Vaughan Williams And His World (The Bard Music Festival) -

University of Chicago Press, 2023. Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Paperback / softback. New. <b>A biography of Ralph Vaughan Williams, published in collaboration with the Bard Music Festival.</b><br /><br /> Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872–1958) was one of the most innovative and creative figures in twentieth-century music, whose symphonies stand alongside those of Sibelius, Nielsen, Shostakovich, and Roussel. After his death, shifting priorities in the music world led to a period of critical neglect. What could not have been foreseen is that by the second decade of the twenty-first century, a handful of Vaughan Williams’s scores would attain immense popularity worldwide. Yet the present renown of these pieces has led to misapprehension about the nature of Vaughan Williams’s cultural nationalism and a distorted view of his international cultural and musical significance.<br /><br /><i>Vaughan Williams and His World</i> traces the composer’s stylistic… Read More

University of Chicago Press, 2023. Paperback. New. 336 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.75 inches.