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Authors: Alain Frogley
ISBN-13: 9780521088640, ISBN-10: 052108864X
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: October 2008
Edition: (Non-applicable)
A collection of essays on Vaughan Williams explores his musical language, cultural context and biography.
List of plates | ||
Bibliographic abbreviations and score references | ||
Preface | ||
1 | Constructing Englishness in music: national character and the reception of Ralph Vaughan Williams | 1 |
2 | Coming of age: the earliest orchestral music of Ralph Vaughan Williams | 23 |
3 | Vaughan Williams, Tallis, and the Phantasy principle | 47 |
4 | Vaughan Williams, Germany, and the German tradition: a view from the letters | 81 |
5 | Scripture, Church, and culture: biblical texts in the works of Ralph Vaughan Williams | 99 |
6 | Vaughan Williams's folksong transcriptions: a case of idealization? | 118 |
7 | Vaughan Williams and British wartime cinema | 139 |
8 | Rhythm in the symphonies: a preliminary investigation | 166 |
9 | 'Symphony in D major': models and mutations | 187 |
10 | The place of the Eighth among Vaughan Williams's symphonies | 213 |
Index of Vaughan Williams's works cited | 234 | |
Index of Names | 237 |