| Series |
The Bard Music Festival
Bard Music Festival series. ^A368770
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| Contents |
Ralph Vaughan Williams: man and music: an introduction / Byron Adams and Daniel M. Grimley -- Vaughan Williams and Cambridge / Julian Rushton -- Vaughan Williams and the Royal College of Music / Erica Siegel -- Vaughan Williams's "The letter and the spirit" (1920) / introduced and annotated by Ceri Owen -- Modernist image in Vaughan Williams's Job / Philip Rupprecht -- "Finest of fine arts": Vaughan Williams and film / Annika Forkert -- Pilgrim in a new-found-land: Vaughan Williams in America / Byron Adams -- Vaughan Williams's lecture on the St. Matthew passion (1938) / introduced and annotated by Eric Saylor -- Vaughan Williams's common ground / Sarah Collins and Daniel M. Grimley -- Tracing a biography: Michael Kennedy's correspondence concerning The works of Ralph Vaughan Williams / introduced and annotated by Daniel M. Grimley and Byron Adams -- "His own idiom": Vaughan Williams's Violin sonata and the development of his melodic style / O. W. Neighbour -- Critical reception: early performances of the Symphony no. 9 in E minor / introduced and annotated by Alain Frogley -- Goodness and beauty: philosophy, history, and Ralph Vaughan Williams / Leon Botstein. |
| Abstract |
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. This book 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN | 9780226830445 (cloth) |
| ISBN | 0226830446 (cloth) |
| ISBN | 9780226830452 (paperback) |
| ISBN | 0226830454 (paperback) |
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