Vaughan Williams Essays

by Wells,Robin

• ISBN13: 9781859283875
• ISBN10: 185928387X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2016-08-08
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Serious scholarship on the music of Ralph Vaughan Williams is currently enjoying a lively revival after a period of relative quiescence, and is only beginning to address the enduring affection of concert audiences for his music. The essays that comprise this volume extend the study of Vaughan Williams's music in new directions that will be of interest to scholars, performers and listeners alike. This volume contains the work of eleven North American scholars who have been recipients of the Ralph Vaughan Williams Fellowship based at the composer's own school, Charterhouse, which was created and has been supported by the Carthusian Trust since 1985.This wide-ranging and detailed collection of essays covers the spectrum of genres in which Vaughan Williams wrote, including dance, symphony, opera, song, hymnody and film music. The contributors also employ a range of analytical and historical methods of investigation to illuminate aspects of Vaughan Williams's compositional techniques and influences, musical, literary and visual.

Table of Contents

List of Music Examples	vii
List of Plates	ix
List of Tables	xi
Acknowledgements	xiii
List of Ralph Vaughan Williams Fellows, 1985--2002	xv
Introduction	xvii
Byron Adams
The Stages of Revision of Vaughan Williams's Sixth Symphony	1	(16)
Byron Adams
Vaughan Williams's Fifth Symphony: Ideology and Aural Tradition	17	(12)
Murray Dineen
A Deconstruction of William Blake's Vision: Vaughan Williams and Job	29	(26)
Alison Sanders McFarland
Vaughan Williams and the `night side of nature': Octatonicism in Riders to the Sea	55	(18)
Walter Aaron Clark
`Full of fresh thoughts': Vaughan Williams, Whitman and the Genesis of A Sea Symphony	73	(30)
Stephen Town
Hymn Tunes from Folk-songs: Vaughan Williams and English Hymnody	103	(26)
Julian Onderdonk
Robert Louis Stevenson, Ralph Vaughan Williams and their Songs of Travel	129	(28)
Rufus Hallmark
A Critical Appraisal of the Four Last Songs	157	(18)
Renee Cherie Clark
`Words and music that are forever England': The Pilgrim's Progress and the pitfalls of nostalgia	175	(32)
Nathaniel G. Lew
Music, Film and Vaughan Williams	207	(28)
Daniel Goldmark
Vaughan Williams and the English Music Festival: 1910	235	(34)
Charles Edward McGuire
Contributors	269	(4)
Index	273