Author:
Tarling, Nicholas.
ImprintLanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2014]
Descriptionxv, 215 pages ; 23 cm
Note:Monteverdi's Vespers -- Bach's St. Matthew Passion -- Bach's Mass in B minor -- Handel's Messiah -- Mozart's Requiem -- Haydn's The creation -- Beethoven's Missa solemnis -- Schumann's Paradise and the peri -- Mendelssohn's Elijah -- Belioz's The damnation of Faust -- Berlioz's The childhood of Christ -- Rossini's Little solemn Mass -- Brahms's A German requiem -- Paine's St. Peter -- Liszt's Christus -- Verdi's Requiem -- Parry's Prometheus unbound -- Coleridge-Taylor's Hiawatha -- Elgar's The dream of Gerontius -- Elgar's trilogy -- Delius's A Mass of life -- Vaughan Williams's A sea symphony -- Janacek's Glagolithic Mass -- Hindemith's When lilacs last -- Tippett's A child of our time -- Britten's War requiem -- Messiaen's The Transfiguartion of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
