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Masques, mayings and music-dramas : Vaughan Williams and the early twentieth-century stage / Roger Savage.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Woodbridge : The Boydell Press, 2014.Description: ix, 390 p. : ill., music ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9781843839194
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 780.92 23
Contents:
Books to make a traveller of thee: pilgrims, vagabonds and the monodramas of Vaughan Williams -- A quarry for profitable working: staging the masques of Ben Jonson in London and Stratford-upon-Avon, 1903-1912 -- The Edens of Reginald Buckley: temples and tetralogies at Bayreuth, Stratford and Glastonbury -- 'One of the greatest composers the world has ever seen': Vaughan Williams and the Purcell revival -- 'What about an English ballet?': Edward Gordon Craig, music-theatre and Cupid and Psyche -- Alice Shortcake, Jenny Pluckpears and the Stratford-upon-Avon connections of Sir John in Love -- Bringing in the May: Alice Gomme, Cecil Sharp and Ralph Vaughan Williams at the Crystal Palace -- Vaughan Williams, the romany ryes and the Cambridge ritualists

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Books to make a traveller of thee: pilgrims, vagabonds and the monodramas of Vaughan Williams -- A quarry for profitable working: staging the masques of Ben Jonson in London and Stratford-upon-Avon, 1903-1912 -- The Edens of Reginald Buckley: temples and tetralogies at Bayreuth, Stratford and Glastonbury -- 'One of the greatest composers the world has ever seen': Vaughan Williams and the Purcell revival -- 'What about an English ballet?': Edward Gordon Craig, music-theatre and Cupid and Psyche -- Alice Shortcake, Jenny Pluckpears and the Stratford-upon-Avon connections of Sir John in Love -- Bringing in the May: Alice Gomme, Cecil Sharp and Ralph Vaughan Williams at the Crystal Palace -- Vaughan Williams, the romany ryes and the Cambridge ritualists

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