The Choral-Orchestral Works of Ralph Vaughan Williams

The Choral-Orchestral Works of Ralph Vaughan Williams
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Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages : 325
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ISBN-10 : 9781793606013
ISBN-13 : 1793606013
Rating : 4/5 (13 Downloads)

Synopsis The Choral-Orchestral Works of Ralph Vaughan Williams by : Stephen Town

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).

Vaughan Williams and the Symphony

Vaughan Williams and the Symphony
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Total Pages : 360
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ISBN-10 : STANFORD:36105026580527
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Rating : 4/5 (27 Downloads)

Synopsis Vaughan Williams and the Symphony by : Lionel Pike

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.

Vaughan Williams

Vaughan Williams
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 361
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ISBN-10 : 9780190918569
ISBN-13 : 019091856X
Rating : 4/5 (69 Downloads)

Synopsis Vaughan Williams by : Eric Saylor

"This single-volume life-and-works biography of Ralph Vaughan Williams provides a contemporary reassessment of one of the twentieth century's most versatile, influential, and enduringly popular British musicians. Throughout his wide-ranging career-as composer, conductor, editor, scholar, folksong collector, teacher, author, administrator, and philanthropist-Vaughan Williams worked tirelessly to improve the standards and quality of British musical life. His compelling and original musical language-inspired in part by elements drawn from English folksong, French impressionism, Wagnerian post-chromaticism, Tudor-era sacred music, and Anglican hymnody-presented a distinctively British response to musical modernism over his sixty-year-long career, and in works ranging from art songs for amateurs to perhaps the finest symphonic cycle of the twentieth century. Alternating between biographical and analytical chapters, it draws upon previously inaccessible primary sources alongside a wealth of secondary material to craft a concise and engaging overview of Vaughan Williams's life and music"--

Ralph Vaughan Williams' Wind Works

Ralph Vaughan Williams' Wind Works
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Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Total Pages : 196
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ISBN-10 : 1574630989
ISBN-13 : 9781574630985
Rating : 4/5 (89 Downloads)

Synopsis Ralph Vaughan Williams' Wind Works by : Jon C. Mitchell

(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)

The Works of Ralph Vaughan Williams

The Works of Ralph Vaughan Williams
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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages : 454
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ISBN-10 : 0193154536
ISBN-13 : 9780193154537
Rating : 4/5 (36 Downloads)

Synopsis The Works of Ralph Vaughan Williams by : Michael Kennedy

This authoritative account of Vaughan William's musical life portrays the story of a great composer's career, and traces the course of music in England during his lifetime. The edition includes a comprehensive list of his work, and an index.

Vaughan Williams

Vaughan Williams
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Publisher : UPNE
Total Pages : 192
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ISBN-10 : 1555534724
ISBN-13 : 9781555534721
Rating : 4/5 (24 Downloads)

Synopsis Vaughan Williams by : Simon Heffer

A concise biography of the first truly English composer of the twentieth century.

The Cambridge Companion to Vaughan Williams

The Cambridge Companion to Vaughan Williams
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 361
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ISBN-10 : 9780521197687
ISBN-13 : 0521197686
Rating : 4/5 (87 Downloads)

Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to Vaughan Williams by : Alain Frogley

A comprehensive reassessment of this towering figure of twentieth-century music, examining works, cultural context and reception in Britain and beyond.

Five Mystical Songs

Five Mystical Songs
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Total Pages : 52
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ISBN-10 : CUB:U183001130971
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Rating : 4/5 (71 Downloads)

Synopsis Five Mystical Songs by : Ralph Vaughan Williams

Ralph Vaughan Williams

Ralph Vaughan Williams
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 356
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ISBN-10 : 9781317646150
ISBN-13 : 1317646150
Rating : 4/5 (50 Downloads)

Synopsis Ralph Vaughan Williams by : Ryan Ross

Ralph Vaughan Williams: A Research and Information Guide presents the most extensive annotated bibliography of its subject yet produced. It offers comprehensive coverage of the English composer's prose works and accounts for over 1,000 secondary sources from all critical and scholarly eras. A single-numbering format and substantial indexes facilitate efficient searches of what is the most complete bibliography of Ralph Vaughan Williams since Neil Butterworth's guide to research was published by Garland in 1990.