The Music of Hamish Maccunn

For many people Hamish MacCunn's name is forever associatedwith one work The Land of the Mountain and the Flood. Yet inhis short life (1868 - 1916) he wrote other equally fi ne orchestralworks cantatas two grand operas and over 100 songs. This book isthe fi rst detailed examination of his output providing a contextualbasis for and a stylistic analysis of his major works. In this way itseeks to establish informed criteria by which a truer assessment ofMacCunn's signifi cance may be made challenging the sovereigntyof The Land of the Mountain and the Flood in the public's reckoningand hence revealing it to be not an isolated peak but one summitamong many.