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Vaughan Williams in Context

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Editors:
Julian Onderdonk, West Chester University, Pennsylvania
Ceri Owen, University of Birmingham

Ceri Owen, Julian Onderdonk, Alain Frogley, David Manning, Hugh Cobbe, Erica Siegel, Roger Savage, Karen Arrandale, Jeremy Dibble, Benedict Taylor, Jonathan Clinch, Daniel M. Grimley, J. P. E. Harper-Scott, Sarah Collins, Georgina Boyes, Katie Palmer Heathman, Alexander Hutton, Paul Readman, Deborah Heckert, Eric Saylor, Matthew Ingleby, Tim Barringer, Rishona Zimring, Peter Franklin, David C. H. Wright, Simon McVeigh, Andrew Pinnock, Heather Wiebe, Duncan Hinnells, Allan W. Atlas, Aidan J. Thomson, Ryan Ross

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Date Published: April 2024
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format: Hardback
isbn: 9781108493321

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Challenging residual doubts about Vaughan Williams's role and significance within twentieth-century music and culture, this book places and explores his life and music in their broad musical, cultural, social, and political contexts. Chapters by scholars from a range of disciplines re-evaluate the composer's life and career within a world marked by both rapid change and refigured traditions. Building on scholarship that has established Vaughan Williams as aesthetically and politically progressive, the book furthers a revisionist perspective by broadening understandings of the nature of his responses to the twentieth century. This portrait of a modern composer emerges not merely by focusing on under-represented interests and pursuits, but also by contextualizing those activities that have been misrepresented as conservative or backward-looking.
- Explores Vaughan Williams's life and music in its broad musical, cultural, social, and political contexts
- Advances revisionist perspectives to re-evaluate a composer whose work has been subject to simplification and distortion
- Builds on the latest scholarship and mines new archival materials, bringing to light important new topics and research finding
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- Date Published: April 2024
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781108493321
- length: 342 pages
- dimensions: 235 x 157 x 23 mm
- weight: 0.64kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Introduction Ceri Owen and Julian Onderdonk
Part I. Biography, People, Places:
1. London and the modern City Alain Frogley
2. Personality David Manning
3. Correspondents Hugh Cobbe
4. Women Erica Siegel
5. Friends outside music Roger Savage
6.Cambridge Karen Arrandale
Part II. Inspiration and Expression:
7. Early development Jeremy Dibble
8. Romanticism Benedict Taylor
9. Amateur music and musicians Julian Onderdonk
10. Performance Jonathan Clinch
11. Modalities of landscape Daniel M. Grimley
Part III. Culture and Society:
12. Politics J. P. E. Harper-Scott
13. Liberalism and landscape Sarah Collins
14. The English folk revival Georgina Boyes
15. Christian socialism and the English hymnal Katie Palmer Heathman
16. Pageantry Alexander Hutton and Paul Readman
17. History and the spirit of revivalism Deborah Heckert
18. War Eric Saylor
Part IV. Arts:
19. Literature Matthew Ingleby and Ceri Owen
20. Visual art Tim Barringer
21. Theatre, 1895–1914 Roger Savage
22. Dance Rishona Zimring
23. Film Peter Franklin
Part V. Institutions:
24. 'Wanting' the home-grown composer: opportunities and encouragement after the First World War David C. H. Wright
25. Concert life and programming Simon McVeigh
26. The arts council and evolving public policy Andrew Pinnock and Julian Onderdonk
27. The Second World War: a national figure Heather Wiebe
28. Working with the BBC Duncan Hinnells
Part VI. Reception:
29. Reception outside England, 1901–1914 Allan W. Atlas
30. Interwar continental reception Aidan J. Thomson
31. Early recordings Ryan Ross
32. Reception in the USA: a special relationship Alain Frogley.
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Editors
Julian Onderdonk, West Chester University, Pennsylvania
Julian Onderdonk is a Professor of Music History at West Chester University of Pennsylvania. He has published on Vaughan Williams's folk-song collecting, hymn-tune editing, and political beliefs in various journals and book collections, including Folk Music Journal and The Cambridge Companion to Vaughan Williams (2013).
Ceri Owen, University of Birmingham
Ceri Owen is Lecturer in Performance and Director of Performance at the Department of Music, University of Birmingham. She has published articles on Vaughan Williams in leading journals, following the completion of a DPhil on the composer's work at the University of Oxford.
Contributors
Ceri Owen, Julian Onderdonk, Alain Frogley, David Manning, Hugh Cobbe, Erica Siegel, Roger Savage, Karen Arrandale, Jeremy Dibble, Benedict Taylor, Jonathan Clinch, Daniel M. Grimley, J. P. E. Harper-Scott, Sarah Collins, Georgina Boyes, Katie Palmer Heathman, Alexander Hutton, Paul Readman, Deborah Heckert, Eric Saylor, Matthew Ingleby, Tim Barringer, Rishona Zimring, Peter Franklin, David C. H. Wright, Simon McVeigh, Andrew Pinnock, Heather Wiebe, Duncan Hinnells, Allan W. Atlas, Aidan J. Thomson, Ryan Ross