books.google.com.au - From the start of the English musical renaissance, British composers were preoccupied with Germanic principles of sonata writing, despite their subsequent exposure to influences outside this tradition - late romantic music, French impressionism, Russian nationalism, Scriabin, British folk music, African-American...http://books.google.com.au/books/about/The_British_Piano_Sonata.html?id=SIK1vk2c6A0C&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareThe British Piano Sonata