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Author: Nigel Simeone
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Published: 2022-10-04
Total Pages: 331
ISBN-13: 1783277297
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The first detailed study of the working relationship and productive friendship between Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) and Adrian Boult (1889-1983).
Author: Michael Kennedy
Publisher: London, Oxford U. P
Published: 1964
Total Pages: 818
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"For this comprehensive account of Vaughan Williams's musical career, the author has had unrestricted access to the composer's private papers. This book includes many letters which illuminate Vaughan Williams's intentions and contains quotations from his writings and from contemporary reactions to his music over nearly sixty years. Besides the straightforward narrative of a full and busy life of music, there is a critical commentary on the works themselves. Special importance is attached to the authoritative catalogue of works which forms the first appendix. All known published and unpublished works are listed here, with full details of instrumentation, revisions, and first performances. Particular attention has been given to accuracy of dates. All the composer's own programme notes are reprinted. For the first time it is possible to have a full picture of Vaughan Williams's creative activities before 1905 as well as of his career after he became firmly established." --Book jacket.
Author: Simon Heffer
Publisher: UPNE
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9781555534721
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A concise biography of the first truly English composer of the twentieth century.
Author: Hugh Cobbe
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2010-09-09
Total Pages: 688
ISBN-13: 0191615269
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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: for example 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 Sharpe who provided texts; with his publishers (mainly OUP) about printing 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, and latterly 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.
Author: Byron Adams
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2023-08-05
Total Pages: 346
ISBN-13: 0226830454
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Author: Neil Butterworth
Publisher: New York : Garland Pub.
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 400
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: James Day
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 376
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Revised and expanded, this book considers recent work on the life and music of this leading English composer Day presents Vaughan Williams as a part of the great post-Romantic reactionary movement in the company of composers such as Debussy and Stravinsky. The author also demonstrates that the circumstances of Vaughan William's life are reflected in his wide-ranging, powerful, and intense music.
Author: Ursula Vaughan Williams
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 486
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →With the unique authority of his personal papers, her intimate knowledge of the man in the last years of his life, and the imaginative, insight of a professional writer, Mrs. Vaughan Williams has drawn the portrait of a great Englishman.--Times Literary Supplement Essential reading More ... for anyone who cares deeply about the music of this great composer ... Her writing is so fluent and her expository skill so detailed and fine that the result makes one want to turn again to the music about which one has been reading ... Surely definitive ... this enthralling book is thoroughly recommended.
Author: Paul Holmes
Publisher: Omnibus Press
Published: 2011-05-16
Total Pages: 221
ISBN-13: 0857125702
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This series of biographies presents the great composers against the background of their times. Each draws on personal letters and recollections, engravings, paintings and, when they exist, photographs, to present a complete picture of the composer's life.
