Almost fifty years since his passing, the music of Ralph Vaughan
Williams continues to captivate audiences around the world, evoking
the sound and spirit of folksong, and the image of rural landscape.
In Vaughan Williams on Music, we read the composer in his own
words, as he pursues two related ambitions: to create his own
musical language, and to make early twentieth-century England a
musical nation. Music lovers, students, and researchers alike will
find in this volume a substantial collection of the composer's
writings which either went unpublished or have been unavailable
since their initial publication. The book contains 102 items
written by the composer between 1897 and the year of his death,
1958, including articles for musical magazines, transcripts of
broadcasts, obituary notices, and program notes. This wide-ranging
material illuminates Vaughan Williams's work as a composer, and
highlights his numerous other roles as an active supporter of
amateur music-makers, a leader in the folksong revival, educator,
performer, campaigner for English music, and polemicist. By
addressing a variety of topics, Vaughan Williams reveals the
complex and volatile political, musical, and cultural contexts in
which he worked over a period of six decades. In these
circumstances, Vaughan Williams demonstrates the breadth of his
knowledge and the depth of his understanding, and his commitment to
communicating with a wide audience. His writings are purposely
accessible to reach this audience, permeated with central themes of
originality, folksong, a sense of history, and the importance of
self-expression. Moreover, the collection reveals the emergence of
Vaughan Williams's aesthetics of music during the early 1900s, as
he came to terms with the legacy of Brahms and Wagner in order to
develop his personal musical idiom. Vaughan Williams on Music is a
significant resource for scholars of both British music and the
history of British culture, as well as an enjoyable read for all
who love Vaughan Williams's music.
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