Vaughan Williams Essays

Author : Robin Wells
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 53,9 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 : Ralph Vaughan Williams
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : STANFORD:36105042509781

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National Music and Other Essays by Ralph Vaughan Williams Pdf

Written by one of the greatest of English composers, this revised edition of Ralph Vaughan Williams's essays features a new introduction by Michael Kennedy plus several new essays.

Author : Alain Frogley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1996-12-12
Category : Music
ISBN : 0521480310

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Vaughan Williams Studies by Alain Frogley Pdf

A collection of essays on Vaughan Williams explores his musical language, cultural context and biography.

Author : Byron Adams,Daniel M. Grimley
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 54,6 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 : Ryan Ross
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-17
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781317646150

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Ralph Vaughan Williams by Ryan Ross Pdf

Ralph Vaughan Williams: A Research and Information Guide presents the most extensive annotated bibliography of its subject yet produced. It offers comprehensive coverage of the English composer's prose works and accounts for over 1,000 secondary sources from all critical and scholarly eras. A single-numbering format and substantial indexes facilitate efficient searches of what is the most complete bibliography of Ralph Vaughan Williams since Neil Butterworth's guide to research was published by Garland in 1990.

Author : Ryan Ross
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-17
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781317646167

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Ralph Vaughan Williams by Ryan Ross Pdf

Ralph Vaughan Williams: A Research and Information Guide presents the most extensive annotated bibliography of its subject yet produced. It offers comprehensive coverage of the English composer's prose works and accounts for over 1,000 secondary sources from all critical and scholarly eras. A single-numbering format and substantial indexes facilitate efficient searches of what is the most complete bibliography of Ralph Vaughan Williams since Neil Butterworth's guide to research was published by Garland in 1990.

Author : Keith Alldritt
Publisher : Robert Hale Ltd
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 55,5 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 : Byron Adams,Daniel M. Grimley
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2023-08-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780226830452

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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 Town
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 42,7 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 : Alain Frogley,Aidan J. Thomson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 50,5 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 : Ralph Vaughan Williams
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780195182392

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Vaughan Williams on Music by Ralph Vaughan Williams Pdf

The composer explains in his own words his pursuit of two related ambitions: to create his own musical language, and to make early 20th-century England a musical nation. The book contains 102 items written between 1897 and 1958, including articles for musical magazines, transcripts of broadcasts, obituaries and programme notes.

Author : Ralph Vaughan Williams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1934
Category : Folk songs
ISBN : UCSD:31822006043491

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National Music by Ralph Vaughan Williams Pdf

Author : Simon Heffer
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1555534724

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Vaughan Williams by Simon Heffer Pdf

A concise biography of the first truly English composer of the twentieth century.

Author : Hugh Cobbe
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2010-09-09
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780191615269

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

The book comprises a selection of some 750 letters of the composer, Ralph Vaughan Williams, selected from an extant corpus of about 3,300. The letters are arranged chronologically and have been chosen to provide a cumulative pen-picture of the composer in his own words. In general the letters reflect VW's major preoccupations: musical, personal and political. It was not VW's way to discuss his inner creative processes but he does discuss his music, once it had been written: for example there is much to illustrate the process of 'washing the face' of his major pieces before, and after, they had reached the concert platform. There is correspondence with collaborators such as Gilbert Murray, Harold Child and Evelyn Sharpe who provided texts; with his publishers (mainly OUP) about printing scores and parts; with conductors such as Adrian Boult and John Barbirolli about performances. He was in regular correspondence with fellow composers such as Gustav Holst, George Butterworth, Gerald Finzi, Herbert Howells, John Ireland, Alan Bush and Rutland Boughton. There were his pupils: Elizabeth Maconchy and Cedric Thorpe Davie amongst others. A series of close personal friendships is well represented: his Cambridge contemporary and cousin Ralph Wedgwood, Edward Dent, and latterly Michael Kennedy. Above all there are insights on his lifelong devotion to his first wife, Adeline, and his growing friendship with Ursula Wood, who was to become his second wife.

Author : Stephen H. Smith
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2022-01-12
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781800466968

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Albion’s Glory by Stephen H. Smith Pdf

My book begins with a brief consideration of what we mean by “English music” and what factors are involved. I explain the reasons behind my choice of composers for consideration, and for the omissions from the survey.