Five Mystical Songs
Author : Ralph Vaughan Williams
Publisher :
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 31,97 MB
Release : 1911
Category : Sacred songs (Medium voice) with piano
ISBN :
Author : Ralph Vaughan Williams
Publisher :
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 31,97 MB
Release : 1911
Category : Sacred songs (Medium voice) with piano
ISBN :
Author : Ralph Vaughan Williams
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 36,28 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Music
ISBN :
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 : Ralph Vaughan Williams
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,43 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780198165934
Ralph Vaughan Williams is one of the greatest English composers. He studied under such teachers as Parry, Charles Wood, and Alan Gray, and later in Germany with Max Bruch and in France with Ravel, developing a strongly individual style that marked him out, with Holst and others, as one of theleaders of the twentieth-century revival of English music. He never hesitated to express his views in plain, vigorous prose, and he became well-known for his essays which combine typical common sense with a true composer's sensitivity. This collection contains all his writings that he thought worth preserving in book form. The themes and subjects discussed in these essays reflect his wide range of interests and cover such topics as nationalism in music, the evolution of folk-song, and the origins of music, as well as pieces on individual composers such as Beethoven, Gustav Holst, Bach, Sibelius, Arnold Bax, andElgar. Also included are more general reflections of the making of music, its purpose and effects, and the social foundations of music.
Author : Ralph Vaughan Williams
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 17,72 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN :
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.
Author : Lionel Pike
Publisher :
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 34,93 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Vaughan Williams' nine symphonies are among the finest pieces of music written in the twentieth century, each one revealing new aspects of Vaughan Williams' formidable creative personality. But for many years these works were undervalued by imperceptive critics - and Vaughan Williams did himself no favours by joking, with misplaced humility, about what he felt was his own lack of expertise. Lionel Pike's penetrating analysis of all nine works reveals the hidden complexities that lie below the surface. He argues that RVW' has been consistently denied his rightful place in twentieth-century music and in the history of the symphony, and that close investigation can uncover elements of construction that show the mind of a genius at work. LIONEL PIKE is Senior Lecturer in Music at Royal Holloway (University of London), and has been organist of the college chapel since 1969. For four years he was Dean of the Faculty of Music in the University of London. He was a chorister and assistant organist at Bristol Cathedral, and at the University of Oxford he was organ scholar of Pembroke College.
Author : Alain Frogley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 45,5 MB
Release : 2013-11-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0521197686
A comprehensive reassessment of this towering figure of twentieth-century music, examining works, cultural context and reception in Britain and beyond.
Author : Ralph Vaughan Williams
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 27,85 MB
Release : 2009-04-02
Category : History
ISBN : 0141190922
This collection is filled with songs that tell of the pleasures and pains of love, the patterns of the countryside and the lives of ordinary people. Here are unfaithful soldiers, ghostly lovers, whalers on stormy seas, cuckolds and tricksters. By turns funny, plain-speaking and melancholic, these songs evoke a lost world and, with their melodies provided, record a vital musical tradition. Generations of inhabitants have helped shape the English countryside � but it has profoundly shaped us too.It has provoked a huge variety of responses from artists, writers, musicians and people who live and work on the land � as well as those who are travelling through it.English Journeys celebrates this long tradition with a series of twenty books on all aspects of the countryside, from stargazey pie and country churches, to man�s relationship with nature and songs celebrating the patterns of the countryside (as well as ghosts and love-struck soldiers).
Author : Simon Heffer
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 11,70 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781555534721
A concise biography of the first truly English composer of the twentieth century.
Author : Jon C. Mitchell
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 48,81 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781574630985
(Meredith Music Resource). This exciting work, by one of today's most highly regarded music scholars, brings new light to the more than two dozen works by Ralph Vaughan Williams for military band, brass band and wind ensemble. Vaughan Williams' unique relationship with fellow composer Gustav Holst is examined as well as his relationships with personnel at the Royal Military School of Music, the BBC and the Salvation Army. There's much more in this hard-to-put-down volume for conductors, performers, students and aficionados! "...the contributions of Jon Mitchell have become a cornerstone of serious scholarship in our field. ...a welcome insight into the life and works of Vaughan Williams. Contained within are valuable insights into the world of Vaughan Williams that, for the majority of us, will be an undiscovered country." Craig Kirchhoff Professor of Music/Director of Bands University of Minnesota (a href="http://youtu.be/8U3fN1SPXVE" target="_blank")Click here for a YouTube video on Ralph Vaughan Williams' Wind Works(/a)
Author : James Day
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 18,24 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Revised and expanded, this book considers recent work on the life and music of this leading English composer Day presents Vaughan Williams as a part of the great post-Romantic reactionary movement in the company of composers such as Debussy and Stravinsky. The author also demonstrates that the circumstances of Vaughan William's life are reflected in his wide-ranging, powerful, and intense music.