This study, the first of its kind on a work of Vaughan Williams, traces the genesis of the composer's enigmatic final symphony as documented in the surviving manuscripts. The latter reveal an underlying program based on Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles, and chart the composer's struggle to find the technical means by which to realize his most complex spiritual vision.
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"Alain Frogley's book is a landmark contribution to a steadily growing field of research into Vaughan Williams...[the book] is the result of more than fifteen years of meticulous and imaginative research that has come together to form an extended, highly organized study full of immense and telling detail. ...a most welcome addition to the literature."--Music and Letters
"[M]agisterial study...[R]igorous, nuanced, and ultimately enlightening."--Journal of Musicological Research
"This book is the result of an extended period of reflection, and represents a heroic labor of love and scholarship....He meditates brilliantly upon inner narrative of the symphony."--Journal of the RVW Society, February 2002
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Lecturer in Music, Magdalen College, Oxford, 1989 Lecturer in Music, Lancaster University, 1989-94 Associate Professor of Music at University of Connecticut, Storrs, since 1994
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Thus wrote Vaughan Williams in the last year of his life, in response to a proposal to exhibit manuscripts of his symphonies at the premiere of the Ninth. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
autograph short score, pastedown page, situ revisions, final autograph full score, first principal draft, znd subject, semitone tensions, principal drafts, symphony manuscripts, programmatic origins, programmatic inscriptions, booming tune, semitone relationships, revision chain, ghostly drummer, finished movement, musical genesis, tonal centre, crotchet triplet, compositional chronology, quaver motion, sketch related, scherzo section, upbeat figure, main draft Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Vaughan Williams, Michael Kennedy, Roy Douglas, Eighth Symphony, Salisbury Plain, Vaughan Wilhams, Sixth Symphony, First World War, Thomas Hardy, Alan Frank, Sinfonia Antartica, Egdon Heath, Lamb of God, New York, Salisbury Cathedral, Sea Symphony, The Apostles, The Solent, Sancta Civitas, British Museum, Great War, South Tidworth, The Mayor of Casterbridge, The Pilgrims Progress, Alain Frogley New!
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Thus wrote Vaughan Williams in the last year of his life, in response to a proposal to exhibit manuscripts of his symphonies at the premiere of the Ninth. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
autograph short score, pastedown page, situ revisions, final autograph full score, first principal draft, znd subject, semitone tensions, principal drafts, symphony manuscripts, programmatic origins, programmatic inscriptions, booming tune, semitone relationships, revision chain, ghostly drummer, finished movement, musical genesis, tonal centre, crotchet triplet, compositional chronology, quaver motion, sketch related, scherzo section, upbeat figure, main draft Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Vaughan Williams, Michael Kennedy, Roy Douglas, Eighth Symphony, Salisbury Plain, Vaughan Wilhams, Sixth Symphony, First World War, Thomas Hardy, Alan Frank, Sinfonia Antartica, Egdon Heath, Lamb of God, New York, Salisbury Cathedral, Sea Symphony, The Apostles, The Solent, Sancta Civitas, British Museum, Great War, South Tidworth, The Mayor of Casterbridge, The Pilgrims Progress, Alain Frogley New!
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- Thomas Hardy of Wessex by Jane Drake on 7 pages
- Vaughan Williams by Alan E. Dickinson on 5 pages
- The Mayor Of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy on 4 pages
- The Mayor of Casterbridge (Bantam Classics) by Thomas Hardy on 4 pages
- The Return of the Native (Modern Library Classics) by Thomas Hardy on page 261, page 262, and page 273
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- Vaughan Williams (Master Musicians) by James Day in Back Matter
- Bartok's Viola Concerto: The Remarkable Story of His Swansong (Studies in Musical Genesis and Structure) by Donald Maurice in Front Matter
- Vaughan Williams Studies (Cambridge Composer Studies) by Alain Frogley on page 179
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