The Symphonic Poem in Britain, 1850-1950

PAUL WATT is Adjunct Professor of Musicology in The University of Adelaide. He is the author of Ernest Newman: A Critical Biography (The Boydell Press, 2017) and editor of The Symphonic Poem in Britain, 1850-1950 (with Michael Allis) (The Boydell Press, 2020). BARBARA L. KELLY is Professor of Music, University of Leeds JEREMY DIBBLE is an Emeritus Professor of Music at Durham University where he taught for 30 years. He is the author of C. Hubert H. Parry: His Life and Music (1998), Charles Villers Stanford: Man and Musician (original edition, 2002), Michele Esposito (2010). With the Boydell Press, Dibble has published John Stainer: A Life in Music (2007), Hamilton Harty: Musical Polymath (2013), British Musical Criticism and Intellectual Thought, 1850-1950 (2018) (with Julian Horton) and The Music of Frederick Delius (2021). PAUL WATT is Adjunct Professor of Musicology in The University of Adelaide. He is the author of Ernest Newman: A Critical Biography (The Boydell Press, 2017) and editor of The Symphonic Poem in Britain, 1850-1950 (with Michael Allis) (The Boydell Press, 2020).

Introduction - Michael Allis and Paul Watt
Narrative and Formal Plasticity in the British Symphonic Poem, 1850-1950 - Jeremy Dibble
The Symphonic Poem and British Music Criticism - Paul Watt
Richard Strauss's Tone Poems in Britain, 1890-1950 - David Larkin
French Connections: Debussy and Ravel's Orchestral Music in Britain from Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune to Boléro - Barbara L. Kelly
The Rise of the Symphonic Poem in Glasgow, 1879-1916: A Documentary History - Anne-Marie Forbes and Heather Monkhouse
'A curious intricate work of the modern, but not theultra-modern, school': William Wallace's Villon - Michael Allis
Gustav Holst's Beni Mora and the Orientalist Imagination - Christopher Scheer
Symphonic Poetry, 1914: Parry's From Death To Life - Benedict Taylor
John Ireland's Mai-Dun: Composite Influences - Fiona Richards
Frank Bridge: Poems of Re-enchantment - Jonathan Clinch