The works of Ralph Vaughan Williams / Michael Kennedy.
| Author/creator | Kennedy, Michael |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | London, New York : Oxford University Press, 1964. |
| Description | xvi, 776 pages : frontispiece (portrait), 8 plates (including facsimiles, portraits, music) ; 23 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | The land without music? -- 1872-1895 -- Folk song and nationalism -- 1895-1906. Principal works. Bucolic suite ; Heroic elegy and triumphal epilogue ; Linden Lea ; Willow-wood ; In the Fen country ; The house of life ; Songs of travel ; Norfolk rhapsodies ; The English hymnal -- 1907-1914. Principal works. Toward the unknown region ; String quartet in G minor ; On Wenlock edge ; The Wasps incidental music ; A sea symphony ; Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis ; Five mystical songs ; Phantasy quintet ; A London symphony ; Five English folk songs -- 1914-1924. Principal works. The lark ascending ; A pastoral symphony ; Mass in G minor ; Old King Cole ; Four hymns ; English Folk Songs suite ; The shepherds of the delectable mountains ; Hugh the Drover -- 1925-1930. Principal works. Flos Campi ; Sancta civitas ; Violin concerto (concerto accademico) ; Songs of praise ; On Christmas night ; Along the field ; The Oxford book of carols ; Sir John in love ; Benedicite ; Three choral hymns ; Job -- 1931-1943. Principal works. Pianoforte concerto ; Magnificat ; Symphony (no. 4) in F minor ; Five tudor portraits ; The poisoned kiss ; Dona nobis pacem ; Riders to the sea ; Serenade to music ; The bridal day ; Symphony (no. 5) in D major -- 1943-1952. Principal works. Oboe concerto ; String quartet in A minor ; Symphony (no. 6) in E minor ; Folk songs of the four seasons ; An Oxford elegy ; Sinfonia Antartica ; Fantasia on the old 104th psalm tune ; The sons of light ; The pilgrim's progress ; Romance for harmonica -- 1953-1958. Tuba concerto ; Hodie ; Violin sonata ; Symphony no. 8 in D minor ; Epithalamion ; Symphony no. 9 in E minor ; Ten blake songs ; Four last songs ; The first nowell -- Some views on other composers -- Folk songs collected by Vaughan Williams -- Appendix 1. List of works ; Appendix 2. Folk songs collected by Vaughan Williams ; Appendix 3. Classified select bibliography / compiled by Peter Starbuck ; Appendix 4. List of recordings / compiled by F. F. Clough and G. J. Cuming. |
| Abstract | For this comprehensive account of Vaughan Williams's musical career, the author has had unrestricted access to the composer's private papers. The book includes many letters which illuminate Vaughan Williams's intentions and contains quotations from his writings and from contemporary reactions to his music over nearly sixty years. Besides the straightforward narrative of a full and busy life of music, there is a critical commentary on the works themselves. Special importance is attached to the authoritative catalogue of works which forms the first Appendix. All known published and unpublished works are listed here, with full details of instrumentation, revisions, and first performances. Particular attention has been given to accuracy of dates. All the composer's own programme notes are reprinted. For the first time it is possible to have a full picture of Vaughan Williams's creative activities before 1905 as well as of his career after he became firmly established. |
| General note | Includes index. |
| Bibliography note | "Classified select bibliography, compiled by Peter Starbuck": pages 682-724. |
| LCCN | 64056920 |
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