The Choral Orchestral Works Of Ralph Vaughan Williams

Author : Stephen Town
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793606013
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Choral-Orchestral Works of Ralph Vaughan Williams written by Stephen Town and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-12-06 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Ralph Vaughan Williams
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Making of Music written by Ralph Vaughan Williams and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1976 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph is based on four lectures which the venerable and distinguished British composer delivered at Cornell University. He explains the nature of rhythm, the relation of folk music to the composer, why we make music, the social foundations of music, and more.

Author : Michael Kennedy
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Works of Ralph Vaughan Williams written by Michael Kennedy and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1971 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Ralph Vaughan Williams
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780758170484
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Some Thoughts on Beethoven's Choral Symphony, with Writings on Other Musical Subjects written by Ralph Vaughan Williams and published by . This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jonathan D. Green
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0810847205
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Conductor's Guide to Choral-Orchestral Works written by Jonathan D. Green and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2003 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surveys large choral-orchestral works written between 1900 and 1972 that contain some English text. Green examines eighty-nine works by forty-nine composers, from Elgar's Dream of Gerontius to Bernstein's Mass.

Author : Ralph Vaughan Williams
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781404792364
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beethoven's Choral Symphony written by Ralph Vaughan Williams and published by . This book was released on 1959-01-01 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ralph Vaughan Williams
Publisher : Promethean Editions Limited
ISBN 13 : 1776607139
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Electra written by Ralph Vaughan Williams and published by Promethean Editions Limited. This book was released on with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ralph Vaughan Williams’ incidental music for Gilbert Murray’s English translation of Euripides’ Electra is edited and arranged for orchestra by Alan Tongue. Vaughan Williams was brought into the production of three Greek plays by the dancer Isadora Duncan, with the public performance taking place at London’s Royal Court Theatre on Friday 31 May 1912. A preview of the production, appearing in The Globe, remarked of Vaughan Williams’ musical settings: “they are an attempt at something new, and something which is neither German nor French. This music is no experiment in style. It would seem, rather, as though the composer had disclaimed all styles and all schools, and found direct inspiration in the material of the poet’s inspiration, and the result is something of undeniable beauty.”

Author : Elliott Schwartz
Publisher : Da Capo Press, Incorporated
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Symphonies Of Ralph Vaughan Williams written by Elliott Schwartz and published by Da Capo Press, Incorporated. This book was released on 1982-01-21 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Simon Heffer
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 9781555534721
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vaughan Williams written by Simon Heffer and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2001 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A concise biography of the first truly English composer of the twentieth century.

Author : Ralph Vaughan Williams
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book National Music and Other Essays written by Ralph Vaughan Williams and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1987 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.