Vaughan Williams in Context

342 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

• Themen: Kunst Musik Stile und Gattungen Orchester und formale Musik
• ISBN: 9781108493321
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 04.04.2024
• Größe: 233 x 160 mm
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Herausgegeben von: Ceri Owen, Julian Onderdonk