The Oxford History of English Music Volume II c.1715 to the Present Day [Hardcover]

The Oxford History of English Music, Volume 2 takes the story of English Music from c.1715 to the present day. Apart from discussing the music of the principal composers, it focuses to a certain extent on the work of lesser musicians, and includes developments in light and popular music as well as in serious genres. After seven chapters in which the main events are considered chronologically, a further chapter deals specifically with folk music and popular music of all periods, and a final chapter covers social issues not otherwise handled in detail. There are over a hundred musical examples, illustrating all chapters except the last, and all based on original sources.

1. Handel and his English Contemporaries, c.1715-c.1760
2. The Later Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries, 1760-1815
3. From the Later Georgian to the Mid-Victorian Age
4. Later Victorian Music and the `English Renaissance', 1870-1914
5. Post-romanticism, 1914-1945
6. Tradition and Avant-Garde, 1945-1975
7. Modernism and Post-modernism, 1976-1996
8. Folk Music and Popular Music
9. England and Its Music
Bibliography
Index

...[there is] much that is admirable in this volume... it is an example of the highest production standards - elegantly printed, full of beautifully engraved music examples. --Times Literary Supplement