Includes bibliographical references (pages 222-233) and index.
Contents:
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.
Summary:
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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