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An icon of British national identity and one of the most widely
performed twentieth-century composers, Ralph Vaughan Williams has
been as much misunderstood as revered; his international impact and
enduring influence on areas as diverse as church music, film scores
and popular music has been insufficiently appreciated. This volume
brings together a team of leading scholars, examining all areas of
the composer's output from new perspectives, and re-evaluating the
cultural politics of his lifelong advocacy for the music-making of
ordinary people. Surveys of major genres are complemented by
chapters exploring such topics as the composer's relationship with
the BBC and his studies with Ravel; uniquely, the book also
includes specially commissioned interviews with major living
composers Peter Maxwell Davies, Piers Hellawell, Nicola Lefanu and
Anthony Payne. The Companion is a vital resource for all those
interested in this pivotal figure of modern music.
This study, the first of its kind on a work of Vaughan Williams, traces the genesis of the composer's enigmatic final symphony as documented in the surviving manuscripts. The latter reveal an underlying programme based on Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles, and chart the composer's struggle to find the technical means by which to realize his most complex spiritual vision.
This collection of essays on Vaughan Williams brings together
leading British and American scholars and covers a wide range of
topics and approaches, exploring musical language, cultural
context, biography, manuscript sources and reception history.
Despite Vaughan Williams' seminal importance in British music,
international stature as a symphonist, and wider significance as an
icon of Englishness, very little new research on his life or music
has been published since the mid-1960s. The ten essays presented
here examine diverse subjects such as the place of Vaughan Williams
in the construction of English national identity this century, the
role of rhythm in his symphonies, music for propaganda films, and
his unpublished early orchestral pieces; major works such as the
Tallis Fantasia and the Fifth Symphony are analysed in depth.
An icon of British national identity and one of the most widely
performed twentieth-century composers, Ralph Vaughan Williams has
been as much misunderstood as revered; his international impact and
enduring influence on areas as diverse as church music, film scores
and popular music has been insufficiently appreciated. This volume
brings together a team of leading scholars, examining all areas of
the composer's output from new perspectives, and re-evaluating the
cultural politics of his lifelong advocacy for the music-making of
ordinary people. Surveys of major genres are complemented by
chapters exploring such topics as the composer's relationship with
the BBC and his studies with Ravel; uniquely, the book also
includes specially commissioned interviews with major living
composers Peter Maxwell Davies, Piers Hellawell, Nicola Lefanu and
Anthony Payne. The Companion is a vital resource for all those
interested in this pivotal figure of modern music.
This collection of essays on Vaughan Williams brings together
leading British and American scholars and covers a wide range of
topics and approaches, exploring musical language, cultural
context, biography, manuscript sources and reception history.
Despite Vaughan Williams' seminal importance in British music,
international stature as a symphonist, and wider significance as an
icon of Englishness, very little new research on his life or music
has been published since the mid-1960s. The ten essays presented
here examine diverse subjects such as the place of Vaughan Williams
in the construction of English national identity this century, the
role of rhythm in his symphonies, music for propaganda films, and
his unpublished early orchestral pieces; major works such as the
Tallis Fantasia and the Fifth Symphony are analysed in depth.
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