Tonality and (the) "beyond": Elgar's Gerontius and string quartet Piacevole
This chapter explores Edward Elgar’s evocation of “the beyond” – the state of purgatory – through musical means in his oratorio The Dream of Gerontius (1900). Commonality but also key differences, between the composition’s prelude to Act II and a later work, the second-movement Piacevole from Elgar’...
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Routledge
2024
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