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. |
De dentro do livro
Resultados 1-5 de 77
Página 18
... melody has been misunderstood—we are not unmusical, but insincere. A musician who wishes to say anything worth saying must first of all express himself—in fact, his music must be the natural utterance of his own natural emotions. These ...
... melody has been misunderstood—we are not unmusical, but insincere. A musician who wishes to say anything worth saying must first of all express himself—in fact, his music must be the natural utterance of his own natural emotions. These ...
Página 20
... melody of the Scherzo. But usually this sensational awakening is reserved for that part of the movement where the attention is likely to be most wearied, that is to say, at the end. The ear, which has been deadened by the steady ...
... melody of the Scherzo. But usually this sensational awakening is reserved for that part of the movement where the attention is likely to be most wearied, that is to say, at the end. The ear, which has been deadened by the steady ...
Página 26
... melody nor rhythm. Melody—a real tune, must be vital and individual; and individuality is just what the musical penny-ice-man abhors. He makes his poisonous sweetmeats out of old scraps. Phrases picked up here and there from the ...
... melody nor rhythm. Melody—a real tune, must be vital and individual; and individuality is just what the musical penny-ice-man abhors. He makes his poisonous sweetmeats out of old scraps. Phrases picked up here and there from the ...
Página 27
... melody and rhythm. The words of these precious productions are worthy companions to the music. Most of them are only saved from blasphemy or indecency by being absolutely meaningless. Often a vicious and mechanical emotion is stirred by ...
... melody and rhythm. The words of these precious productions are worthy companions to the music. Most of them are only saved from blasphemy or indecency by being absolutely meaningless. Often a vicious and mechanical emotion is stirred by ...
Página 29
... melody. There is not a vocalist who could not learn to sing 'Barbara Allen', or 'Loch Lomond', or 'The arbutus tree', or 'All through the night', with a great deal more effect than the output of our ballad manufactories. What! Did I ...
... melody. There is not a vocalist who could not learn to sing 'Barbara Allen', or 'Loch Lomond', or 'The arbutus tree', or 'All through the night', with a great deal more effect than the output of our ballad manufactories. What! Did I ...
Conteúdo
3 | |
11 | |
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 |
Outras edições - Ver todos
Termos e frases comuns
amateur appear artistic audience Bach Bach’s ballad beautiful Beethoven Brahms Cecil Sharp Cecil Sharp House choir choral chorus church classical collection collectors composer’s concert Dance and Song Dvorák Ein Heldenleben emotional England English composer English Folk Dance English folk-song English music expression Festival Folk Dance folk music fugue Gustav Holst heard Hubert Parry hymn idea imagine intentionally left blank invented Journal last movement Leith Hill listening London Lucy Broadwood Martin Shaw melody mind musical drama musicians National Music nature one’s opera orchestra original Palestrina Parry performance perhaps phrase pianoforte played popular Programme note Purcell purely Queen’s Hall Ralph Vaughan Williams Reprinted in KC rhythm romantic Scherzo sing singer solo sonata Song Society songs and dances Source strings style sung Symphony Tchaikovsky theme thing traditional true tune Vaughan Williams violin voice Wagner whole Williams’s words write