Bøker av John C. Dressler

"Granville Bantock: A Guide to Research provides both researchers and British music aficionados an entry to documents, books, articles, recordings, and the like currently available for further study about Bantock's life and music. Location and descriptive details of the manuscripts that are extant will assist those looking to construct editions of especially those works which have remained in manuscript and updated editions of those works which were initially published nearly 100 years ago. A discography provides insight into the wide variety of recording companies that first served Bantock's music. Included in the book are sections about: academic theses and dissertations, citations of locations of many of Bantock's letters, and an index that cross-references all of these details to the works which they highlight is a major help to the reader"--

Alan Rawsthorne was a British composer, film scorer, music editor, author, and radio talk show presenter. At the heart of his musical contribution was a unique blend of European and English 20th-century techniques which concentrated on instrumental rather than vocal music. While most of this volume is dedicated to Rawsthorne's original musical works, the reader's attention is also drawn to his articles, radio talks, and arrangements of works of other composers. His disposition placed his career in the background of others who were more public; his preference was to write music for its own sake rather than for notoriety and monetary gain. Through the guiding direction of other composers and radio leadership personnel, Rawsthorne created music for the next age as much as for his current time.This bibliography is comprised of a listing of all known works (completed and uncompleted), premieres and selected other performances (highlighting venues, dates, and performers' names), a discography of both commercially available discs and archival tapes and discs, a 1500-item annotated set of citations of reviews, sections of books, articles and the like regarding the works, Rawsthorne's life and recordings, five appendices (song cycle and multi-section works components, alphabetical works list, Manchester manuscript collection details, chronological works list, works of other composers dedicated to Rawsthorne) and a 25-page index to the book.

Gerald Finzi (1901-1956) was a British composer, editor, author and outdoorsman/agrarian. This work serves as an awareness tool, introducing Finzi as a miniaturist, a pastoral composer and a minor Edwardian musician.

William Alwyn: A Research and Information Guide is a catalogue, discography and annotated bibliography of the nearly 500 works of this twentieth-century British composer. It will be invaluable to twentieth-century British composer researchers and aficionados, music history courses, and film music courses.