Editing Arnold Bax (section)

===Other orchestral works===
[[File:Bax-In-the-Faery-Hills.jpg|thumb|alt=bars of a printed orchestral score|upright=2|''[[In the Faëry Hills]]'', 1910 symphonic poem]]
Bax's tone poems are in a variety of styles and have varied sharply in their popularity. His  impressionistic tone poem ''In the Faëry Hills'' is described by ''Grove'' as "a succinct and attractive piece". It was modestly successful, but ''Spring Fire'' (1913) is instanced by Foreman as a difficult work; it was not performed in Bax's lifetime.<ref name=grove/> During the First World War Bax wrote three tone poems, two of which – ''[[The Garden of Fand]]'' (1913–16) and ''[[November Woods]]'' (1917) – have remained on the fringes of the modern repertoire, and a third – ''[[Tintagel (Bax)|Tintagel]]'' (1917–19) – which in the decade after his death was the only work by which Bax was known to the public.<ref name=grove/> ''Grove'' characterises all three as musical evocations of nature, with little expression of subjective personal response. The orchestral piece that was neglected longest was ''In memoriam'' (1917), a lament for [[Patrick Pearse]], who was shot for his part in the Easter rising; the work was not played until 1998. Bax reused the main melody for his incidental music to ''[[Oliver Twist (1948 film)|Oliver Twist]]'' (1948).<ref>Foreman, Lewis (1999). Notes to Chandos CD 9715, OCLC 41148812</ref>

''Oliver Twist'' was the second of Bax's film scores. The first was for a short wartime propaganda film, ''Malta, G. C.''. A four-movement suite was published after the release of the latter,<ref>Foreman, Lewis (2003). Notes to Chandos CD 10126, OCLC 872996638</ref>  containing what ''[[The Penguin Guide to Recorded Classical Music]]'' calls "a notable March with a genuine ''nobilmente'' theme in the best Elgarian tradition".<ref>March, p. 80</ref> Bax's third and last cinema score was for a ten-minute short film ''Journey into History'' in 1952.<ref>Brooke, Michael. [http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/id/705508/index.html "Journey into History"], British Film Institute, retrieved 17 September 2015</ref>

Other orchestral works include ''Overture, Elegy and Rondo'' (1927) – a lightweight piece, according to ''Grove''. The ''[[Overture to a Picaresque Comedy]]'' (1930), was for a time one of his most popular works.<ref name=chandos/> It was described by the composer as "Straussian pastiche" and by ''The Times'' as "gay and impudent, and with that tendency to vulgarity which so easily besets the instinctively refined composer determined to let himself go",<ref>"Royal Philharmonic Society", ''The Times'', 2 April 1937, p. 10</ref> Cardus thought the work so appealing that to live up to the overture the putative comedy would have to be "written by [[Hugo von Hofmannsthal|Hofmannsthal]] and [[George Bernard Shaw|Shaw]] in collaboration. Not often is English music so free and audacious as this, so gay and winning."<ref name=nc>Cardus, Neville. "The Halle Concert", ''The Manchester Guardian'', 20 November 1931, p, 11</ref>