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Subject(s)

• Vaughan Williams, Ralph 1872-1958 [Browse]
• Composers—England—Biography [Browse]
• Vaughan Williams, Ralph 1872-1958—Criticism and interpretation [Browse]
• Music—England—20th century—History and criticism [Browse]

Author

• Frogley, Alain [Browse]
• Thomson, Aidan J., 1975- [Browse]

Series

Cambridge companions to music

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-325) and indexes.

Contents

• The composer and society: family, politics, nation / Julian Onderdonk
• Vaughan Williams's musical apprenticeship / Byron Adams
• Becoming a national composer: critical reception to c.1925 / Aidan J. Thomson
• History and geography: the early orchestral works and first three symphonies / Alain Frogley
• The songs and shorter secular choral works / Sophie Fuller
• 'An Englishman and a democrat': Vaughan Williams, large choral works and the English festival tradition / Charles Edward McGuire
• Folksong arrangements, hymn tunes, and church music / Julian Onderdonk
• Music for stage and film / Eric Saylor
• Chamber music and works for soloist with orchestra / Christopher Mark
• The later symphonies / Julian Horton
• The public figure: Vaughan Williams as writer and activist / David Manning
• Vaughan Williams, Boult, and the BBC / Jenny Doctor
• Fluctuations in the response to the music of Ralph Vaughan Williams / Michael Kennedy
• Vaughan Williams and his successors: composers' forum / Peter Maxwell Davies, Piers Hellawell, Nicola LeFanu and Anthony Payne in conversation with Aidan J. Thomson.

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ISBN

• 9780521197687 (hbk.)
• 0521197686 (hbk.)
• 9780521162906 (pbk.)
• 0521162904 (pbk.)

LCCN

2013016199

OCLC

842307545

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