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Eric Saylor's English Pastoral Music is a brilliant new mapping of a repertory much admired but often misunderstood. Juxtaposing visions of Arcadian landscapes with the existential realities of war, Saylor reframes early-20th century pastoral--idyllic and elegiac--as a modernist art form. Rich in biographical, social, and ideological perspectives, this study is both superbly researched and deeply felt. --Philip Rupprecht, author of British Musical Modernism: The Manchester Group and their Contemporaries In this landmark study, Eric Saylor sensitively illuminates the contexts and meanings (including many dark currents) of a body of twentieth-century music that remains exceptionally popular with audiences, and yet is still frequently misunderstood and underestimated by critics and musicologists. --Alain Frogley, author of Vaughan Williams's Ninth Symphony Eric Saylor's book, English Pastoral Music: From Arcadia to Utopia, 1900-1950 is even more fascinating than an interview can convey; it's a book very much worth reading for yourself. --Iowa Public Radio

Eric Saylor's <i>English Pastoral Music</i> is a brilliant new mapping of a repertory much admired but often misunderstood. Juxtaposing visions of Arcadian landscapes with the existential realities of war, Saylor reframes early-20th century pastoral--idyllic and elegiac--as a modernist art form. Rich in biographical, social, and ideological perspectives, this study is both superbly researched and deeply felt. --Philip Rupprecht, author of <i>British Musical Modernism: The Manchester Group and their Contemporaries</i>

In this landmark study, Eric Saylor sensitively illuminates the contexts and meanings (including many dark currents) of a body of twentieth-century music that remains exceptionally popular with audiences, and yet is still frequently misunderstood and underestimated by critics and musicologists. --Alain Frogley, author of Vaughan Williams's Ninth Symphony Eric Saylor's English Pastoral Music is a brilliant new mapping of a repertory much admired but often misunderstood. Juxtaposing visions of Arcadian landscapes with the existential realities of war, Saylor reframes early-20th century pastoral--idyllic and elegiac--as a modernist art form. Rich in biographical, social, and ideological perspectives, this study is both superbly researched and deeply felt. --Philip Rupprecht, author of British Musical Modernism: The Manchester Group and their Contemporaries

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Eric Saylor is a professor of musicology at Drake University. He coedited Blackness in Opera and The Sea in the British Musical Imagination.

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