Letters of Ralph Vaughan Williams, 1895-1958
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| Autore: |
Cobbe Hugh
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| Titolo: |
Letters of Ralph Vaughan Williams, 1895-1958
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| Pubblicazione: | Oxford, : OUP Oxford, 2008 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (1343 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 780.92 |
| Soggetto topico: | Composers -- England -- Correspondence |
| Vaughan Williams, Ralph, 1872-1958 -- Correspondence | |
| Music | |
| Music, Dance, Drama & Film | |
| Composers | |
| Persona (resp. second.): | CobbeHugh |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 Earliest Letters (c.1895) to the Outbreak of the First World War: 1895-1914; 2 From the Beginning of the First World War until the Move to Dorking: 1914-1929; 3 From the Move to Dorking until the Outbreak of the Second World War: 1929-September 1939; 4 The Second World War: September 1939-May 1945; 5 From the Second World War to the Move Back to London: June 1945-15 September 1953 |
| 6 From the Move Back to London until VW's Death: 15 September 1953-26 August 1958List of Sources; Bibliography; Index of Works of Ralph Vaughan Williams; General Index; Footnotes; Chapter 1; Chapter 2; Chapter 3; Chapter 4; Chapter 5; Chapter 6 | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | The book comprises a selection of some 750 letters of the composer, Ralph Vaughan Williams, selected from an extant corpus of about 3,300. The letters are arranged chronologically and have been chosen to provide a cumulative pen-picture of the composer in his own words. In general the letters reflect VW's major preoccupations: musical, personal and political. It was not VW's way to discuss his inner creative processes but he does discuss his music, once it had been written: forexample there is much to illustrate the process of 'washing the face' of his major pieces before, and after, they had |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Letters of Ralph Vaughan Williams, 1895-1958 |
| ISBN: | 0-19-161526-9 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910154332803321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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