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Vaughan Williams and His World
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Vaughan Williams and His World
About this book
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.
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.
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Classical MusicTable of contents
- Cover
- Copyright
- Title Page
- Series Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Permissions and Credits
- Acknowledgments
- Ralph Vaughan Williams: Man and Music. An Introduction
- Vaughan Williams and Cambridge
- Vaughan Williams and the Royal College of Music
- Vaughan Williams’s “The Letter and the Spirit” (1920)
- Modernist Image in Vaughan Williams’s Job
- “Finest of the Fine Arts”: Vaughan Williams and Film
- Pilgrim in a New-Found-Land: Vaughan Williams in America
- Vaughan Williams’s Lecture on the St. Matthew Passion (1938)
- Vaughan Williams’s Common Ground
- Tracing a Biography: Michael Kennedy’s Correspondence Concerning The Works of Ralph Vaughan Williams
- “His own idiom”: Vaughan Williams’s Violin Sonata and the Development of His Melodic Style
- Critical Reception: Early Performances of the Symphony No. 9 in E Minor
- Goodness and Beauty: Philosophy, History, and Ralph Vaughan Williams
- Notes
- Index
- Notes on the Contributors
- Series List