The Cambridge Companion to Elgar

Contents

• Notes on contributors
• Acknowledgements
• Bibliographical abbreviations
• Chronology
• List of volumes in the Elgar Complete Edition (Elgar Society Edition)
• 1. Introduction Daniel M. Grimley and Julian Rushton
• 2. Elgar and his British contemporaries Jeremy Dibble
• 3. Elgar and his publishers Robert Anderson
• 4. Magic by mosaic: some aspects of Elgar's compositional methods Christopher Kent
• 5. Elgar's musical language: the shorter instrumental works Diana McVeagh
• 6. The early choral works Robin Holloway
• 7. Elgar's later oratorios: Roman Catholicism, decadence and the Wagnerian dialectic of shame and grace Byron Adams
• 8. Roman Catholicism and being musically English: Elgar's church and organ music John Butt
• 9. 'A smiling with a sigh': the chamber music and works for strings Daniel M. Grimley
• 10. In search of the symphony: orchestral music to 1908 Julian Rushton
• 11. Orchestral music from 1908-34 Christopher Mark
• 12. Elgar's unwumbling: the theatre music J. P. E. Harper-Scott
• 13. Elgar and recording Timothy Day
• 14. Elgar and the BBC Jenny Doctor
• 15. Elgar's German critics Aidan Thomson
• 16. Functional music: imperialism, the Great War, and Elgar as popular composer Charles Edward McGuire
• Notes
• Select bibliograpy
• Index.