Ralph Vaughan Williams succeeded Elgar as the leading English composer of his time. After a period of comparative neglect in the 1960s, his music is returning to worldwide popularity, and numerous CD recordings of his works are appearing. This book, expanded, revised, and brought up to date, takes account of much new work on his life and music, and presents Vaughan Williams as essentially part of the great post-Romantic reaction led by such composers as Debussy and Stravinsky. Day attempts to show how his experiences in World War I, as well as the circumstances of his life, intellectual and musical environment, and education helped him to create an oeuvre that is not only self-consistent, but wide-ranging, with a depth, power, and intensity.
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"...this is an ideal introduction to the composer for general readers and undergraduates."--Choice
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Since 1988 James Day has been Inspector of Language Schools for the British Council as well as a writer on music for the local press in Cambridge.
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If intellectual greatness can be inherited, then Ralph Vaughan Williams was surely marked out from birth for some kind of eminence in art, industry, scholarship, or science. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
arranged for male voices, unaccompanied mixed voices, double string orchestra, poisoned kiss, pianoforte accompaniment, unison voices, unison song, mixed chorus, national opera company, melodic idiom, andante sostenuto, vocal score, harmonic procedures, miniature score, solo viola, trio section, minor symphony, baritone soloist, first performance, unison singing, alla marcia Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Vaughan Williams, Pastoral Symphony, Michael Kennedy, Adrian Boult, World War, London Symphony, National Music, Sancta Civitas, Sixth Symphony, The Pilgrim's Progress, Sea Symphony, Hubert Parry, Hugh the Drover, Leith Hill Festival, Symphony Orchestra, Leith Hill Place, Tallis Fantasia, The English Hymnal, Queen's Hall, Sir John, Five Tudor Portraits, Flos Cam, Royal College of Music, Three Choirs Festival, Bach Choir New!
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arranged for male voices, unaccompanied mixed voices, double string orchestra, poisoned kiss, pianoforte accompaniment, unison voices, unison song, mixed chorus, national opera company, melodic idiom, andante sostenuto, vocal score, harmonic procedures, miniature score, solo viola, trio section, minor symphony, baritone soloist, first performance, unison singing, alla marcia Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Vaughan Williams, Pastoral Symphony, Michael Kennedy, Adrian Boult, World War, London Symphony, National Music, Sancta Civitas, Sixth Symphony, The Pilgrim's Progress, Sea Symphony, Hubert Parry, Hugh the Drover, Leith Hill Festival, Symphony Orchestra, Leith Hill Place, Tallis Fantasia, The English Hymnal, Queen's Hall, Sir John, Five Tudor Portraits, Flos Cam, Royal College of Music, Three Choirs Festival, Bach Choir New!
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