National music and other essays / Ralph Vaughan Williams.
By: Vaughan Williams, Ralph
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BookPublisher: New York : Clarendon Press, 1996Edition: 2nd ed.Description: xvi, 312 p. : music ; 22 cm. + pbk.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0198165935.Subject(s): Music -- History and criticism | Nationalism in musicDDC classification: 781.599092
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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 the leaders 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, and Elgar. Also included are more general reflections of the making of music, its purpose and effects, and the social foundations of music.
Includes index.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Foreword to the Second Edition (p. v)
- Preface to First Edition (p. xi)
- Acknowledgements (p. xiv)
- Nationalmusic (p. 1)
- 1 Should Music Be National? (p. 1)
- 2 Some Tentative Ideas on The Origins of Music (p. 12)
- 3 The Folk-Song (p. 21)
- 4 The Evolution the Folk-Song (p. 28)
- 5 The Evolution of the Folk-So (p. 40)
- 6 The History Nationalism In Music (p. 53)
- 7 Tradition (p. 59)
- 8 Some Conclusions (p. 62)
- 9 The Influence of Folk-Song The Music of the Church (p. 74)
- Some Thoughts Onbeethoven'schoral Symphonywith Writings On Other Musical Subjects (p. 83)
- 1 Some Thoughts On Beethoven's Choral Symphony (p. 83)
- 2 The Letter and the Spirit (p. 121)
- 3 Gustav Holst An Essay and a Note (p. 129)
- 4 Nationalism and Internationalism (p. 154)
- 5 Composing for the Films (p. 160)
- 6 A Minim's Rest (p. 166)
- 7 Bach, the Great Bourgeois (p. 170)
- 8 A Musical Autobiography (p. 177)
- 9 Charles Villiers Stanford (p. 195)
- 10 The Mass in B Minor in English A Programme Note (p. 199)
- 11 Shrubsole (p. 202)
- 1 Why Do We Make Music? (p. 205)
- The Making Ofmusic (p. 205)
- 2 What is Music? (p. 206)
- 3 How Do We Make Music? (p. 215)
- 4 When Do We Make Music? (p. 226)
- 5 What Are the Social Foundations of Music? (p. 232)
- 6 The Folk-Song Movement (p. 234)
- Epiloguemaking Your Own Music (p. 237)
- 1 Arnold Bax (1883-1953) (p. 243)
- Occasionalpieces (p. 243)
- 2 George Butterworth (1885-1916) (p. 245)
- 3 What Have We Learnt From Elgar?(a Contribution to an Elgar Memorial Issue of Music & Letters in 1935) (p. 248)
- 4 Ivor Gurney (1890-1937) (p. 256)
- 5 Ernest Irving (1878-1953) (p. 258)
- 6 Sibelius (1865-1957)(a Tribute Written on the Occasion Of His Ninetieth Birthday) (p. 261)
- 7 Henry Wood (1869-1944)(a Tribute for the Conductor's Jubilee in 1938) (p. 265)
- 8 The Leith Hill Festival (reminiscences of Fifty Years) (p. 271)
- 9 Conducting (entry in Grove's Dictionary of Music And Musicians, Second Edition) (p. 276)
- 10 Fugue (entry in Grove's Dictionary of Music And Musicians, Second Edition) (p. 286)
- 11 Harpsichord or Piano?(a Word to Purists) (p. 303)
- Index (p. 305)