Joseph Holbrooke

This is the first scholarly work to document the musical contribution of Joseph Holbrooke, one of Britain’s most controversial composers during the first half of the twentieth century. Paul Watt and Anne-Marie Forbes have gathered a team of scholars who focuses on the musical and literary life of the composer.

Paul Watt is a senior lecturer in musicology in the Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music, Monash University. Anne-Marie Forbes is a senior lecturer in musicology at the Conservatorium of Music, Tasmanian College of the Arts, University of Tasmania.

List of Figures List of Tables List of Abbreviations Acknowledgments Chronology of Holbrooke's Life and Music Chapter 1: Situating Holbrooke in British Musical History Paul Watt and Anne-Marie Forbes Chapter 2: Joseph Holbrooke: A Life in Outline Rob Barnett Chapter 3: Friendship with Granville Bantock David Craik Chapter 4: Celtic Connections and T.E. Ellis Anne-Marie Forbes Chapter 5: Holbrooke's Chamber Music and the Specter of Mass Culture Paul Hopwood Chapter 6: Holbrooke and Chamber Opera: Pierrot and Pierette and The Enchanted Garden Paul Rodmell Chapter 7: Holbrooke and Poe Revisited: Refiguring The Raven as the Musical Uncanny Michael Allis Chapter 8: A "Nationalist in Art": Holbrooke's Contemporary British Composers (1925) Paul Watt Appendix 1: Catalog of Works Appendix 2: Music Inspired by Welsh Subjects Appendix 3: Discography References Index List of Contributors