| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Frontcover; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgements; List of Library Sigla; Introduction; I Public Indiscretions, Private Confessions: Scott's Life and Influences; 1 Matters of Biography, Autobiography and Anonymity; 2 "Music, Melancholy, Apprehension, Sex, and the Church"; 3 "An Artist-Autocrat of the Most Pronounced Type"; 4 "The Most Absorbing and Romantic Interest of My Present Incarnation"; II Artist, Priest, Prophet: Scott's Aesthetic Thinking; 5 Music: Its Secret Influence Throughout the Ages; 6 The Immortal Artist; 7 Theory and Practice; Epilogue; Select Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
Cyril Scott (1879-1970) was considered one of the most promising young talents in modern British music at the turn of the twentieth century. Scott was not merely a composer but an artist in the broadest possible sense of the term, whose aesthetic ideas informed both his creative practice and his manner of living. The story of Scott's development guides the reader through some of the most fascinating intellectual discourses of European modernity |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on Mar. 25, 2013) |
| Subject |
Scott, Cyril, 1879-1970
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| SUBJECT |
Scott, Cyril, 1879-1970 fast |
| Subject |
Composers -- Great Britain -- Biography
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Composers & Musicians.
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MUSIC -- Individual Composer & Musician.
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MUSIC -- History & Criticism.
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Composers
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Great Britain
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781782041207 |
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1782041206 |
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