Sir Hubert Parry was one of Britain's most creative and influential musicians, and a key architect of the English Musical Renaissance. This is a major reappraisal of Parry, both of his life and his vast legacy of compositions. Well known for three enduringly popular works--Blest Pair of Sirens, I was Glad, and Jerusalem, almost an unofficial national anthem--Parry has long been presented as a paternal, establishment figure. Yet Parry's personality was infinitely more complex, as Jeremy Dibble makes clear. Drawing on a wealth of documentary evidence made available for the first time, he is able to draw a detailed portrait of a radical, energetic, yet hypersensitive and lonely man. Dibble also charts Parry's development as a composer, and presents a detailed examination of his works illustrated with a number of musical examples.
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"Dibble has done splendid, exhaustive research....[Students should] read this book for its wealth of vivid detail concerning music-making and composing in late Victorian and Edwardian England. Dibble's debut is impressive."--Choice
"Dibble has comprehensively filled a major gap in the documentation of the English musical renaissance with this full-scale study...a book that was long overdue and has been eagerly awaited. It is no disappointment....Abounds in memorable vignettes....His value-judgments are shrewd and make one eager to hear more of the music."--Michael Kennedy, The Sunday Telegraph
--This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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Jeremy Dibble is Senior Lecturer in Music at the University of Durham.
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