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The Cambridge companion to Vaughan Williams / edited by Alain Frogley and Aidan J. Thomson.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Cambridge companions to musicPublication details: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.Description: xx, 338 p. : ill., music ; 26 cmISBN:
  • 9780521197687 (hbk.) :
  • 9780521162906 (pbk.) :
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Contents:
The composer and society: family, politics, nation / Julian Onderdonk -- Vaughan Williams's musical apprenticeship / Byron Adams -- Becoming a national composer: critical reception to c. 1925 / Aidan J. Thomson -- History and geography: the early orchestral works and the first three symphonies / Alain Frogley -- The songs and shorter secular choral works / Sophie Fuller -- 'An Englishman and a democrat': Vaughan Williams, large choral works, and the British festival tradition / Charles Edward McGuire -- Folksong arrangements, hymn tunes and church music / Julian Onderdonk -- Music for stage and film / Eric Saylor -- Chamber music and works for soloist with orchestra / Christopher Mark -- The later symphonies / Julian Horton -- The public figure: Vaughan Williams as writer and activist / David Manning -- Vaughan Williams, Boult, and the BBC / Jenny Doctor -- Fluctuations in the response to the music of Ralph Vaughan Williams / Michael Kennedy -- Vaughan Williams and his successors: composers' forum / Peter Maxwell Davies, Piers Hellawell, Nicola LeFanu and Anthony Payne in conversation with Aidan J. Thomson.
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Books Books VWML AL VAUGHAN WILLIAMS (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Reference only 19040

Select bibliography: p. 321-325.

The composer and society: family, politics, nation / Julian Onderdonk -- Vaughan Williams's musical apprenticeship / Byron Adams -- Becoming a national composer: critical reception to c. 1925 / Aidan J. Thomson -- History and geography: the early orchestral works and the first three symphonies / Alain Frogley -- The songs and shorter secular choral works / Sophie Fuller -- 'An Englishman and a democrat': Vaughan Williams, large choral works, and the British festival tradition / Charles Edward McGuire -- Folksong arrangements, hymn tunes and church music / Julian Onderdonk -- Music for stage and film / Eric Saylor -- Chamber music and works for soloist with orchestra / Christopher Mark -- The later symphonies / Julian Horton -- The public figure: Vaughan Williams as writer and activist / David Manning -- Vaughan Williams, Boult, and the BBC / Jenny Doctor -- Fluctuations in the response to the music of Ralph Vaughan Williams / Michael Kennedy -- Vaughan Williams and his successors: composers' forum / Peter Maxwell Davies, Piers Hellawell, Nicola LeFanu and Anthony Payne in conversation with Aidan J. Thomson.

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