Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-244) and index.

Elgar and his British contemporaries / Jeremy Dibble -- Elgar and his publishers / Robert Anderson -- Magic by mosaic : some aspects of Elgar's compositional methods / Christopher Kent -- Elgar's musical language : the shorter instrumental works / Diana McVeagh -- The early choral works / Robin Holloway -- Elgar's later oratorios : Roman Catholicism, decadence and the Wagnerian dialectic of shame and grace / Byron Adams -- Roman Catholicism and being musically English : Elgar's church and organ music / John Butt -- 'A smiling with a sigh' : the chamber music and works for strings / Daniel M. Grimley -- In search of the symphony : orchestral music to 1908 / Julian Rushton -- The later orchestral music (1910-34) / Christopher Mark -- Elgar's unwumbling : the theatre music / J.P.E. Harper-Scott -- Elgar and recording / Timothy Day -- Broadcasting's ally : Elgar and the BBC / Jenny Doctor -- Elgar in German criticism / Aidan J. Thomson -- Functional music : imperialism, the Great War, and Elgar as popular composer / Charles Edward McGuire.