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  Here in our quiet    quoted Hart, p. 15

  the most beautiful    R. Brooke, Letters, p. 598

  IV. English Music

  epigraph    ‘Mr Housman and the Composers’, Sunday Times, 29 Oct 1922, p. 7

  wonderful air    Barry Marsh, ‘Borderland Interlude: E.J. Moeran in Herefordshire’ (1994) at www.moeran.net

  played at    Lionel Hill, p. 50

  He took us    Ibid.

  with whom any    Quoted Stallworthy, p. 469

  I am tempted    Evening Standard on 17 June 1938, quoted GRH, p. 88

  I wish they    To P.G.L. Webb, 17 June 1896, Letters I, p. 88

  all but about ‘Mr. Housman and the Composers’, Sunday Times, 29 Oct 1922, quoted William White in Music & Letters Vol. 24, No. 4 (Oct 1943), p. 218

  He cared little    GRH, p. 394

  Good critical taste    Ibid., p. 448

  I am sorry    To Oliver Robinson, 23 Nov 1933, Letters II, p. 390

  Considering the evidence    Music & Letters, Vol. 25, No. 1 (Jan 1944), p. 60

  had a pleasant    Ibid., p. 61

  My dear Sir    To Arthur Somervell, 19 Sept 1904, private collection

  I always give    18 Aug 1906, Letters I, p. 199

  helped themselves    GRH, p. 88

  mattered nothing    Withers, p. 69

  Hell Gate    LP XXXI

  the orchestra    To LH, 11 March 1936, Letters II, p. 526

  I don’t allow    9 Feb 1927, ibid., p. 10

  Never before    Sunday Times, 29 Oct 1922, p. 7

  It has more    J.A. Westrup in Barker, Character, p. 399

  The choral festivals    Ibid., p. 404

  the only cultured    http://www.musicweb-international.com/dasland.htm#ixzz2PItm1Yht

  His black hair    Hardy, Vol. 1, p. 286

  the English are not    Haweis, pp. 483, 486

  until music is    Ibid., pp. 486, 485

  We must not    Ibid., pp. 553–4

  the only English composer    David Wright, ‘The South Kensington Music Schools and the Development of the British Conservatoire in the Late Nineteenth Century’, Journal of the Royal Musical Association, Vol. 130, No. 2 (2005), p. 242

  To establish    Ibid., p. 241

  not remember    Ibid., p. 238

  when a principal    Ibid., p. 251

  more and better    Hughes and Stradling, p. 32

  pastures of Berkshire    Music in England, pp. 11–12

  Although the rural    Introduction to the Study of National Music, p. 173

  and circulated    Hullah, Preface

  English musicians    Engel, pp. 99–100

  primary object    ‘A Folk-Song Function’, Musical Times, 1 March 1899, p. 168

  where the jerry-builder    Ibid.

  after a long illness    Karpeles, Cecil Sharp, p. 23

  a strange procession    Ibid., p. 25

  good, strong    Ibid., p. 26

  dances, also    Sharp, p. 173

  English folk songs    Ibid., p. 172

  simple ditties    Ibid., pp. 173–4

  When Miss Carrie    Ashwell, p. 27

  the quickening    Sharp, ‘The Country Dance’, Musical Times, 1 November 1915, p. 660

  At one point    Ashwell, pp. 178–9

  The spiritual essence    Hughes and Stradling, p. 180

  not many of the men    Karpeles, Cecil Sharp, p. 173

  had been put    Ibid., p. 32

  I had that sense    Quoted in booklet for CD Vaughan Williams Folksong Arrangements (EMI B0018OAP34, 2008)

  Such a wealth    Sharp, p. vii

  Since the war    6 May 1916, quoted in Colls and Dodd

  I am still at heart    Quoted in Marshall, p. 19

  biographical sketch    ‘Edward Elgar’, Musical Times, Vol. 41, No. 692 (1 Oct 1900), pp. 641–8

  descended from    Ibid.

  worthy to be    Langland, p. xxviii

  his home    Quoted ibid., p. xxiv

  draw their inspiration    Elgar, p. 51

  Don’t play it    Quoted Marshall, p. 35

  it’s only me    Quoted ibid., pp. 32, 34

  cursed    Barry Marsh, ‘Borderland Interlude: E.J. Moeran in Herefordshire’ (1994) at www.moeran.net

  It was in his    Quoted Marshall, p. 49

  truly lyrical qualities    Edwin Evans, ‘English Song and “On Wenlock Edge”’, Musical Times, 1 June 1918, p. 147

  Mr. Housman’s book    Ernest Newman, ‘Concerning “A Shropshire Lad” and other matters’, Musical Times, 1 Sept 1918, p. 393

  I have no objection    To GR, 22 June 1903, Letters I, p. 149

  amongst the best    Musical Times, 1 March 1905, p. 188

  would seem to    Ibid.

  The lads    The usually reliable Stephen Banfield, notes for the CD Somervell: Maude & A Shropshire Lad (Hyperion Helios CDH55089, 2001)

  broad and manly treatment    ‘New Songs’, The Times, 8 Sept 1905, p. 2

  a miniature tragedy    The Times, 26 Jan 1909, quoted Banfield, pp. 234–5

  remarkable for accurate    The Times, 16 Nov 1909, p. 14

  I wonder    To GR, 20 Dec 1920, Letters I, p. 458

  the composer has    Quoted GRH, p. 221

  Vaughan Williams’s setting    Newman, Musical Times, 1 Sept 1918, p. 397

  he could no more    Smith, p. 91

  a pastime for cranks    Karpeles, Cecil Sharp, p. 173

  It has often been    Smith, pp. 90–1

  the emphasis shifts    Stephen Banfield, ‘A Shropshire Lad in the making: A Note on the composition of George Butterworth’s Songs’, The Music Review XLII (1981), p. 263

  Only those who    ‘Memoir by R.O.M.’ in Smith, p. 17

  seems only to    Johnson, p. 43

  much too flippant    Letter, 5 June 1905, quoted Murphy, p. 41

  a quiet little heaven    Morton, p. 257

  I remember    Ibid.

  in the nature    Butterworth’s programme note for the first London performance of the piece, quoted in Barlow, p. 99

  the title has    Butterworth to Herbert Thompson, 1 June 1913, in Foreman, From Parry, p. 55

  be careful of    Butterworth to Herbert Thompson, n.d., in ibid., p. 56

  our one really    Quoted Barlow, p. 106

  Midsummer 1916    Dated MS: John Talbot, booklet for Chandos CD E.J. Moeran: Complete Solo Songs (2010), CHAN 10596 (2)

  altered the way    Quoted Banfield, p. 131

  to breathe the    Quoted Roy Palmer, booklet for British Music Society CD E.J. Moeran: Folksong Arrangements (2010), BMS438CD

  A ‘national’ movement    Newman, Musical Times, 1 Sept 1918, p. 394

  These poems are    Ibid.

  it varies, of course    Ibid.

  musical sentiment    Ibid.

  There is in modern    Ibid., p. 249

  Purely English    Quoted by Philip Lancaster in booklet for Linn Records CD of On Wenlock Edge sung by James Gilchrist (CKD 296, 2007)

  Mr I.B. Gurney    16 May 1908, Letters I, p. 219

  something of great importance    M. Hurd, p. 24

  Why does he bother?    Quoted ibid., p. 28

  For one thing    Music and Letters, Vol. 19, No. 1 (Jan 1938), p. 3

  a view of    Quoted M. Hurd, p. 45

  Pot
entially he is    Music and Letters, Vol. 19, No. 1 (Jan 1938), p. 14

  I have done 5    Quoted M. Hurd, p. 37

  the special Glory    Gurney, Collected Letters, p. 8

  appeals and scorn    Quoted M. Hurd, p. 53

  I suppose you    8 April 1915, Gurney, Collected Letters, p. 17. The quotation is from Thomas Hood

  the beauty of my    Ibid., pp. 40, 43

  When I can lie    Letter to Matilda Chapman, Oct 1915, ibid., p. 53

  When I am old    To Marion Scott, Sept 1915, Gurney, War Letters, pp. 36–7

  If you could write    June 1916, Gurney, Collected Letters, p. 96

  This autumnal morning    Ibid., p. 144

  I wait for    13 Feb 1917, ibid., p. 208

  once in England    Ibid., p. 289

  Here I am    Ibid., p. 145

  He’s gone      Gurney, Poems, p. 41

  Western      See, for example, Gurney, Collected Letters, pp. 192, 208

  The beautiful Cotswold      TLS, 22 Nov 1917, issue 827, p. 570

  I find a store    Gurney, Collected Letters, p. 46

  You are right    Ibid., p. 180

  Another Gloucestershire Lad    Quoted ibid., p. 381

  Do you know    To Marion Scott, 10 March 1917, ibid., pp. 223–4

  once again I feel    To M. Scott, 30 April 1917, Gurney, War Letters, p. 158

  In my head    To M. Scott, 11 June 1917, ibid., p. 168

  Well, here comes    To M. Scott, 24 Dec 1917, Gurney, Collected Letters, p. 385

  English at the core    To M. Scott, 11 Jan 1918, Gurney, War Letters, p. 238

  had just rediscovered    Music & Letters, Vol. 19, No. 1 (Jan 1938)

  had the same sickness To M. Scott, 29 Nov 1917, ibid., p. 234

  This proved    Quoted M. Hurd, p. 168

  a pleasant country place    Quoted Lewis Foreman, booklet for Chandos CD Ireland: A Downland Suite, etc (1995), CHAN 9376

  In the verse    J. Brooke, Orchid, p. 256

  Ireland’s music    Jocelyn Brooke, London Magazine, April 1965, in Foreman, Ireland, p. 350

  a country of the mind    J. Brooke, Dog, p. 100

  an old French nursery rhyme    To Charles Williams, 8 March 1930, Letters II, p. 175

  Schubert might have approved    Quoted Banfield, p. 302

  Refuse.    To GR, 6 Oct 1930, Letters II, 209

  too much like    Banfield, p. 306

  indigestible    Ibid., p. 304

  If a composer    Quoted ibid., p. 399

  never found any    Quoted ibid., p. 301

  I must confess    Eugene Goossens to C.W. Orr, 23 Jan 1935, Foreman, From Parry, p. 182

  in October of that year    The London performance is usually listed as the work’s (partial) premiere, but the Bradford performance is recorded in the Musical Times, 1 May 1927, p. 458.

  After regaling us    Quoted in Palmer, p. 16

  combined these three    Introduction to 1935 CBS broadcast from the Columbia Workshop, available on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwqyrYNr_ts

  since the Shropshire Lad    Lambert, p. 205

  There have been many    Kildea, Britten on Music, p. 402

  very much affected    John France, ‘Julius Harrison & Bredon Hill’ (2007) on MusicWeb-International: http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2007/Jan07/Harrison.htm

  on a perfect summer    BBC broadcast in the North American Transmission, 29 Sept 1941, in Foreman, From Parry, p. 240

  we mustn’t forget    Ibid., pp. 240–1

  It is a fact remarkable    Transcript of BBC Overseas Service Transmission, 29 September 1941, ibid., p. 241

  V. English Soldiers

  epigraph, Browne, p. 84

  could not think    Quoted Bonham-Carter, p. 234

  he was to quote them again    Churchill, 1911–1914, p. 42

  One feels Housman      Encounter, May 1973, p. 68

  marched off to Gallipoli      Swift, p. 140

  ’Twas my good fortune      Farquhar, p. 3

  He made a poetical    Hazlitt, p. 3

  I think of all    To Lucy Housman, 9 Jan 1875, Letters I, p. 7

  The only one    Bromsgrove, p. 26

  The book that Alfred    Bourne, Soldier, p. 67

  I went into ‘Tommy’, Barrack-Room Ballads (First Series)

  Probably you would    Bourne, Soldier, p. 67

  was particularly captivated    To LH, 20 March 1896, Letters I, p. 85

  I sit beside    Silkin, p. 119

  The Great War    To M. Pollet, 5 Feb 1933, Letters II, p. 329

  Hope lies to mortals    MP VI

  Too old to fight    KES in Recollections, p. 34

  Epitaph on an Army    LP XXXVII

  As I gird on    LP II

  Her strong enchantments    LP III

  Oh hard is the bed    LP IV

  Here dead we lie    MP XXXVI

  some verses that I wrote    To KES, 5 Oct 1915, Letters I, p. 346

  does in eight lines    Darling, p. 216

  the finest    Quoted Lycett, p. 582

  knew all the sceptical    Connolly, pp. 233, 239

  For over all life    Mackail, pp. 64–5

  Of course I have    To M. Pollet, 5 Feb 1933, Letters II, p. 329

  An English boy    Quoted Birkin, p. 175

  who are Nature’s    Saki, p. 579

  To have reached thirty    Quoted Parker, p. 93

  year in, year out    Quoted Birkin, p. 262

  You were able to    Quoted Fletcher, p. 265

  They carry back    See Fletcher, plate 31

  I implore you    Knox, p. 154

  the country    Ibid., p. 114

  It is the luckiest    24 Feb 1915, quoted ibid., p. 112

  diminishes the sale    To GR, 5 Dec 1916, Letters I, p. 371

  We all had    Interview recorded for the Imperial War Museum: http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/80009542

  Like many of our generation    Quoted HSJ 30 (2004), p. 140

  favourite pocket-book    Darling, pp. 215–16

  Hopper or Cooper    Ibid., p. 216

  I first read    Evan Pughe, quoted Weber, p. 121

  on a visit to the front    Adcock, p. 120

  because so many soldiers    To MJJ, 19 Oct 1922, Letters I, p. 517

  The man smiled    GRH, p. 155

  had almost a hope    To KES, 5 Oct 1915, Letters I, p. 346

  It is not so curious    Adcock, pp. 120–1

  move to the sound    Quoted Weber, p. 122

  I always feel    LH, War Letters, p. 68

  England remains    Sorley, Letters, p. 275

  an account of    Quoted Hollis, p. 171

  This is an anthology    Thomas, This England, p. iii

  Literally, for this    Quoted Hollis, p. 287

  It seemed to me that    The Nation, 7 November 1914, p. 171

  All I can say    Ibid., p. 170

  I found myself observing    Sassoon, Weald, pp. 275–8

  normal, even ordinary man    R. Brooke, Prose, p. 195

  Something was growing    Ibid., p. 199

  there rose up    Morton, pp. 1–2

  his earliest memories    Bartholomew, p. 2

  Would it not be    Morton, p. 2

  I took the vo
w      Ibid., pp. 2–3

  The homesickness      Blythe, p. 62

  The noble expanse      Turner, p. 132

  I take it that England    Thomas, Last Sheaf, pp. 102–3

  Since the war    Ibid., p. 109

  I think England    Ibid., p. 111

  Here’s luck    Harvey, p. 6

  The poems are written    Ibid., p. viii

  How it brings back    15 August 1915, in Tapert, pp. 26–7. [I have corrected a misreading of ‘Penkridge’, which is reproduced by Tapert as ‘Penbridge’.]

  I read Richard Jefferies    To the Master of Marlborough, 25 June 1915, Sorley, Letters, p. 281

  I wish I could    30 March 1917, Sassoon, Diaries 1915–1918, pp. 146–7

  What is there    LH, War Letters, p. 225

  To the average man    Rhys, p. v

  The practical use    ‘Editor’s Note’ in ibid., p. viii

  chosen chiefly    Ibid., pp. viii–ix

  from cover to cover    The Times, 30 Aug 1915, p. 7

  symbolize the cause    Ibid.

  carry the message    The Times, 3 Sept 1903, p. 9

  not designed to    Ibid.

  Old magazines    Hurst, pp. 59–60

  yearly sales    Figures quoted in R.P. Graves, p. 174

  Siegfried Sassoon    Moorcroft-Wilson, Sassoon, p. 555

  purchased his copy from Harold Monro’s    Hibberd, Wilfred Owen, pp. 212–13

  the old road where    Thomas, Collected Poems, p. 120

  A Private    Ibid., p. 50

  as a language-maker    Sorley, Letters, p. 49

  I do not know much    Ibid., p. 50

  Thomas Hardy cannot    Prewett, p. 13

  A lad to life    Ibid., p. 59

  this was ‘all right’    Seymour-Smith, p. 432

  distinct Housman echoes    R. Graves, Fairies, pp. 14, 28, 5; Graves, Selected Poems, p. 32

  Housman’s greatest contribution    Fussell, Great War, pp. 282–3

  His iron quatrains    Encounter, May 1973, p. 68

  Time was in summer    Freston, p. 52

  The Garden of Death    Ibid., p. 77

  The hills of Cheshire    Hibberd, Owen the Poet, p. 2

  bring me Shropshire    To Colin Owen, 10 Aug 1914, Owen, Letters, p. 428; to Susan Owen, 16 May 1917, ibid., p. 462

  Harold’s boots    Harold Owen, p. 176. For the poem, see Owen, Poems (Stallworthy), p. 170

 

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