Vaughan Williams on MusicOxford University Press, 27.11.2007 - 304 Seiten This book makes a substantial collection of Vaughan Williams's writings widely available to music lovers, students, and researchers alike. It comprises 102 items written by the composer between 1897 and the year of his death, 1958, including articles for musical magazines, transcripts of broadcasts, obituary notices and program notes. The great majority of items in this anthology have been unavailable since their initial publication, some have never been published, and very few have been reprinted. Vaughan Williams reveals the many roles he played during his life in the pages of this book: he was an active supporter of amateur music-makers, a leader in the folksong revival, educator, performer, campaigner for English music, and polemicist. Through all these perspectives, the words are unmistakably those of a composer who came to believe it his duty to build an active and cohesive musical community within his native country. |
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... audiences, and unduly influencing the musical style of native composers. To write genuinely original music, he explains, the English composer should focus on his own country and its culture, rather than attempt an imitation of the ...
... audiences, and unduly influencing the musical style of native composers. To write genuinely original music, he explains, the English composer should focus on his own country and its culture, rather than attempt an imitation of the ...
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... audience. Vaughan Williams's articles on continental composers, in Part II, are drawn from opposite ends of his musical career. The early items (1902–10), like the first chapters in Part I, reveal the composer grappling with the legacy ...
... audience. Vaughan Williams's articles on continental composers, in Part II, are drawn from opposite ends of his musical career. The early items (1902–10), like the first chapters in Part I, reveal the composer grappling with the legacy ...
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... audiences could enjoy a wide range of works at this annual festival with which his name is indelibly associated. By reading the items in this collection, and the books and essays collected in National Music and Other Essays, we can ...
... audiences could enjoy a wide range of works at this annual festival with which his name is indelibly associated. By reading the items in this collection, and the books and essays collected in National Music and Other Essays, we can ...
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... audience unwilling to give them wakeful attention, namely, that the drama has already been enacted by the Allegro, Scherzo, and Adagio, leaving to the poor Finale the thankless task of lowering the curtain. Whether this difficult state ...
... audience unwilling to give them wakeful attention, namely, that the drama has already been enacted by the Allegro, Scherzo, and Adagio, leaving to the poor Finale the thankless task of lowering the curtain. Whether this difficult state ...
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... audience may be interested is only one way of guessing at the motives which led the composer to express himself as he did. The art of keeping an audience awake may not be the glory of the musical temple, but it is a foundation without ...
... audience may be interested is only one way of guessing at the motives which led the composer to express himself as he did. The art of keeping an audience awake may not be the glory of the musical temple, but it is a foundation without ...
Inhalt
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CONTINENTAL COMPOSERS | 123 |
FOLK SONG | 179 |
BRITISH COMPOSERS | 293 |
PROGRAMME NOTES ON VAUGHAN WILLIAMSS MUSIC | 329 |
PROGRAMME NOTES ON THE MUSIC OF OTHER COMPOSERS | 399 |
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY OF FOLK SONG COLLECTIONS | 423 |
INDEX | 425 |
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