Vaughan Williams Studies (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521088640)

Despite Vaughan Williams' seminal importance in British music, international stature as a symphonist, and wider significance as an icon of Englishness, very little new research on his life or music has been published since the mid-1960s. The ten essays presented here examine diverse subjects such as the place of Vaughan Williams in the construction of English national identity in this century, the role of rhythm in his symphonies, music for propaganda films, and his unpublished early orchestral pieces; major works such as the Tallis Fantasia and the Fifth Symphony are analyzed in depth.

Author: Alain Frogley
ISBN-10: 052108864X
ISBN-13: 9780521088640
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 10/30/2008
Pages: 260
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.81lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.55d