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Composing history : national identities and the English masque revival, 1860-1920
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A study of the ways in which topics of English history were central to conceptions of English identity, musical and otherwise, during the Victorian and Edwardian periods.
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- Creator
- Deborah Heckert
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- Language
- English
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- Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK ; Rochester, NY, USA : The Boydell Press, 2018
- © 2018
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- ix, 238 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781783272075, 1783272074
- OCLC
- ocn967844028
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 222-233) and index.
- Vaughan Williams, Stratford's masque and the wellsprings of England's music -- 'With revel dance and song': The Musical Image of History in the Victorian Masque -- The Past speaks in English: Historiography and the Masque Revival -- Making the Commonwealth a Harmony: The Masque, the Folk Revival and Pageant Culture -- 'The Heroic Past and the Earth his Mother': The Reticence of Reception and the Burden of Imperialism -- 'A typically English institution': The Masque after the First World War -- Appendix One: Chronology of Masque Compositions during the 19th century -- Appendix Two: Chronology of Masque Historiography prior to 1930 -- Appendix Three: Chronology of British Masque Compositions, 1901-1950 -- Appendix Four: Review of Pan's Anniversary from the Stratford-upon-Avon Herald, 28 April, 1905