Elgar: A Life in Photographs [Hardcover]

Jerrold Northrop Moore (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 14, 1988

This pictorial record of the life of Sir Edward Elgar contains contemporary postcards, family photographs, and newspaper illustrations that combine to form an illuminating and moving portrait of the great composer.

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"'There is music in the air, music all around us... and you simply take as much as you require.' Edward Elgar" --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

About the Author

Jerrold Northrop Moore lives in Worcestershire and is the author of the definitive biography Edward Elgar: A Creative Life, which has remained continuously in print since its first publication by Oxford University Press in 1984. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 112 pages
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (July 14, 1988)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0193154250
• ISBN-13: 978-0193154254
• Product Dimensions: 12 x 8.5 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,236,743 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars What makes Elgar's musical voice unique?, November 28, 2007

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This review is from: Elgar (Paperback)

Moore's book shows that elements of Elgar's mature works, including the Enigma Variations, The Dream of Gerontius and the Cello Concerto, can be found in the pieces of music the composer wrote as a young boy growing up in Worcester. He demonstrates that these early efforts reveal characteristic rhythms and harmonies--a kind of musical DNA--that reasserted themselves throughout a lifetime of musical composition.

But music is more than a series of notes, and Moore is equally concerned with the vision that animates Elgar's work. He begins by asking how music can conjure up a specific landscape, and, after showing how one Elgar composition after another reflects the light and contours of the Worcestershire countryside, he concludes by placing the composer in a long line of English pastoralists stretching back through Constable, Shakespeare and Chaucer.

As the author of the definitive Elgar biography, Moore has an encyclopedic knowledge of the composer and his world, and he brings to bear years of thinking about this music. No matter how well you know Elgar's music, this book will let you hear it afresh, and you may be surprised at what you'll find.