Vaughan Williams Studies

by Alain Frogley

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 052108864X
• ISBN13: 9780521088640
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"