Vaughan Williams and His World

Byron Adams, Daniel M. Grimley

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University of Chicago Press
02 October 2023

Music reviews & criticism; Western "classical" music; Classical music (c 1750 to c 1830); Individual composers & musicians, bands & groups

Series: The Bard Music Festival

A biography of Ralph Vaughan Williams, published in collaboration with the Bard Music Festival.

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.

Vaughan Williams and His World traces the composer’s stylistic and aesthetic development in a broadly chronological fashion, reappraising Vaughan Williams’s music composed during and after the Second World War and affirming his status as an artist whose leftist political convictions pervaded his life and music. This volume reclaims Vaughan Williams’s deeply held progressive ethical and democratic convictions while celebrating his achievements as a composer.

Edited by: Byron Adams, Daniel M. Grimley
Imprint: University of Chicago Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 32mm
Weight: 513g
ISBN: 9780226830452
ISBN 10: 0226830454
Series: The Bard Music Festival
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 02 October 2023
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Byron Adams is emeritus professor of musicology at the University of California, Riverside. He is an associate editor of the Musical Quarterly and editor of the volume Vaughan Williams Essays as well as the volume Edward Elgar and His World for the Bard Music Festival series, for which he also serves as a consultant. Daniel M. Grimley is professor of music and head of humanities at the University of Oxford and a professorial fellow at Merton College. His books include Grieg: Music, Landscape, and Norwegian Identity, Carl Nielsen and the Idea of Modernism, Delius and the Sound of Place, and Jean Sibelius: Life, Music, Silence.