The Lark Ascending - The Music of the British Landscape (Hardcover)

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The Lark Ascending, Ralph Vaughan Williams' 'pastoral romance for orchestra' was premiered on 14 June, 1921. Over the course of the twentieth century this piece of music, perhaps more than any other, worked its way into the collective consciousness to seemingly define a mythical concept of the English countryside: babbling brooks, skylarks, hayricks. But the birth and legacy of the composition are much more complex than this simplified pastoral vision suggests. The landscape we celebrate as unsullied and ripe with mystique is a living, working, and occasionally rancorous environment - not an unaffected idyll - that forged a nation's musical personality, and its dissenting traditions.

On a chronological journey that takes him from postwar poets and artists to the late twentieth century and the free party scene which emerged from acid house and travelling communities, Richard King explores how Britain's history and identity has been shaped by the mysterious relationship between music and nature. From the far west of Wales to the Thames Estuary and the Suffolk shoreline, taking in Brian Eno, Kate Bush, Boards of Canada, Dylan Thomas, Gavin Bryars, Greenham Common and The Kinder Scout Mass Trespass, The Lark Ascending listens to the land and the music that emerged from it, to chart a new and surprising course through a familiar landscape.

General

Imprint:	Faber and Faber
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	June 2019
Authors:	Richard King (Events organiser)
Dimensions:	204 x 153 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	368
ISBN-13:	978-0-571-33879-5
Categories:	Books > Sport & Leisure > Natural history, country life & pets > General Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Western music, periods & styles > 20th century music Books > Arts & Architecture > Art forms, treatments & subjects > Art treatments & subjects > Iconography, subjects depicted in art > Nature in art, still life, landscapes & seascapes > General Books > Music > Western music, periods & styles > 20th century music
LSN:	0-571-33879-8
Barcode:	9780571338795

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