CONTENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- PART I: MUSICAL LIFE AND ENGLISH MUSIC -- 1 The Romantic Movement and Its Results -- 2 A School of English Music -- 3 The Soporific Finale -- 4 Good Taste -- 5 A Sermon to Vocalists -- 6 Preface to The English Hymnal -- 7 Who Wants the English Composer? -- 8 British Music -- 9 Gervase Elwes -- 10 Introduction to English Music -- 11 Elizabethan Music and the Modern World -- 12 Sir Donald Tovey -- 13 A. H. Fox Strangways, AET. LXXX -- 14 Making Your Own Music -- 15 Local Musicians -- 16 The Composer in Wartime -- 17 Introduction to News Chronicle Musical Competition Festival for HM Forces -- 18 First Performances -- 19 Art and Organisation -- 20 Choral Singing -- 21 Carthusian Music in the Eighties -- 22 Howland Medal Lecture -- 23 Preface to London Symphony -- 24 Introduction to The Art of Singing -- 25 Some Reminiscences of the English Hymnal -- 26 Hands off the Third -- PART II: CONTINENTAL COMPOSERS -- 27 Palestrina and Beethoven -- 28 Bach and Schumann -- 29 The Words of Wagner's Music Dramas -- 30 Brahms and Tchaikovsky -- 31 Ein Heldenleben -- 32 The Romantic in Music: Some Thoughts on Brahms -- 33 Verdi: A Symposium -- 34 Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) -- 35 Sibelius at 90: Greatness and Popularity -- PART III: FOLK SONG -- 36 Preface [to a Folk Song Collection] -- 37 Introduction to Folk Songs from the Eastern Counties -- 38 English Folk-Songs -- 39 Folk-Song in Chamber Music -- 40 Dance Tunes -- 41 Sailor Shanties -- 42 How to Sing a Folk-Song -- 43 The Late Mr Frank Kidson -- 44 Lucy Broadwood: An Appreciation -- 45 Ella Mary Leather -- 46 Folk-Song -- 47 Cecil Sharp's Accompaniments -- 48 Arthur Somervell -- 49 Cecil James Sharp (1859-1924) -- 50 Traditional Arts in the Twentieth Century -- 51 The Justification of Folk Song.

52 Let Us Remember . . . Early Days -- 53 Preface [Celebrating the Foundation of the Folk Song Society] -- 54 Lucy Broadwood, 1858-1929 -- 55 Appeal on Behalf of the English Folk Dance and Song Society -- 56 Preface to Index of English Songs -- 57 Address to the Fifth Conference of the International Folk Music Council -- 58 Cecil Sharp: An Appreciation -- 59 Preface to International Catalogue of Recorded Folk Music -- 60 Martin Shaw -- 61 Preface to Folksong-Plainsong -- 62 The Diamond Jubilee of the Folk Song Society -- 63 The English Folk Dance and Song Society -- 64 Introduction to Classic English Folk Songs -- PART IV: BRITISH COMPOSERS -- 65 Sir Hubert Parry -- 66 Charles Villiers Stanford, by Some of His Pupils -- 67 Introductory Talk to Holst Memorial Concert -- 68 A Note on Gustav Holst -- 69 Gustav Theodore Holst (1874-1934) -- 70 Foreword to Eight Concerts of Henry Purcell's Music -- 71 Gustav Holst: A Great Composer -- 72 The Teaching of Parry and Stanford -- 73 Gerald Finzi: 1901-1956 -- 74 Mr Gerald Finzi: A Many-Sided Man -- 75 Elgar Today -- PART V: PROGRAMME NOTES ON VAUGHAN WILLIAMS'S MUSIC -- 76 Heroic Elegy and Triumphal Epilogue -- 77 Pan's Anniversary -- 78 A Sea Symphony -- 79 Phantasy Quintet -- 80 A London Symphony -- 81 A Pastoral Symphony -- 82 Flos Campi -- 83 Piano Concerto -- 84 Fourth Symphony -- 85 Five Tudor Portraits -- 86 Sixth Symphony -- 87 Folk Songs of the Four Seasons -- 88 Sinfonia Antartica -- 89 The Pilgrim's Progress -- 90 Tuba Concerto -- 91 Violin Sonata -- 92 Eighth Symphony -- 93 Ninth Symphony -- PART VI: PROGRAMME NOTES ON THE MUSIC OF OTHER COMPOSERS -- 94 Bach Cantatas -- 95 British Choral Music and Dvorák, Stabat Mater -- 96 Bach, St Matthew Passion -- 97 Dvorák, 'New World' Symphony -- 98 Elgar, Introduction and Allegro for String Orchestra -- 99 Gordon Jacob, Passacaglia on a Well-Known Theme.

100 Weber, Der Freischütz Overture -- 101 Brahms, Choruses from the Requiem -- 102 George Dyson, The Canterbury Pilgrims -- SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY OF FOLK SONG COLLECTIONS -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.