Opera

Gustav Holst (1874–1934)

1061. Short, Michael. Gustav Holst: The Man and His Music. New York: Oxford
      U.P., 1990. xiv, 530p. ISBN 0-19-314154-X. ML410 .H748 S6.
      A useful life and works, well documented, with a worklist and a strong bibli-
      ography of some 500 entries. Technical analysis is treated topically (harmony,
      rhythm, form, etc.) in separate chapters, with considerations of various works
      in them. The operas are accounted for in this manner, rather than through
      individual accounts of each. Index.

Arthur Honegger (1892–1955)

1062. Halbreich, Harry. Arthur Honegger. Trans. Roger Nichols. Portland, Ore.:
      Amadeus, 1999. 677p. ISBN 1-57467-041-7. ML410 .H79 H313.
      Originally Arthur Honegger: Un musicien dans la cité des hommes(Paris:
      Fayard, 1992). A documented life and works, with extended program notes on
      Judith, Antigone,and L’aiglon (composed with Ibert).Backnotes, worklist,
      quick bibliography, name index.


1063. Spratt, Geoffrey K. The Music of Arthur Honegger.Cork, Ireland: Cork U.P.,


1064. xix, 651p. ISBN 0-9025-6134-0. ML410 .H79 S67.
      Primarily a technical analysis of the nine dramatic works, with genesis and
      reception studies. The works are diagrammed and examined on macro and
      micro levels, with musical examples in full score. Spratt finds the “organic
      strength of the music” to result from the handling of motifs, not from tonal
      structure (which Honegger considered outmoded). Worklist, bibliography of
      about 400 items, index.

Engelbert Humperdinck (1854–1921)

Hänsel und Gretelis in ASO104 (1987).

1064.Engelbert Humperdinck zum 70. Todestag. Ed. Eva Humperdinck and Jost

Nickell. Siegburg: Franz Schmitt, 1992. 279p. ISBN 3-87710-153-4. ML410

.H9 A4.

A useful treatment of Königskindertakes up most of this book. Detailed gene-

sis, with the composer’s correspondence of 1894–1908. Facsimiles of pro-

grams and letters, footnotes, worklist.

Jacques Ibert (1890–1962)

1065. Failoni, Judith Weaver. “Tradition and Innovation in Jacques Ibert’s Opera,
      Persée et Andromède.” Ph.D. diss., Washington U., 1995. 505p.

See also Halbreich (#1062).

Vincent D’Indy (1851–1931)

1066. Vallas, Léon. Vincent D’Indy.Paris: Michel, 1946–1950. 2v. ML410 .I7 V3.
      A life and works, with genesis, reception, and technical notes on Le chant de la
      cloche, Fervaal, and L’étranger. The style, Wagnerian all the way, is analyzed
      in those terms. Musical examples, worklist and index, no bibliography.

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