British Organ Music of the Twentieth Century

This is the first book-length survey of 20th -century British music for solo organ. Beginning with a discussion of British organ music in the last decades of the Victorian era, the book focuses on the pieces that the composers wrote, their musical style, possible influences on the composition of specific works, and the details of their composition.

Chapter 1 List of Plates
Chapter 2 Preface
Chapter 3 1 British Organ Music at the Dawn of the Century
Chapter 4 2 Hubert Parry
Chapter 5 3 Charles Stanford
Chapter 6 4 Basil Harwood
Chapter 7 5 The Pivotal Role of the Royal College of Music: Walter Alcock and Charles Wood
Chapter 8 6 William Faulkes, William Wolstenholme, Alfred Hollins, and Edwin Lemare
Chapter 9 7 Ralph Vaughan Williams and Frank Bridge
Chapter 10 8 Edward Bairstow
Chapter 11 9 John Ireland, William Harris, and Harold Darke
Chapter 12 10 Healey Willan
Chapter 13 11 Herbert Howells
Chapter 14 12 Percy Whitock
Chapter 15 13 Celebratory Music
Chapter 16 14 New Wine in Old Bottles
Chapter 17 15 Three Midcentury Composers of Gebrauchsmusik: Alec Rowley, Eric Thiman, and William Lloyd Webber
Chapter 18 16 Francis Jackson
Chapter 19 17 Serialism
Chapter 20 18 Peter Fricker
Chapter 21 19 Arthur Wills
Chapter 22 20 Kenneth Leighton
Chapter 23 21 Malcolm Williamson
Chapter 24 22 Avant-Garde Program Music after 1950
Chapter 25 23 Maxwell Davies
Chapter 26 24 William Mathias
Chapter 27 25 Alan Ridout
Chapter 28 26 Roman Catholic Organ Music and Colin Mawby
Chapter 29 27 The Path Taken in the Twentieth Century and a Look at What May Lie Ahead
Chapter 30 Catalogue of Works
Chapter 31 Music Acknowledgments
Chapter 32 Bibliography
Chapter 33 Index
Chapter 34 About the Author