CONTEMPORARY BRITISH MUSIC The Twenty-Five Years from 1945 to 1970 By FRANCIS ROUTH (First published 1972)   CONTENTS Preface I Introduction - British music up to 1939 II The establishment of a tradition 1 William Walton 2 Alan Rawsthorne 3 William Alwyn 4 Edmund Rubbra 5 Arnold Cooke III The development of a tradition 6 Humphrey Searle 7 Denis ApIvor 8 Thea Musgrave 9 Don Banks IV British by choice. The influence of other traditions 10 Franz Reizenstein 11 Matyas Seiber 12 Egon Wellesz 13 Roberto Gerhard 14 Andrzej Panufnik V The evolution of a tradition 15 Benjamin Britten 16 Peter Maxwell Davies 17 Peter Racine Fricker 18 Anthony Milner 19 Michael Tippett VI The contemporary scene 20 Electronic Music and the Avant-Garde 21 Serialism and Romanticism 22 Lennox Berkeley and Priaulx Rainier 23 Teacher/Composers VII Appendices (not included in this web version) VIII Select Bibliography (not included in this web version)   Note This web version, reproduced here with the kind permission of the author, is not an exact facsimile of the printed original. Footnotes are shown next to their entry in squared brackets: [....], plates are not reproduced and the extensive but ephemeral appendices have been omitted. Italics have been removed in interests of speed of text capture. Anomalously I have included the page number cross references but these will not tie in to the web pages. They are simply an indication that another reference to the subject can be found elsewhere in the work. If you notice scanning or reproduction errors then please draw them to the attention of rob.barnett@ukgateway.net. From time to time we may issue corrected pages. All rights in this work are the sole property of Francis Routh and this work may not be copied or reproduced in any form except with the prior written permission of Mr Routh. First published by Macdonald London (1972) SBN 356 03773 8 It is still possible to find second-hand copies of this book. Since October 2001 you are visitor number