PUBLICATIONS
* Certain volumes of British Music are now out of print, and marked below with an asterisk: photocopies of these are available by special order – please contact the Hon Treasurer for pricing details.
BRITISH MUSIC - the annual Journal of the British Music Society
Volume 1, 1979 (*Out of Print)
Sir Arthur Bliss, by Andrew Guyatt; Sir William Sterndale Bennett, by Barry Sterndale Bennett; A Profile of Percy Turnbull, by Mary Turnbull; Bernard van Dieren, by Robert Williams.
Volume 2, 1980 (*Out of Print)The Harty Recording of Walton's First Symphony, by Patric Stevenson; Ronald Center (1913-1973): An Introduction, by Derek M. Blyth; The Making of The Planets, by Michael Short; A Bliss Discography, by Andrew Guyatt; Whittaker Centenary Retrospect, by Jonathan Pollitzer; The Viking Pioneer, by Mary Whittaker; A Whittaker Discography, by Andrew Guyatt; John Raynor, by Olwen Picton-Jones; Doncaster and its Composers, by P.L. Scowcroft.
Volume 3, 1981 £4.00
Sir Eugene Goossens, by Anne Goossens; Structure and Tonality in Parry's Chamber Music, by Jeremy C. Dibble; The Study of Local Musical History, by Dr E.D. Mackerness; Cyril Scott: Piano Sonata No 3, by W.A. Pasfield; Wilfred Sanderson: Songwriter, Organist and Conductor, by Philip Scowcroft; Leslie Heward's Recording of Moeran's Symphony in G Minor, by Patric Stevenson.
Volume 4, 1982 £4.00
Elgar and South Yorkshire, by Philip Scowcroft; Christopher Headington-Interview, by Terry Barfoot; British Piano Music of the Georgian Era 1910-1936, an Anthology, by Colin Scott-Sutherland; The New Grove and British Composers-a Review, by Stan Meares.
Volume 5, 1983 £4.00
Vaughan Williams' Pilgrim's Progress, by Stan Meares; Music at the Imperial Institute (1893-1900), by Dr E.D. Mackerness; van Dieren's Toccata and Tema con Variazioni for piano, printed in facsimile; Hubert Parry and English Diatonic Dissonance, by Jeremy C. Dibble; William Wordsworth: a 75th Birthday Tribute, by John Dodd; Rebecca Clarke, by Michael Ponder; George Butterworth: the Early Years, by Michael Barlow.
Volume 6, 1984 £4.00
The Pre-Raphaelites and Music, by Susan Parsons; Orlando Gibbons' Quartercentenary: Discographical and Bibliographical Retrospect, by Richard Turbet; La Ronde se déroule: Delius and the Round Dance, by Stephen Banfield; The Symphonies of Edmund Rubbra, by Louis Blois; Richard Hall (1903-1982), by Geoffrey Tomason, with a list of his works and a facsimile of his song, My Star; Rebecca Clarke - a facsimile of her song, The Donkey.
Volume 7, 1985 £4.00
Ernest Bristow Farrar, by Adrian Officer; Edward German, by James Brown; William Alwyn: A Memorial Tribute, by Hubert Culot; Cyril Bradley Rootham, by Kenneth Shenton; Elgar's First Symphony, by Michael Garnaes; Peter Warlock: His Friends and their Influence, by Peter J. Reynolds; Gordon Jacob in Interview, by Lewis Foreman.
Volume 8, 1986 £4.00
The Lesser Known Talents of Cecil Gray, by Pauline Gray; I am Weary of my Groaning, a hitherto unpublished round attributed to Morley or Byrd, by Richard Turbet; Frank Bridge's First Visit to America, by Dr Trevor Bray; Sir George Alexander Macfarren: the Complete Victorian, by Maxwell W. Pettitt; The Performance of British Music in Doncaster, by Philip Scowcroft; Bernard van Dieren: English Eccentric or Musical Genius? by Patrick Riley; The Student Diary of William Sterndale Bennett, courtesy of Barry Sterndale Bennett.
Volume 9, 1987 £4.00
Charles Avison, by Lyall Wilkes; Humphrey Searle, by D.C.F. Wright; Poem: Discordant Song, by Michael Cardy (1986); John Gerrard Williams, by Barbara Parker; Hans Gál: a Conversation with Martin J. Anderson; Sir Arthur Somervell, by Kenneth Shenton; The Student Diary of William Sterndale Bennett (continued).
Volume 10, 1988 £4.00
Some Recollections of Peter Wishart, by D.J. Roberts; Arthur Benjamin: Australian Symphonist, by Robert Barnett; Alfred Reynolds: Man of the Theatre, by Philip Scowcroft; John Herbert Foulds (1880-1939): an Appreciation, by Lance Tufnell; The Student Diary of William Sterndale Bennett (concluded).
Volume 11, 1989 £4.00
Founder Members of the British Music Society; A Range of Hills: Four Settings of Housman's Poem Bredon Hill, by Brian Blyth Daubney; William Henry Bell: an Interim Sketch and Work List, by Robert Barnett; The Mid-Victorian Secular Cantata 1850-1870, by Maxwell W. Pettitt; Cecil Armstrong Gibbs: a Personal Memoir, by E. Ann Rust, with a list of his compositions; Adrian Cruft talking about his music, edited by Jack Denford (part 1).
Volume 12, 1990 £4.00
Sir Lennox Berkeley: a tribute, by David Wordsworth; Adrian Cruft talking about his music, edited by Jack Denford (part 2); Edgar Bainton, by Michael Jones; Rupert Brooke and the Gallipoli Composers, by Rhian Davies; John Veale, by David C.F. Wright.
Volume 13, 1991 £4.50
Ruth Gipps, by David C.F. Wright; Stanley Bate: Forgotten International Composer, by Michael Barlow and Robert Barnett; Morfydd Owen, by Rhian Davies; The Christmas Fantasias of Vaughan Williams and Holst, by Carolyn Livingston.
Volume 14, 1992 £4.50
Richard Arnell at 75, by Michael Dawney; The Composer's Use of Words: the Language and Music of Gerald Finzi, by Edward Cline; Algernon Ashton (1859-1937), by Patrick Webb; Horsley's 1842 Edition of William Byrd and its Infamous Introduction, by Richard Turbet; Dorothy Howell (1898-1982), by Celia Mike; The Newcastle Conservatoire of Music, by D.H. Thomas.
Volume 15, 1993 (*Out of Print)
Music for a Documentary Film Unit 1950-1980, by John Legard; "Anyhow, About Walton and Lambert", by Angus Morrison; Long Shadows Fall: a study of Ivor Gurney's songs to his own poems, by Richard Carder; Josef Holbrooke and the Music Hall, by Michael Freeman; Block Juxtapositions: a structural principle in the music of Holst and Vaughan Williams, by Edward Macan.
Volume 16, 1994 £4.50
Norman Peterkin (1886-1982), by Alastair Chisholm and Colin Scott- Sutherland; E.J. Moeran - Unpublished Letters and Songs, by Geoffrey Self; From Grimes to Baa Baa: An Opera-goer Celebrates Fifty Years of British Opera, by Stan Meares; Sir Thomas Beecham and English Music, by Jack Douglas.
Volume 17, 1995 £4.50
Gordon Jacob, by Eric Wetherell; Dropped Names: A Nonagenarian Composer's Memorabilia, by Thomas Pitfield; Changing Performance Practice in British Orchestral Music, by Peter Reynolds; Subtexts and Agenda in Sorabji's Opus Clavicembalisticum, by Brian Inglis; From A to B: Kenneth Alford and Hubert Bath, by Kenneth Shenton; E.J. Moeran - Unpublished Letters and Songs: Postscript, by Geoffrey Self.
Volume 18, 1996 £4.50
The Beckwiths of Norwich, by Tom Roast; Bridge in his true colours: the growth of interest in Frank Bridge in the last twenty-five years, by John Bishop; Storm Clouds: a survey of the film music of Arthur Benjamin, by Andrew Youdell; Patrick Hadley, by Eric Wetherell; Benjamin Britten and his works for the guitar, by Stephen Batchelor; Sibelius 7 (the music producing computer system), by Ray & Sara Maidstone; Thomas F Dunhill and Sibelius 7, by Beryl Kington.
Volume 19, 1997 £4.50
Henry Cotter Nixon: The First British Symphonic Poem 'Palamon and Arcite', by Anthony Nixon; Ivor Gurney 'There is deadful hell within me ..' by Pamela Blevins; Tovey's 'The Bride of Dionysus', by Peter Shore; Leslie Heward (1897-1943) '...a true disciple of Orpheus', by Michael Jones; John Jeffreys: An Introduction to his Songs, by Colin Scott-Sutherland.
Volume 20, 1998 £4.50
Philip Sainton (1891-1967) - A Personal Memoir, by Barbara Clark; John Foulds (1890-1939) - The Cello Sonata and its Context, by Malcolm MacDonald; The Songs of Francis George Scott (1880-1958), by Colin Scott-Sutherland; A Misty Mornin', song by Francis George Scott (first publication); On Walton's Late Music, by Jurgen Schaarwachter; Two British Composers as Teachers: Recalling Edmund Rubbra, by Gary Higginson, and Recalling Peter Wishart, by Alastair Pearce; Carol: The Heavenly Kery, by Peter Wishart ( first publication); Sir Donald Tovey: Who was Donald Francis Tovey?, by Margaret Moncrieff and Mary Firth, and Ricketts and 'The Bride of Dionysus', a note by Malcolm MacDonald.
Volume 21, 1999 £4.50
The Music of John Marsh (1752-1828), by Ian Graham-Jones; 'Against All Odds' - The Life and Music of Christopher Edmunds (1899-1990), by Michael Jones; William Baines (1899-1922): The Background to 'Goodnight to Flamboro', by Roger Carpenter, and William Baines - Past and Present, By Robin Walker; The Piano and John McCabe, by Guy Rickards; Cedric Thorpe Davie (1913-1982), by Colin Scott-Sutherland; The First National Congress of the British Music Society (1920), by Roger Carpenter; A Peek into Erik Chisholm's Archives, by Colin Scott-Sutherland. (Also included with this volume, as a separate publication, is a Supplement: The British Music Society - An Unofficial Early History.)
Volume 22, 2000 £5.00
The Solo Songs of Michael Head, by Barbara Streets; Michael Head Remembered, by John Carol Case; The Lark, song by Michael Head (first publication); Alan Bush (1900-1995) - 'Time Remembered', by Michael Jones; Douglas Steele - An Appreciation, by John Turner; Francis Jackson (Part 1), by Robin Walker; An Investigation into the Reputation of Arthur Seymour Sullivan (1842-1900), by Stan Meares; The Dolmetsch Legacy: The Recorder Music Composed for Carl Dolmetsch (1939-1989); William Walton at Ashby St.Ledgers (1942), by Trevor Hold.
Volume 23, 2001 £5.00
To Be a Pilgrim - Malcolm Williamson at 70, by Christopher Austin; Patrick Piggott (1915-1990) - An Introduction, by Colin Scott-Sutherland; Francis Jackson (Part 2), by Robin Walker; Moeran, Warlock and Song, by Stephen Banfield; Discovering Malcolm Davidson (1891-1949), by Lynn Parker; A Christmas Carol, song by Malcolm Davidson; Malcolm Arnold at 80, by Hubert Culot.
Volume 24, 2002 £5.00
Mervyn Roberts (1906-1990), by Colin Scott-Sutherland; Scotsman and Cosmopolitan: Alexander Campbell Mackenzie and the British Choral Movement, by Jurgen Schaarwachter; Alice Mary Smith (1839-1884), by Ian Graham-Jones; Percy Turnbull (1902-1976) - A Centenary Portrait, by Jeremy Dibble; Sir R.R. Terry (1865-1938), by George Sharman; Six Sonnets in Tribute to E.J. Moeran, by Jon Manchip White (with an Introduction by John Talbot); One Morning in Spring, Norfolk folksong collected and arranged by E.J. Moeran (first publication).
Volume 25, 2003 £5.00
The Lennox Berkeley Centenary, by Peter Dickinson; Roger Quilter: Some Afterthoughts, by Valerie Langfield; Bantock Meets the Press: Celebrating the New Music before the First World War, by Lewis Foreman; The EPSS/BMS Golden Jubilee Song Competition, 2002; Edouard Michael, by Hubert Culot; Holst Among Friends: Afterthoughts, by Alan Gibbs; A Reappraisal of W. Vincent Wallace (1812-1865), with new documentary information on his death, by David Grant; Alexander Campbell Mackenzie: Catalogue of Works and Source List, by Jurgen Schaarwachter; Alice Mary Smith: an Update, by Ian Graham-Jones; "Enchanted Summer" (Bax and Balfour Gardiner ), by Colin Scott-Sutherland.
Volume 26, 2004 £5.00
Celebratory Music of the Masters of the Queen's (King's) Musick in the Twentieth Century, by Alastair Mitchell; Frederic Austin - "a most versatile musician", by Martin Lee-Browne; Edwin Rose (1898-1958): the diffident 'genius', by Alan Gibbs; "Waking up England": W.Denis Browne and The Comic Spirit, by Philip Lancaster; "What the Minstrel told us"- Ronald Stevenson, Bax and the North, by Colin Scott-Sutherland.
Volume 27, 2005 £5.00
Alan Rawsthorne: Towards Unity, by John McCabe; The Constancy of Lambert, by Stephen Lloyd; The Music of Thomas Attwood, by Alastair Mitchell; William Alwyn at 100, by Hubert Culot; John Parry's Nightingale, by John Turner; Matyas Seiber and the Dorian Singers, by Alan Gibbs; Overshadowed: British Symphonism beyond Parry, Stanford and Elgar, by Jurgen Schaawachter; Scott and Arnold:Is the Symphony out-dated?, by Ian Parrott.Volume 28, 2006 £5.00
John Ireland and Charles Markes: a creative relationship, by George Dannatt; My Memories of Grace Williams (190601977) and her music, by Ian Parrott; Bristol's Music and Musicians in region, nation and empire, by Stephen Banfield; Jaunting Car: the compositions of Peter Hope, by John Turner; Benjamin Frankel: his life and work, by Dimitri Kennaway.
Volume 29, 2007 £5.00
Granville Bantock and Ernest Newman, by Lewis Foreman; Richard Arnell: a little Ninetieth Birthday tribute, by Paul R. W. Jackson; Holst, Purcell and Morley College, by Alan Gibbs; John Ireland's Piano Sonata: the 1951 revision, by John Talbot; Music in Birmingham 1392 to 2006, by Margaret Handford; Elaine Hugh-Jones at Eighty, by Michael Jones; Tobias Matthay (1858-1945) and his Pupils, by Colin Scott-Sutherland.
MONOGRAPHS
- an occasional series of publications:
BENJAMIN BURROWS AND SOME OF HIS POETS (BMS Monograph No. 1) £5.00
by Brian Blyth Daubney
This book celebrates the centenary of the birth of Benjamin Burrows on 20th October 1891 and contains notes on a number of his song settings to words by A.E. Housman, Walter de la Mare, Shakespeare, Robert Burns and others. Some of the songs are contained on the British Music Society cassette Songs of Benjamin Burrows (BMS 403). There are many music examples.
EDWARD THOMAS AND JOHN IRELAND (BMS Monograph No. 2) £5.00
by Colin Scott-Sutherland
This book is a personal reflection by the author on parallels between the poet and the composer. There are a number of photographs and line drawings in the text and also many music examples.
ARNOLD COOKE (BMS Monograph No. 3) £5.00
by Eric Wetherell
A publication to celebrate the 90th birthday of Arnold Cooke on 4th November 1996. The book opens with a brief biography of Cooke, followed by a chapter setting out details of his musical education and idiom. Then follow chapters on the various aspects of his musical oeuvre. Finally, there is a list of Cooke's compositions which are referred to in the book, ranging from small scale works for piano solo, to symphonies and concertos. Edited by Beryl Kington.
GOODNIGHT TO FLAMBORO’ The Life and Music of WILLIAM BAINES (BMS Monograph No. 4) £10.99
by Roger Carpenter
"Mr. Carpenter’s monograph is a valuable and illuminating document about a loveable musician. On this showing, his name, like that of his mentor Eaglefield-Hull, earns a place in the list of musical Yorkshiremen, including Frederick Delius and Eric Fenby, whose musical work has enriched the British cultural heritage." © Felix Aprahamian (extract from review)
Decorations by Richard A. Bell 210x148mm, 120pp plus 8pp of photographs. 5 facsims, 34 music exx
PARROTTCISMS The Autobiography of Ian Parrott (BMS Monograph No.5) £8.99
Notwithstanding that he was born in London, Ian Parrott at the age of eighty-seven is the doyen of Welsh music. As the composer, among much else, of five symphonies, five string quartets and four operas, as Gregynog professor of Music in the University College of Wales for thirty-three years, and as an Elgar and Warlock authority and biographer, he has been at the heart of British musical life since the 1930s.
The British Music Society is pleased to announce publication of this absorbing autobiography, which charts a still very active career with characteristic wit and insight. Copiously illustrated, this 112-page volume also includes a selection of earlier articles by the author and a definitive list of compositions complete up to March 2003, together with a full bibliography and discography.
MISCELLANEOUS
PUBLICATIONS
ASPECTS OF BRITISH SONG £6.00
A miscellany of essays on sundry aspects of British song by a variety of authors. The book was published following the British Music Society's successful British Song Composer Year in 1991/2, which culminated in November 1992 with the biennial BMS Music Awards which in that year were for singers. The composers featured range from William Byrd to Peter Wishart, including many masters of British song. The book is edited by Brian Blyth Daubney.
BRITISH COMPOSER PROFILES (2nd edition) £6.25
A biographical dictionary and chronology of British composers from 1800-1989, compiled by Gerald Leach, and published to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the British Music Society. The book contains brief profiles of 490 British composers followed by a chronological listing, and is a quick and handy reference guide.
BRITISH OPERA IN RETROSPECT £6.00
British Opera in Retrospect was a project to encourage the performance of neglected operas by British composers, and was sponsored and organized by the British Music Society for European Music Year, 1985. The book lists the operas performed as part of the project, gives details of the winners of the competition, and includes a series of articles providing a general introduction to British opera.
LOST AND ONLY SOMETIMES FOUND £6.50
This is an expanded publication based on the proceedings of the May 1990 BMS seminar on music publishers and their archives. It includes talks on Havergal Brian, the British Library, Edward German and Arthur Sullivan, the demise of the London Palladium Library, film music, practical concert promotion, and Ethel Smyth. Edited by Lewis Foreman.
BRITISH CHORAL MUSIC £8.95
GRANVILLE BANTOCK Pagan Symphony £15.00* A facsimile of the composer's MS full score, published by Joseph Williams in 1936. 10" x 7", 279 pagesGRANVILLE BANTOCK Song of Songs £12.50* The vocal score of this work for soloists, chorus and orchestra, published by Swan & Co in 1922. 305 pages
* Members' discounts do not apply to the above two publications, and special rates apply for postage overseas.
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