Vaughan Williams and His World
University of Chicago Press (Verlag)
978-0-226-83044-5 (ISBN)
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.
Byron Adams is emeritus professor of musicology at the University of California, Riverside. He is an associate editor of the Musical Quarterly and editor of the volume Vaughan Williams Essays as well as the volume Edward Elgar and His World for the Bard Music Festival series, for which he also serves as a consultant. Daniel M. Grimley is professor of music and head of humanities at the University of Oxford and a professorial fellow at Merton College. His books include Grieg: Music, Landscape, and Norwegian Identity, Carl Nielsen and the Idea of Modernism, Delius and the Sound of Place, and Jean Sibelius: Life, Music, Silence.
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Acknowledgments
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 the 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
Index
Notes on the Contributors
| Erscheinungsdatum | 20.07.2023 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | The Bard Music Festival |
| Zusatzinfo | 20 halftones, 17 line drawings, 3 tables |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 235 mm |
| Gewicht | 540 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Klassik / Oper / Musical |
| ISBN-10 | 0-226-83044-6 / 0226830446 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-226-83044-5 / 9780226830445 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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