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This collection of essays on Vaughan Williams brings together leading British and American scholars and covers a wide range of topics and approaches, exploring musical language, cultural context, biography, manuscript sources and reception history. 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of English national identity this century, the role of rhythm in his symphonies, music for propaganda films, and his unpublished early orchestral pieces; major works such as the Tallis Fantasia and the Fifth Symphony are analysed in depth.

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Book category Books in English The arts Music Individual composers & musicians, specific bands & groups

• Full title: Vaughan Williams Studies
• Author: Alain Frogley
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 260
• EAN: 9780521480314
• ISBN: 0521480310
• ID: 02032551
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Weight: 531 g
• Dimensions: 236 × 159 × 20 mm
• Date of publishing: 12. December 1996

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