Granville Bantock and the Orchestral Refiguring of Literature
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Product details:
- Publisher Boydell & Brewer Ltd
- Date of Publication 14 April 2026
- ISBN 9781837651740
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages308 pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Weight 540 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 149 mus. exx. 695
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Short description:
Illuminates Bantock's experimentation with musical structure to create effective representations of literature, while offering new notions of the modern in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century music.
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Illuminates Bantock's experimentation with musical structure to create effective representations of literature, while offering new notions of the modern in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century music. Granville Bantock (1868-1946) remains one of the most significant British composers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. This book provides an in-depth exploration of a series of orchestral compositions by Bantock based on different forms of literature (the poem, the drama, the novel) penned by a wide range of authors including Robert Browning, Samuel Butler, Dante, Ernest Dowson, Thomas Moore, Percy Shelley, Sophocles and Robert Southey. The majority of the musical works discussed date from Bantock's most successful period as a composer (c.1899-1911), when his music was perceived to be 'modern'. Although critics were struck by his skills in orchestration, central to his modernist credentials is his distinctive approach to musical structure. The book's in-depth analyses, drawing on a wide range of literary scholarship, demonstrate a more meaningful way to appreciate these designs as individual responses to the literary texts on which they are based. As well as tackling the vexed issue of programme music, the book also highlights Bantock's association with orientalism. As the first major study of Bantock's orchestral music, this book not only demonstrates the composer's experimentation with musical structure to create effective representations of literature, but its findings also have a wider significance in terms of notions of the modern and the interdisciplinary potential of music-literature studies in general.
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List of Figures, Tables and Music Examples Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction: Granville Bantock and the orchestral refiguring of literature 1 Catalytic works: refiguring Milton, Southey and Bulwer-Lytton 2 Rotational form, fate and layers of otherness: Thalaba the Destroyer 3 Generic and formal ambiguities: Hudibras 4 Rondo deformation and mythopoesis: The Witch of Atlas 5 Shifting orientalism: the Lalla Rookh project 6 Progressive tonality and the idealised feminine: Dante and Beatrice 7 Refiguring speaker, auditor and character in the dramatic monologue: Fifine at the Fair 8 A tale of two overtures: The Pierrot of the Minute and Overture to a Greek Tragedy Coda Select Bibliography Index
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