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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... nature of music in passages such as the one quoted above. Secondly, given the interrelationship of life and music advocated in the writings, we can also read Vaughan Williams's own accounts of his social and cultural interactions—in the ...
... nature of music in passages such as the one quoted above. Secondly, given the interrelationship of life and music advocated in the writings, we can also read Vaughan Williams's own accounts of his social and cultural interactions—in the ...
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... nature of his musical aesthetics, applying his underlying principles to the specific context of making music in the armed forces, as he had done himself during the First World War. This section of the book also illustrates Vaughan ...
... nature of his musical aesthetics, applying his underlying principles to the specific context of making music in the armed forces, as he had done himself during the First World War. This section of the book also illustrates Vaughan ...
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... nature of music and the vocation of composer are stated unequivocally. He may write on a diversity of topics, but the central themes— originality, folk song, a sense of history, the importance of self-expression—keep returning. Vaughan ...
... nature of music and the vocation of composer are stated unequivocally. He may write on a diversity of topics, but the central themes— originality, folk song, a sense of history, the importance of self-expression—keep returning. Vaughan ...
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... nature, abhors a vacuum, and the lack of musical qualities had to be made up from without; thus, instead of the power to organize their ideas through the means of a nice sense of proportion, there came upon the first romantic composers ...
... nature, abhors a vacuum, and the lack of musical qualities had to be made up from without; thus, instead of the power to organize their ideas through the means of a nice sense of proportion, there came upon the first romantic composers ...
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... nature. This cannot be done except by the co-operation of one of the other arts, namely, that of the dramatist; and thus an external growth, having in it some of the characteristics of dramatic art, is grafted on to the musical stem ...
... nature. This cannot be done except by the co-operation of one of the other arts, namely, that of the dramatist; and thus an external growth, having in it some of the characteristics of dramatic art, is grafted on to the musical stem ...
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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