Symphonic Poem in Britain, 1850-1950

MICHAEL ALLIS is Professor of Musicology at the University of Leeds. 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. 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), The Music of Frederick Delius (2021) and Charles Villers Stanford: Man and Musician (revised and expanded edition, 2024). MICHAEL ALLIS is Professor of Musicology at the University of Leeds. 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 WattNarrative and Formal Plasticity in the British Symphonic Poem, 1850-1950 - Jeremy DibbleThe Symphonic Poem and British Music Criticism - Paul WattRichard Strauss's Tone Poems in Britain, 1890-1950 - David LarkinFrench Connections: Debussy and Ravel's Orchestral Music in Britain from Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune to Boléro - Barbara L. KellyThe 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 AllisGustav Holst's Beni Mora and the Orientalist Imagination - Christopher ScheerSymphonic Poetry, 1914: Parry's From Death To Life - Benedict TaylorJohn Ireland's Mai-Dun: Composite Influences - Fiona RichardsFrank Bridge: Poems of Re-enchantment - Jonathan Clinch

[A] landmark contribution to both symphonic poem and broader British music areas of study. Every single chapter within presents important research and offers keen insights into its corresponding topic. This is all the work of skilled and experienced scholars, and it shows. . . . In the likely event that any other scholarship relating to the symphonic poem in Britain is to be published, it will almost certainly owe something to this fantastic collection.