Musical Renaissance. This is a major reappraisal of Parry, both of his life and his vast legacy of compositions. Well known for three enduringly popular works--Blest Pair of
Sirens, I was Glad, and Jerusalem, almost an unofficial national anthem--Parry has long been presented as a paternal, establishment figure. Yet Parry's personality was infinitely more complex, as Jeremy Dibble makes clear. Drawing on a wealth of documentary evidence made available for the first
time, he is able to draw a detailed portrait of a radical, energetic, yet hypersensitive and lonely man. Dibble also charts Parry's development as a composer, and presents a detailed examination of his works illustrated with a number of musical examples.
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