Table of Contents

1. Place; 2. Idyll; 3. River; 4. Drift; 5. Village; 6. Hill; 7. Garden; Conclusion.

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Offers a radical and interdisciplinary analysis that will transform readers' understanding of this deeply compelling early twentieth-century composer.

About the Author

Daniel M. Grimley is Professor of Music at the University of Oxford and a fellow of Merton College. He has published extensively on early twentieth-century Scandinavian and British music, and his previous books include Grieg: Music, Landscape and Norwegian Identity (2006) and Carl Nielsen and the Idea of Modernism (2011). He appears regularly on BBC Radio 3 and at the BBC Proms as a pre-concert speaker.

Reviews

'Delius and the Sound of Place is a cutting-edge work of scholarship at the intersection of geography and music that takes seriously the insights of both critical communities and builds a genuine dialogue between them.' Robert J. Mayhew, Journal of Historical Geography

'… [Grimley] has added significantly to Delius scholarship by boldly tackling the difficult issue of where Frederick (Fritz) Delius sits in terms of his cultural identity … Handsomely produced, with copious musical examples …' Helen Faulkner, Fontes Artis Musicae

'Grimley presents his wide-ranging research in rich prose, offering seven chapters with single-word titles referencing real or imagined places … Recommended' S. C. Pelkey, Choice