The Works Of Ralph Vaughan Williams
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| Author | : Stephen Town |
| Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
| Total Pages | : 325 |
| Release | : 2019-12-06 |
| Genre | : Music |
| ISBN | : 1793606013 |
The Choral-Orchestral Works of Ralph Vaughan Williams: Autographs, Context, Discourse combines contextual knowledge, a musical commentary, an inventory of the holograph manuscripts, and a critical assessment of the opus to create substantial and meticulous examinations of Ralph Vaughan Williams’s choral-orchestral works. The contents include an equitable choice of pieces from the various stages in the life of the composer and an analysis of pieces from the various stages of Williams’s life. The earliest are taken from the pre-World War I years, when Vaughan Williams was constructing his identity as an academic and musician—Vexilla Regis (1894), Mass (1899), and A Sea Symphony (1910). The middle group are chosen from the interwar period—Sancta Civitas (1925), Benedicite (1929), Magnificat (1932), Five Tudor Portraits (1935), Dona nobis pacem (1936)—written after Vaughan Williams had found his mature voice. The last cluster—Thanksgiving for Victory (1944), Fantasia (Quasi Variazione) on the ‘Old 104’ Psalm Tune(1949), Sons of Light (1950), Hodie (1954), The Bridal Day/Epithalamion (1938/1957)—typify the works finished or revisited during the final years of the composer’s life, near the end of the Second World War and immediately before or after his second marriage (1953).
| Author | : Michael Kennedy |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 428 |
| Release | : 1971 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : |
This is the authoritative account of Vaughan Williams's musical life-- the story of a great composer's career, and at the same time the story of music in England for over half a century. Kennedy considers the principal works in chronological order, outlining the main features of each anddiscussing details of the music's structure, often illuminating his point with a musical quotation. He also provides a good deal of biographical data, and so builds up a picture of the composer, as well as providing thumbnail sketches of many of Vaughan Williams's friends and colleagues. Kennedy'sextensive knowledge of Vaughan Williams's output also enables him to refer back and forth across the works to pick out lines of development and influence. Along with Michael Kennedy's new preface, the second edition includes a full classified list of Vaughan Williams's works.
| Author | : Michael Kennedy |
| Publisher | : London, Oxford U. P |
| Total Pages | : 818 |
| Release | : 1964 |
| Genre | : Composers |
| ISBN | : |
"For this comprehensive account of Vaughan Williams's musical career, the author has had unrestricted access to the composer's private papers. This book includes many letters which illuminate Vaughan Williams's intentions and contains quotations from his writings and from contemporary reactions to his music over nearly sixty years. Besides the straightforward narrative of a full and busy life of music, there is a critical commentary on the works themselves. Special importance is attached to the authoritative catalogue of works which forms the first appendix. All known published and unpublished works are listed here, with full details of instrumentation, revisions, and first performances. Particular attention has been given to accuracy of dates. All the composer's own programme notes are reprinted. For the first time it is possible to have a full picture of Vaughan Williams's creative activities before 1905 as well as of his career after he became firmly established." --Book jacket.
| Author | : Ryan Ross |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 337 |
| Release | : 2016-03-17 |
| Genre | : Music |
| ISBN | : 1317646169 |
Critical annotations and supportive text will direct scholars to the most relevant studies in their discipline Multiple indices make it easy to locate items within the guide
| Author | : Michael Kennedy |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 1995 |
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| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Jon C. Mitchell |
| Publisher | : Hal Leonard Corporation |
| Total Pages | : 196 |
| Release | : 2008 |
| Genre | : Music |
| ISBN | : 9781574630985 |
(Meredith Music Resource). This exciting work, by one of today's most highly regarded music scholars, brings new light to the more than two dozen works by Ralph Vaughan Williams for military band, brass band and wind ensemble. Vaughan Williams' unique relationship with fellow composer Gustav Holst is examined as well as his relationships with personnel at the Royal Military School of Music, the BBC and the Salvation Army. There's much more in this hard-to-put-down volume for conductors, performers, students and aficionados! "...the contributions of Jon Mitchell have become a cornerstone of serious scholarship in our field. ...a welcome insight into the life and works of Vaughan Williams. Contained within are valuable insights into the world of Vaughan Williams that, for the majority of us, will be an undiscovered country." Craig Kirchhoff Professor of Music/Director of Bands University of Minnesota (a href="http://youtu.be/8U3fN1SPXVE" target="_blank")Click here for a YouTube video on Ralph Vaughan Williams' Wind Works(/a)
| Author | : Ralph Vaughan Williams |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 340 |
| Release | : 1987 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : |
Written by one of the greatest of English composers, this revised edition of Ralph Vaughan Williams's essays features a new introduction by Michael Kennedy plus several new essays.
| Author | : Lionel Pike |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 360 |
| Release | : 2003 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : |
Vaughan Williams' nine symphonies are among the finest pieces of music written in the twentieth century, each one revealing new aspects of Vaughan Williams' formidable creative personality. But for many years these works were undervalued by imperceptive critics - and Vaughan Williams did himself no favours by joking, with misplaced humility, about what he felt was his own lack of expertise. Lionel Pike's penetrating analysis of all nine works reveals the hidden complexities that lie below the surface. He argues that RVW' has been consistently denied his rightful place in twentieth-century music and in the history of the symphony, and that close investigation can uncover elements of construction that show the mind of a genius at work. LIONEL PIKE is Senior Lecturer in Music at Royal Holloway (University of London), and has been organist of the college chapel since 1969. For four years he was Dean of the Faculty of Music in the University of London. He was a chorister and assistant organist at Bristol Cathedral, and at the University of Oxford he was organ scholar of Pembroke College.
| Author | : Alain Frogley |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 361 |
| Release | : 2013-11-14 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0521197686 |
A comprehensive reassessment of this towering figure of twentieth-century music, examining works, cultural context and reception in Britain and beyond.
| Author | : Robin Wells |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 312 |
| Release | : 2017-07-05 |
| Genre | : Music |
| ISBN | : 1351537792 |
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.
