by Peter Parker
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