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Liberal critics and modern music in the post-Victorian age / Matthew Riley -- 'A thoroughgoing modern' : Elgar reception in the Manchester Guardian, 1896-1908 / Meirion Hughes -- Schoenberg, Roger Fry and the emergence of a critical language for the reception of musical modernism in Britain, 1912-1914 / Deborah Heckert -- Modernism, Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes in London, 1911-1929 / Gareth Thomas -- Modern maritime pastoral : wave deformations in the music of Frank Bridge / Stephen Downes -- 'A direct and intimate realization' : Holst and formalism in the 1920s / Christopher M. Scheer -- Façades for Façade : William Walton, visual culture and English modernism in the Sitwell circle / Tim Barringer -- Landscape and distance : Vaughan Williams, modernism and the symphonic pastoral / Daniel M. Grimley -- Vaughan Williams's antic symphony / J.P.E. Harper-Scott -- Hindemith's disciple in London : Walter Leigh on modern music, 1932-40 / Thomas Irvine -- Benjamin Britten's 'Pierrot' ensembles / Christopher Dromey -- Music for the machines of the future : H.G. Wells, Arthur Bliss and Things to come (1936) / Matthew Riley -- Early music and the ambivalent origins of Elisabeth Lutyens's modernism / Laurel Parsons -- 'The real thing--at last?' Historicizing Humphrey Searle / Ben Earle