Vaughan Williams Essays
Edited
by Byron Adams, University of California,
and Robin Wells, Charterhouse,
UK
£55.00
reduced to £52.50 post free
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’ compositional techniques
and influences, musical, literary and
visual.
Contents: List of
Vaughan Williams Fellows; Introduction;
The stages of revision of Vaughan Williams’s
6th Symphony, Byron Adams; Ralph
Vaughan Williams’s 5th Symphony: ideology
and aural tradition, Murray Dineen;
A deconstruction of William
Blake’s Vision:
Vaughan Williams and
Job, Alison McFarlanek Vaughan
Williams and the ‘night side of nature’:
octatonicism in Riders to the Sea, Walter
Clark; Full of fresh thoughts:
Vaughan Williams, Whitman and A Sea
Symphony, Stephen Town; Hymn tunes
from folk songs:
Vaughan Williams and
English hymnody Jolian Onderdonk;
The songs of travel of Robert Louis
Stevenson and Ralph Vaughan Williams,
Ruftts Hallmark; Four last songs,
Renée Clarke;
Critical response to the
first performance of A Pilgrims Progress,
Nathaniel Lea’; Music, film and
Vaughan Williams, Daniel Goldmark;
Vaughan Williams and the British
Music Festival, Charles McGuire;
Index.
Includes
8 b&w illustratlons
March 2003 304 pages
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