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British Composers (Light Music)

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Composer profiles (International)

This website acts as home for many British Composers Societies and Trusts to be found listed on the left of  the British composers page, together with MusicWeb's own composer profiles held on this site. On the right are links to composer  files held on other web-sites.

In addition we have a series of articles listed below written  by Philip L. Scowcroft
English Composers for Amateurs

No 1 - Alec Rowley
No 2 -  Eric Thiman
No 3 -  Thomas Dunhill
No 4 -  Felix Swinstead
No 5 -  E Markham Lee
No 6 - Charles Woodhouse
No 7 -  Adam Carse
No 8 - Thomas Johnson
No 9 - Alfred Scott-Gatty
No 10 - Craig S Lang

The Great Composers
A new series

Definition of a great composer
by David Wright

An introduction to the Symphony by David Wright

Bartok
Beethoven
Brahms
Haydn
Mozart
Wagner

THE HISTORY OF MUSIC 1. Earliest times to the Renaissance Dr David C F Wright

We have more information on British Light Music Composers than any other website which is compiled by Philip Scowcroft in a series of files which he affectionately entitles as Garlands

In addition we have a number of articles listed below written  by Philip L. Scowcroft

SOME BRITISH CONDUCTOR-COMPOSERS

SOME BRITISH INSTRUMENTALIST COMPOSERS

Aviation in British Music
Railways in Music
Waterways in Music
Roads and Road Transport in Music
Ships and harbours in Music
Horse Racing and Music

British Composers in Literature
Music and Thomas Hardy
Agatha Christie and Music
Jane Austen and Music
Rudyard Kipling and Music
Walter Scott and Music
Crime Fiction and Music
Music in English Detective Fiction
Music inspired by Sherlock Holmes
Elgar in Crime Fiction
A.E.W.Mason
Beatrix Potter
William Makepeace Thakeray
H G Wells
Oscar Wilde
Music and the Brontes
The Lighter Elgar
Joseph Holbrooke Light Music
Gastronomy and Music:
The Cafe Orchestra in Fact and Fiction
Sport and Music
Men of Brass
The Euphonium and British Music
British Saxophone Music
The Concertina and British Music
Yorkshire Organist-Composers
Music and the Forsyte Saga
Music and the Lake District
Music and J.B. Priestley
Robin Hood in Music
Wilkie Collins and Music
THE DISTAFF SIDE: SOME BRITISH WOMEN COMPOSERS

Although initially a site for British composers, we increasingly hold a number of pages on other composers and their societies and we would welcome any further enquiries. Files actually located on this server are indicated by an appropriate logo.

BOOK
The Business of Music: reflections of a music publisher by Ernst Roth

As chairman of Boosey and Hawkes Ernst Roth was given insight into the music business in the late 1900s and provides fascinating personal reminiscences of the great composers of his day: Strauss, Stravinsky, Britten etc.