A biography of Ralph Vaughan Williams, published in collaboration with the Bard Music Festival.
Ralph Vaughan Williams (18721958) 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 Williamss scores would attain immense popularity worldwide. Yet the present renown of these pieces has led to misapprehension about the nature of Vaughan Williamss cultural nationalism and a distorted view of his international cultural and musical significance.
Vaughan Williams and His World traces the composers stylistic and aesthetic development in a broadly chronological fashion, reappraising Vaughan Williamss 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 Williamss deeply held progressive ethical and democratic convictions while celebrating his achievements as a composer.
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Acknowledgments
Ralph Vaughan Williams: Man and MusicAn Introduction
Byron Adams and Daniel M. Grimley
Vaughan Williams and Cambridge
Julian Rushton
Vaughan Williams and the Royal College of Music
Erica Siegel
Vaughan Williamss The Letter and the Spirit (1920)
Introduced and Annotated by Ceri Owen
Modernist Image in Vaughan Williamss 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 Williamss Lecture on the St. Matthew Passion (1938)
Introduced and Annotated by Eric Saylor
Vaughan Williamss Common Ground
Sarah Collins and Daniel M. Grimley
Tracing a Biography: Michael Kennedys Correspondence Concerning The Works
of Ralph Vaughan Williams
Introduced and Annotated by Daniel M. Grimley and Byron Adams
His own idiom: Vaughan Williamss 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
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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