Imogen Holst published about twenty books during her lifetime, the first being a biography of her father, written a few years after his death in 1934. Most of the other books are either educational, or about Baroque composers, although she also produced a book about Britten shortly after her time working as his amanuensis.
Imogen Holst also edited collected facsimiles of her father’s works in four volumes dated 1974, 1977, 1979 and 1983. Colin Matthews was the assistant editor in 1977, and the co-editor in 1979 and 1983.
There follows a list of her published books, dates given being of first publication of course, and below these is a list of articles she wrote for Aldeburgh Festival programmes.
Published Books and Articles
| Gustav Holst – a Biography |
1938 OUP; O/OX 1390, reprinted 1958 |
| The Music of Gustav Holst |
1951 OUP |
| The Book of the Dolmetsch Descant Recorder |
1957 Boosey and Hawkes |
| The Story of Music |
1958 Rathbone |
| written with Britten and reprinted as: |
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| The Wonderful World of Music |
1968 Aldus |
| Purcell |
1959 OUP |
| Tune |
1961 Faber and Faber Ltd |
| An ABC of Music |
1963 OUP |
| Bach (Great Composer Series) |
1965 Faber and Faber |
| Britten (Great Composer Series) |
1966 Faber and Faber |
| The Music of Gustav Holst (2nd Edition) |
1968 OUP |
| Gustav Holst – A Biography (2nd Edition) |
1969 OUP |
| Holst (Short Biographies Series) |
1972 Novello |
| Byrd |
1972 Faber and Faber |
| Conducting a Choir |
1973 OUP |
| Holst (Great Composer Series) |
1974 Faber and Faber Ltd |
| A Thematic Catalogue of Gustav Holst’s Music |
1974 Faber Music Ltd |
| A Scrapbook for the Holst Birthplace Museum |
1978 Lowe and Brydone |
| Holst (Great Composer Series, 2nd Edition) |
1974 Faber and Faber Ltd |
| The Music of Gustav Holst 3rd Edition / Holst's Music Reconsidered |
1985 OUP |
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Short articles appeared in the Journals for the EFDSS during the 1930s usually under the title of ‘Music Notes’. In addition, an article entitled ‘Cecil Sharp and the music and music-making of the twentieth century’ appeared in ‘English Dance and Song’ in June 1959.
The following articles appeared in the Aldeburgh Festival Programme Books:
| 1950 |
p10 |
The Suffolk Rural Music School |
| 1951 |
p10 |
Elizabethan Music |
| 1959 |
p16 |
Folk Songs |
| 1961 |
p12 |
Music in Venice |
| 1964 |
p49 |
The music that Bach was brought up on |
| 1970 |
p11 |
Audiences |
| 1973 |
p7 |
Wind bands |
| 1976 |
p7 |
Not too educational |
| 1978 |
p8 |
Recollections of times past |
| 1980 |
p10 |
The Advantages of being Seventy |
© Christopher Tinker 2007
