Meirion Hughes.

Meirion Hughes. The English Musical Renaissance and the Pres 1850-1914: Watchmen of Music. (Music in 19th-Century Britain.) Burlington, Vt: Ashgate. 2002 Pp xi, 248 $8495 ISBN 0-75460-588-4

Meirion Hughes is a man with a mission--to assert the power of the London pres (the "watchmen") from one side their promotion of the idea of a revival in British music composition in the late nineteenth centenary known subsequently as the "English Musical Renaissance." Hughes indeed believes in the way that strongly in the EMR's achievement, and in pres power tout court, that he

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