Vaughan Williams on Music
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-518239-2 (ISBN)
Almost fifty years since his passing, the music of Ralph Vaughan Williams continues to captivate audiences around the world, evoking the sound and spirit of folksong, and the image of rural landscape. In Vaughan Williams on Music, we read the composer in his own words, as he pursues two related ambitions: to create his own musical language, and to make early twentieth-century England a musical nation.
Music lovers, students, and researchers alike will find in this volume a substantial collection of the composer's writings which either went unpublished or have been unavailable since their initial publication. The book contains 102 items written by the composer between 1897 and the year of his death, 1958, including articles for musical magazines, transcripts of broadcasts, obituary notices, and program notes. This wide-ranging material illuminates Vaughan Williams's work as a composer, and highlights his numerous other roles as an active supporter of amateur music-makers, a leader in the folksong revival, educator, performer, campaigner for English music, and polemicist.
By addressing a variety of topics, Vaughan Williams reveals the complex and volatile political, musical, and cultural contexts in which he worked over a period of six decades. In these circumstances, Vaughan Williams demonstrates the breadth of his knowledge and the depth of his understanding, and his commitment to communicating with a wide audience. His writings are purposely accessible to reach this audience, permeated with central themes of originality, folksong, a sense of history, and the importance of self-expression. Moreover, the collection reveals the emergence of Vaughan Williams's aesthetics of music during the early 1900s, as he came to terms with the legacy of Brahms and Wagner in order to develop his personal musical idiom.
Vaughan Williams on Music is a significant resource for scholars of both British music and the history of British culture, as well as an enjoyable read for all who love Vaughan Williams's music.
David Manning is a Teaching Fellow in Music at the University of Bristol.
Section 1: Musical Life and English Music
1: The Romantic Movement and its Results
2: A School of English Music
3: The Soporific Finale
4: Good Taste
5: A Sermon to Vocalists
6: Preface to The English Hymnal
7: Who Wants the English Composer?
8: British Music
9: Gervase Elwes
10: Introduction to English Music
11: Elizabethan Music and the Modern World
12: Sir Donald Tovey
13: A. H. Fox Strangways, AET. LXXX
14: Making Your Own Music
15: Local Musicians
16: The Composer in Wartime
17: Introduction to News Chronicle Musical Competition Festival for HM Forces
18: First Performances
19: Art and Organization
20: Choral Singing
21: Carthusian Music in the Eighties
22: Howland Medal Lecture
23: Preface to London Symphony
24: Introduction to The Art of Singing
25: Some Reminiscences of the English Hymnal
26: Hands off the Third
Section 2: Continental Composers
27: Palestrina and Beethoven
28: Bach and Schumann
29: The Words of Wagner's Music Dramas
30: Brahms and Tchaikovsky
31: Ein Heldenleben
32: The Romantic in Music: Some Thoughts on Brahms
33: Verdi: A Symposium
34: Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951)
35: Sibelius at 90: Greatness and Popularity
Section 3: Folk Song
36: Preface to Journal of the Folk Song Society
37: Introduction to Folk Songs from the Eastern Counties
38: English Folk-Songs
39: Folk-Song in Chamber Music
40: Dance Tunes
41: Sailor Shanties
42: How to Sing a Folk-Song
43: The Late Mr. Frank Kidson
44: Lucy Broadwood: An Appreciation
45: Ella Mary Leather
46: Folk-Song
47: Cecil Sharp's Accompaniments
48: Arthur Somervell: June 5th 1866--May 2nd 1937
49: Cecil James Sharp (1859-1924)
50: Traditional Arts in the Twentieth Century
51: The Justification of Folk Song
52: Let us RememberEarly Days
53: Preface to Journal of the English Folk Dance and Song Society
54: Lucy Broadwood, 1858-1929
55: Appeal on Behalf of the English Folk Dance and Song Society
56: Preface to Index of English Songs
57: Address to the Fifth Conference of the International Folk Music Council
58: Cecil Sharp: An Appreciation
59: Preface to International Catalogue of Recorded Folk Music
60: Martin Shaw
61: Preface to Folksong-Plainsong
62: The Diamond Jubilee of the Folk Song Society
63: The English Folk Dance and Song Society
64: Introduction to Classic English Folk Songs
Section 4: British Composers
65: Sir Hubert Parry
66: Charles Villiers Stanford, by Some of his Pupils
67: Introductory Talk to Holst Memorial Concert
68: A Note on Gustav Holst
69: Gustav Theordore Holst (1874-1934)
70: Foreword to Eight Concerts of Henry Purcell's Music
71: Gustav Holst: A Great Composer
72: The Teaching of Parry and Stanford
73: Gerald Finzi: 1901-1956
74: Mr Gerald Finzi: A Many-Sided Man
75: Elgar Today
Section 5: Programme Notes on Vaughan Williams's Music
76: Heroic Elegy and Triumphal Epilogue
77: Pan's Anniversary
78: A Sea Symphony
79: A London Symphony
81: A Pastoral Symphony
82: Flos Campi
83: Piano Concerto
84: Fourth Symphony
85: Five Tudor Portraits
86: Sixth Symphony
87: Folk Songs of the Four Seasons
88: Sinfonia Antartica
89: The Pilgrim's Progress
90: Tuba Concerto
91: Violin Sonata
92: Eighth Symphony
93: Ninth Symphony
Section 6: Program Notes on the Music of Other Composers
94: Bach Cantatas
95: British Choral Music and Dvorák, Stabat Mater
96: Bach, St Matthew Passion
97: Dvorák, 'New World' Symphony
98: Elgar, Introduction and Allegro for String Orchestra
99: Gordon Jacob, Passacaglia on a Well-Known Theme
100: Weber, Overture Der Freisch:utz
101: Brahms, Choruses from the Requiem
102: George Dyson, The Canterbury Pilgrims
Select Bibliography of Folk Song Collections
Index
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 22.11.2007 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 150 music examples |
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 236 x 160 mm |
| Gewicht | 777 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Klassik / Oper / Musical |
| Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Musiktheorie / Musiklehre | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-19-518239-1 / 0195182391 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-518239-2 / 9780195182392 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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