J. P. E. Harper-Scott is Temporary Lecturer in Music at Royal Holloway, University of London. He studied at the University of Durham and at Magdalen College, Oxford. His essays on Elgar have been published in 19th-Century Music and Music Analysis, and he is a contributor to The Cambridge Companion to Elgar. He is the co-editor, with Julian Rushton, of an essay collection, Elgar Studies (Cambridge, 2007). This is his first book.
Preface
Glossary
1. Styles and ideas
2. A Heideggerian refinement of Shenker's theory
3. Immuring and immured tonalities: tonal malaise in the First Symphony, Op. 55
4. 'Fracted and corroborate': narrative implications of form and tonality in Falstaff, Op. 68
5. Hermeneutics and mimesis
6. The annihilation of hope and the unpicking of identity: Elgarian hermeneutics
7. Modern music, modern man
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