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Chasing a myth and a legend: 'The British musical renaissance' in a 'Land without music'
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October 1, 2008
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To Dr Alan Marshall
TWO IMPORTANT PHRASES were created to deal with British music as the 19th century turned into the 20th. These phrases have, apart from one attempt in 1995,1 not been reconsidered for some time, although they have had a huge impact not only on our perspectives on music in 19th-century Britain (both within Britain itself and abroad) but also in the validation of British music and British consciousness.
Let us take the less heavyweight phrase first: 'English' or 'British musical renaissance'. It came to enjoy widespread use and has been employed for a long time to denote the period from c.1880 to just after the end of the First World War, and even later. But before turning ...
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