The Cambridge Companion to Elgar
- Editor: Grimley, Daniel M.
- Editor: Rushton, Julian
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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.