Vaughan Williams on MusicOxford University Press, 27 de nov. de 2007 - 304 páginas This book makes a substantial collection of Vaughan Williams's writings widely available to music lovers, students, and researchers alike. It comprises 102 items written by the composer between 1897 and the year of his death, 1958, including articles for musical magazines, transcripts of broadcasts, obituary notices and program notes. The great majority of items in this anthology have been unavailable since their initial publication, some have never been published, and very few have been reprinted. Vaughan Williams reveals the many roles he played during his life in the pages of this book: he was an active supporter of amateur music-makers, a leader in the folksong revival, educator, performer, campaigner for English music, and polemicist. Through all these perspectives, the words are unmistakably those of a composer who came to believe it his duty to build an active and cohesive musical community within his native country. |
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... beautiful application of ideas to life,—to the question: How to live.' See Essays in Criticism: Second Series (London: Macmillan, 1888), 143–4. a CM is 'common metre', LM is 'long metre', referring 14 vaughan williams on music.
... beautiful application of ideas to life,—to the question: How to live.' See Essays in Criticism: Second Series (London: Macmillan, 1888), 143–4. a CM is 'common metre', LM is 'long metre', referring 14 vaughan williams on music.
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... beautiful which has inspired the collectors of English country tunes. If it had not been for their care and labour we should have lost much that is beautiful; but new wine can not be put into old bottles, and it is surely doubtful if ...
... beautiful which has inspired the collectors of English country tunes. If it had not been for their care and labour we should have lost much that is beautiful; but new wine can not be put into old bottles, and it is surely doubtful if ...
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... beautiful music is produced. Equipped with this knowledge, he proceeds to build up compositions with yard-measure and plumb-line, quite forgetting that no man can make a living body out of dead clay unless he has first stolen some of ...
... beautiful music is produced. Equipped with this knowledge, he proceeds to build up compositions with yard-measure and plumb-line, quite forgetting that no man can make a living body out of dead clay unless he has first stolen some of ...
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... beautiful and a steam whistle is not, is that the voice can be made the medium of the best and deepest human emotion. The beauty of the singer's art is not a question of mere noise, it is a question of the human effort and human ...
... beautiful and a steam whistle is not, is that the voice can be made the medium of the best and deepest human emotion. The beauty of the singer's art is not a question of mere noise, it is a question of the human effort and human ...
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... beautiful and simple songs simply brimming over with tune. What song has a more distinct tune than Schubert's 'Sylvia'? And what can be simpler than Beethoven's 'Kennst du das Land'? The first of these, at all events, can be sung in ...
... beautiful and simple songs simply brimming over with tune. What song has a more distinct tune than Schubert's 'Sylvia'? And what can be simpler than Beethoven's 'Kennst du das Land'? The first of these, at all events, can be sung in ...
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CONTINENTAL COMPOSERS | 123 |
FOLK SONG | 179 |
BRITISH COMPOSERS | 293 |
PROGRAMME NOTES ON VAUGHAN WILLIAMSS MUSIC | 329 |
PROGRAMME NOTES ON THE MUSIC OF OTHER COMPOSERS | 399 |
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY OF FOLK SONG COLLECTIONS | 423 |
INDEX | 425 |
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