Contents

pp v-vi

List of Illustrations

pp vii-ix

Contributors

pp x-xiii

Acknowledgements

pp xiv-xiv

List of Abbreviations

pp xv-xv

Introduction: The Symphonic Poem in Britain

pp 1-12

Part I - Contexts

pp 13-14

1 - Narrative and Formal Plasticity in the British Symphonic Poem, 1850–1950

pp 15-54

2 - The Symphonic Poem and British Music Criticism

pp 55-79

3 - Richard Strauss’s Tone Poems in Britain, 1890–1950

pp 80-114

4 - French Connections: Debussy and Ravel’s Orchestral Music in Britain from Prélude à l’après-midi d’un Faune to Boléro

pp 115-146

5 - The Rise of the Symphonic Poem in Glasgow, 1879–1916: A Documentary History

pp 147-178

Part II - Texts

pp 179-180

6 - ‘A Curious Intricate Work of the Modern, but not the Ultramodern, School’: William Wallace’s Villon

pp 181-218

7 - Gustav Holst’s Beni Mora and the Orientalist Imagination

pp 219-244

8 - Symphonic Poetry, 1914: Parry’s From Death To Life

pp 245-277

9 - John Ireland’s Mai-Dun: Composite Influences

pp 278-304

10 - Frank Bridge: Poems of Re-enchantment

pp 305-330

Select Bibliography

pp 331-348

Index

pp 349-367

Miscellaneous Endmatter

pp 368-370