Examines the trajectories, linearities and paradoxes which have constituted contemporary British music. Provides an account of how British music came to be what

Explores the musical background to Darwinism and the development of the relationship between science and the arts in Victorian Britain.

Music and Performance Culture in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Essays in Honour of Nicholas Temperley is the first book to focus upon aspects of performance in th

This book makes a substantial collection of Vaughan Williams's writings widely available to music lovers, students, and researchers alike. It comprises 102 item

Articles on English music, from the medieval period to the present day, centred on four of the major areas of scholarly enquiry. The major themes of the essays