Vaughan Williams And His World
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Vaughan Williams And His World
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Author : Byron Adams
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2023-08-05
Vaughan Williams And His World written by Byron Adams and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-08-05 with Music categories.
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.
The Cambridge Companion To Vaughan Williams
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Author : Alain Frogley
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2013-11-14
The Cambridge Companion To Vaughan Williams written by Alain Frogley and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-14 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A comprehensive reassessment of this towering figure of twentieth-century music, examining works, cultural context and reception in Britain and beyond.
Vaughan Williams And The Vision Of Albion
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Author : Wilfrid Mellers
language : en
Publisher: Century
Release Date : 1989
Vaughan Williams And The Vision Of Albion written by Wilfrid Mellers and has been published by Century this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
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.
Vaughan Williams
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Author : Keith Alldritt
language : en
Publisher: Robert Hale Ltd
Release Date : 2017-05-31
Vaughan Williams written by Keith Alldritt and has been published by Robert Hale Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-31 with Music categories.
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.
The Choral Orchestral Works Of Ralph Vaughan Williams
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Author : Stephen Town
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2019-12-06
The Choral Orchestral Works Of Ralph Vaughan Williams written by Stephen Town and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-12-06 with Music categories.
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).
The Edge Of Beyond
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Author : Stephen Connock
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-04
The Edge Of Beyond written by Stephen Connock and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-04 with categories.
Ralph Vaughan Williams And Adrian Boult
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Author : Nigel Simeone
language : en
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Release Date : 2022-10-04
Ralph Vaughan Williams And Adrian Boult written by Nigel Simeone and has been published by Boydell & Brewer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-10-04 with categories.
The first detailed study of the working relationship and productive friendship between Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) and Adrian Boult (1889-1983).
The Captain S Apprentice
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Author : Caroline Davison
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2022-08-25
The Captain S Apprentice written by Caroline Davison and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-08-25 with Music categories.
A beautifully written exploration of the world of Edwardian folk music, and its influence on the composer Ralph Vaughan Williams In January 1905 the young Vaughan Williams, not yet one of England's most famous composers, visited Norfolk to find folk songs 'from the mouths of the singers'. An old fisherman, James 'Duggie' Carter, performed 'The Captain's Apprentice', a brutal tale of torture sung to the most beautiful tune the young composer had ever heard. With this transformational moment at its heart, the book traces the contrasting lives of the well-to-do composer and a forgotten cabin boy who died at sea, and brings fresh perspectives on folk-song collectors, the singers and their songs. ***AS READ ON BBC RADIO 4*** 'A quirky, fascinating read. Davison excels in evoking English landscapes' Sunday Times 'Animated, entertaining... Presenting a richly complex picture of a subject that can all too easily be shrouded in a sentimental haze' Daily Telegraph
The Music Of Ralph Vaughan Williams
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Author : Frank Howes
language : en
Publisher: Andesite Press
Release Date : 2017-08-24
The Music Of Ralph Vaughan Williams written by Frank Howes and has been published by Andesite Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-08-24 with History categories.
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Letters Of Ralph Vaughan Williams 1895 1958
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Author : Ralph Vaughan Williams
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2008-08-07
Letters Of Ralph Vaughan Williams 1895 1958 written by Ralph Vaughan Williams and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-08-07 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
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: forexample 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 Sharp who provided texts; with his publishers (mainly OUP) aboutprinting 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, andlatterly 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.In general the book paints a self-portrait of Vaughan Williams not only as a great composer but as a large-minded and public-spirited personality who towered over the British musical world for forty years.