I would like to bring to your attention the articles by Philip Scowcroft
stored on MusicWeb

   http://www.musicweb.uk.net/composers.html

   SOME BRITISH CONDUCTOR-COMPOSERS
   SOME BRITISH INSTRUMENTALIST COMPOSERS
   Aviation in British Music
   Railways in Music
   Waterways in Music
   Roads and Road Transport in Music
   Ships and harbours in Music
   Horse Racing and Music

   British Composers in Literature
   Music and Thomas Hardy
   Agatha Christie and Music
   Jane Austen and Music
   Rudyard Kipling and Music
   Walter Scott and Music
   Crime Fiction and Music
   Music in English Detective Fiction
   Elgar in Crime Fiction
   A.E.W.Mason
   Beatrix Potter
   William Makepeace Thakeray
   H G Wells
   Oscar Wilde
   Music and the Brontes
   The Lighter Elgar
   Joseph Holbrook Light Music
   Gastronomy and Music:
   The Cafe Orchestra in Fact and Fiction
   Sport and Music
   Men of Brass
   The Euphonium and British Music
   British Saxophone Music
   The Concertina and British Music
   Yorkshire Organist-Composers
   Music and the Forsyte Saga
   Music and the Lake District
   Music and J.B. Priestley
   Robin Hood in Music
   Wilkie Collins and Music

   English Composers for Amateurs
   No 1 - Alec Rowley
   No 2 -  Eric Thiman
   No 3 -  Thomas Dunhill
   No 4 -  Felix Swinstead
   No 5 -  E Markham Lee
   No 6 - Charles Woodhouse
   No 7 -  Adam Carse
   No 8 - Thomas Johnson
   No 9 - Alfred Scott-Gatty
   No 10 - Craig S Lang

Finally Phil's Garlands of British light music available from this page
form a veritable encyclopaedia.  These are still being added so the
indexing system is not yet complete.

Len Mullenger
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