The Symphonies Of Ralph Vaughan Williams
Author: Elliott Schwartz
Publisher: Da Capo Press, Incorporated
Published: 1982-01-21
Total Pages: 272
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Elliott Schwartz
Publisher: Da Capo Press, Incorporated
Published: 1982-01-21
Total Pages: 272
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Lionel Pike
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Published: 2003
Total Pages: 360
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Vaughan Williams' nine symphonies are among the finest pieces of music written in the twentieth century, each one revealing new aspects of Vaughan Williams' formidable creative personality. But for many years these works were undervalued by imperceptive critics - and Vaughan Williams did himself no favours by joking, with misplaced humility, about what he felt was his own lack of expertise. Lionel Pike's penetrating analysis of all nine works reveals the hidden complexities that lie below the surface. He argues that RVW' has been consistently denied his rightful place in twentieth-century music and in the history of the symphony, and that close investigation can uncover elements of construction that show the mind of a genius at work. LIONEL PIKE is Senior Lecturer in Music at Royal Holloway (University of London), and has been organist of the college chapel since 1969. For four years he was Dean of the Faculty of Music in the University of London. He was a chorister and assistant organist at Bristol Cathedral, and at the University of Oxford he was organ scholar of Pembroke College.
Author: Hubert James Foss
Publisher: Greenwood
Published: 1974
Total Pages: 232
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Alain Frogley
Publisher: Studies in Musical Genesis, St
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 350
ISBN-13: 9780198162841
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Ever since its premiere just before the composer's death, Vaughan Williams's Ninth Symphony has divided critical opinion and remained something of an enigma. Yet the composer thought highly of the work, and went against his usual practice by preserving all the sketches. This study, the firstof its kind on a work of Vaughan Williams, analyses the symphony and traces its genesis through hundreds of pages of sketches and drafts; it also offers a general introduction to the composer's working methods. The manuscripts show how the composer worked meticulously to create the complexexpressive ambivalence of the finished work, transforming in the process simpler conceptions redolent of his earlier music. Most crucially, however, the sketches reveal an underlying programme, centred on the theme of innocent sacrifice and drawing on Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Stonehenge,and Salisbury Cathedral. Vaughan Williams's new musical path in the symphony, it emerges, was closely allied to the continuing evolution of his visionary agnosticism.
Author: Ralph Vaughan Williams
Publisher: Praeger
Published: 1976
Total Pages: 80
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This monograph is based on four lectures which the venerable and distinguished British composer delivered at Cornell University. He explains the nature of rhythm, the relation of folk music to the composer, why we make music, the social foundations of music, and more.
Author: Alain Frogley
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1996-12-12
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9780521480314
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A collection of essays on Vaughan Williams explores his musical language, cultural context and biography.
Author: Hugh Ottaway
Publisher: London : British Broadcasting Corporations
Published: 1972
Total Pages: 72
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Ryan Ross
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-03-17
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 1317646150
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Ralph Vaughan Williams: A Research and Information Guide presents the most extensive annotated bibliography of its subject yet produced. It offers comprehensive coverage of the English composer's prose works and accounts for over 1,000 secondary sources from all critical and scholarly eras. A single-numbering format and substantial indexes facilitate efficient searches of what is the most complete bibliography of Ralph Vaughan Williams since Neil Butterworth's guide to research was published by Garland in 1990.
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.