AL VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
The Cambridge companion to Vaughan Williams /
edited by Alain Frogley and Aidan J. Thomson.
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
- xx, 338 p. : ill., music ; 26 cm.
- Cambridge companions to music .
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.