Vaughan Williams And His World

Author : Byron Adams,Daniel M. Grimley
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2023-08-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780226830469

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Vaughan Williams and His World by Byron Adams,Daniel M. Grimley Pdf

A biography of Ralph Vaughan Williams, published in collaboration with the Bard Music Festival. Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872–1958) was one of the most innovative and creative figures in twentieth-century music, whose symphonies stand alongside those of Sibelius, Nielsen, Shostakovich, and Roussel. After his death, shifting priorities in the music world led to a period of critical neglect. What could not have been foreseen is that by the second decade of the twenty-first century, a handful of Vaughan Williams’s scores would attain immense popularity worldwide. Yet the present renown of these pieces has led to misapprehension about the nature of Vaughan Williams’s cultural nationalism and a distorted view of his international cultural and musical significance. Vaughan Williams and His World traces the composer’s stylistic and aesthetic development in a broadly chronological fashion, reappraising Vaughan Williams’s music composed during and after the Second World War and affirming his status as an artist whose leftist political convictions pervaded his life and music. This volume reclaims Vaughan Williams’s deeply held progressive ethical and democratic convictions while celebrating his achievements as a composer.

Author : Stephen Connock
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0995628459

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The Edge of Beyond by Stephen Connock Pdf

Author : Michael Kennedy
Publisher : London, Oxford U. P
Page : 818 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Composers
ISBN : UCAL:B3516801

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The Works of Ralph Vaughan Williams by Michael Kennedy Pdf

"For this comprehensive account of Vaughan Williams's musical career, the author has had unrestricted access to the composer's private papers. This book includes many letters which illuminate Vaughan Williams's intentions and contains quotations from his writings and from contemporary reactions to his music over nearly sixty years. Besides the straightforward narrative of a full and busy life of music, there is a critical commentary on the works themselves. Special importance is attached to the authoritative catalogue of works which forms the first appendix. All known published and unpublished works are listed here, with full details of instrumentation, revisions, and first performances. Particular attention has been given to accuracy of dates. All the composer's own programme notes are reprinted. For the first time it is possible to have a full picture of Vaughan Williams's creative activities before 1905 as well as of his career after he became firmly established." --Book jacket.

Author : Alain Frogley,Aidan J. Thomson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780521197687

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The Cambridge Companion to Vaughan Williams by Alain Frogley,Aidan J. Thomson Pdf

A comprehensive reassessment of this towering figure of twentieth-century music, examining works, cultural context and reception in Britain and beyond.

Author : Keith Alldritt
Publisher : Robert Hale Ltd
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2017-05-31
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780719824418

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Vaughan Williams by Keith Alldritt Pdf

The ground-breaking biography of Ralph Vaughan Williams reveals more than any other the man behind the music. The author examines the considerable range of Vaughan Williams's work, from the English pastoral tradition to Modernism, and shows how Vaughan Williams was influenced by the Boer War, the economic depression after the First World War, the deprivations of the Blitz, and the austerity of the Cold War. He also reveals how the greatest influence on Vaughan Williams's music and creative development was his personal life, involving his seemingly secure marriage and an equally enduring love affair. The author shows how these reflected both the stability and cutting-edge aspects of his music. Like a great symphony, this book ranges from doubt to inspiration. It is the most complete biography of one of Britain's greatest composers and will be of interest to historians, students of music and Vaughan Williams enthusiasts.

Author : Wilfrid Mellers
Publisher : Century
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : IND:39000005007096

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Vaughan Williams and the Vision of Albion by Wilfrid Mellers Pdf

This biography of Ralph Vaughan Williams, a figure in the renaissance of English music, begins by describing his background, his early music and general education, and the musical context in which he grew up. A number of revealing conflicts emerge - between conformity and rebellion, the pastoral and the cosmopolitan, for example - and the author explores the inspiration Vaughan Williams derived both from the New World and from Old England. Throughout the book, the major works are described and analyzed.

Author : Ralph Vaughan Williams
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 700 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2008-08-07
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780199257973

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Letters of Ralph Vaughan Williams, 1895-1958 by Ralph Vaughan Williams Pdf

The reader will gain a deeper understanding of the man and thus a deeper understanding of the music, at a time when it is being performed increasingly often."--Jacket.

Author : Percy Dearmer. B. Vaughan Williams, Martin Shaw
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1950
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Oxford Book of Carols by Percy Dearmer. B. Vaughan Williams, Martin Shaw Pdf

Author : Robin Wells
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351537797

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Vaughan Williams Essays by Robin Wells Pdf

Serious scholarship on the music of Ralph Vaughan Williams is currently enjoying a lively revival after a period of relative quiescence, and is only beginning to address the enduring affection of concert audiences for his music. The essays that comprise this volume extend the study of Vaughan Williams's music in new directions that will be of interest to scholars, performers and listeners alike. This volume contains the work of eleven North American scholars who have been recipients of the Ralph Vaughan Williams Fellowship based at the composer's own school, Charterhouse, which was created and has been supported by the Carthusian Trust since 1985. This wide-ranging and detailed collection of essays covers the spectrum of genres in which Vaughan Williams wrote, including dance, symphony, opera, song, hymnody and film music. The contributors also employ a range of analytical and historical methods of investigation to illuminate aspects of Vaughan Williams's compositional techniques and influences, musical, literary and visual.

Author : Stephen Town
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-06
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781793606013

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The Choral-Orchestral Works of Ralph Vaughan Williams by Stephen Town Pdf

The Choral-Orchestral Works of Ralph Vaughan Williams: Autographs, Context, Discourse combines contextual knowledge, a musical commentary, an inventory of the holograph manuscripts, and a critical assessment of the opus to create substantial and meticulous examinations of Ralph Vaughan Williams’s choral-orchestral works. The contents include an equitable choice of pieces from the various stages in the life of the composer and an analysis of pieces from the various stages of Williams’s life. The earliest are taken from the pre-World War I years, when Vaughan Williams was constructing his identity as an academic and musician—Vexilla Regis (1894), Mass (1899), and A Sea Symphony (1910). The middle group are chosen from the interwar period—Sancta Civitas (1925), Benedicite (1929), Magnificat (1932), Five Tudor Portraits (1935), Dona nobis pacem (1936)—written after Vaughan Williams had found his mature voice. The last cluster—Thanksgiving for Victory (1944), Fantasia (Quasi Variazione) on the ‘Old 104’ Psalm Tune (1949), Sons of Light (1950), Hodie (1954), The Bridal Day/Epithalamion (1938/1957)—typify the works finished or revisited during the final years of the composer’s life, near the end of the Second World War and immediately before or after his second marriage (1953).

Author : Ralph Vaughan Williams
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2009-04-02
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780141932880

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English Folk Songs by Ralph Vaughan Williams Pdf

This collection is filled with songs that tell of the pleasures and pains of love, the patterns of the countryside and the lives of ordinary people. Here are unfaithful soldiers, ghostly lovers, whalers on stormy seas, cuckolds and tricksters. By turns funny, plain-speaking and melancholic, these songs evoke a lost world and, with their melodies provided, record a vital musical tradition. Generations of inhabitants have helped shape the English countryside - but it has profoundly shaped us too.It has provoked a huge variety of responses from artists, writers, musicians and people who live and work on the land - as well as those who are travelling through it.English Journeys celebrates this long tradition with a series of twenty books on all aspects of the countryside, from stargazey pie and country churches, to man's relationship with nature and songs celebrating the patterns of the countryside (as well as ghosts and love-struck soldiers).

Author : Stephen Connock
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Composers
ISBN : 0995628432

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Toward the Sun Rising by Stephen Connock Pdf

It might surprise many members of the RVW Society that a book of recollections about Vaughan Williams should emerge sixty years after the composer’s death. Its author, Stephen Connock began collecting detailed memories in 1996, working in close collaboration with the composer’s second wife, Ursula Vaughan Williams who gave him introductions to people such as: Simona Pakenham, Michael Kennedy, Roy Douglas, Sir David Willcocks, Ruth Gipps, Jill Balcon and Robert Armstrong. The interviews involved those who knew him as relatives, friends or musical colleagues during his long life. There were even then, a great many people around in the mid-1990s who still remembered him. Stephen began to tape-record the recollections of these individuals and then, with the welcome help of John Whittaker, a member of the RVW Society, began to film contributors. Most of this work was undertaken between 1996 and 2003 and, in total, there are now 67 individual recollections. These are what Stephen calls ‘Primary Memories’ – recollections directly commissioned for his book – and 46 have been transcribed in full ... --https://albionmusic.com/toward-the-sun-rising/

Author : Ralph Vaughan Williams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1955
Category : Music
ISBN : UCAL:B3247601

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The Making of Music by Ralph Vaughan Williams Pdf

This monograph is based on four lectures which the venerable and distinguished British composer delivered at Cornell University. He explains the nature of rhythm, the relation of folk music to the composer, why we make music, the social foundations of music, and more.

Author : Frank Howes
Publisher : Andesite Press
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2017-08-24
Category : History
ISBN : 1376183730

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The Music of Ralph Vaughan Williams by Frank Howes Pdf

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Author : Ursula Vaughan Williams,Roger Buckley,Joyce Kennedy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Composers' spouses
ISBN : STANFORD:36105025774055

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Paradise Remembered by Ursula Vaughan Williams,Roger Buckley,Joyce Kennedy Pdf