Vaughan Williams's Ninth Symphony
Series: Studies in Musical Genesis, Structure & Interpretation;
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 2 August 2001
- ISBN 9780198162841
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages340 pages
- Size 242x162x23 mm
- Weight 723 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 8 figures, 6 tables, 10 illustrations, 108 music examples 0
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Short description:
This study, the first of its kind on a work of Vaughan Williams, traces the genesis of the composer's enigmatic final symphony as documented in the surviving manuscripts. The latter reveal an underlying programme based on Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles, and chart the composer's struggle to find the technical means by which to realize his most complex spiritual vision.
MoreLong description:
Ever since its première just before the composer's death, Vaughan Williams's Ninth Symphony has divided critical opinion and remained something of an enigma. Yet the composer thought highly of the work, and went against his usual practice by preserving all the sketches. This study, the first of its kind on a work of Vaughan Williams, analyses the symphony and traces its genesis through hundreds of pages of sketches and drafts; it also offers a general introduction to the composer's working methods. The manuscripts show how the composer worked meticulously to create the complex expressive ambivalence of the finished work, transforming in the process simpler conceptions redolent of his earlier music. Most crucially, however, the sketches reveal an underlying programme, centred on the theme of innocent sacrifice and drawing on Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Stonehenge, and Salisbury Cathedral. Vaughan Williams's new musical path in the symphony, it emerges, was closely allied to the continuing evolution of his visionary agnosticism.
Alain Frogley's magisterial study of Vaughan Williams's Ninth Symphony is a refreshing addition to this distinguished series ... rigorous, nuanced, and ultimately enlightening.
Table of Contents:
List of Illustrations
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Musical Examples
Notes to the Sketch Transcriptions
Introduction
The Ninth Symphony: Context, Sources, and Working Methods
First Movement
Second Movement
Third Movement
Fourth Movement
Salisbury, Hardy, and Bunyan: The Programmatic Origins of the Symphony
Conclusions
Appendix. Details of Structure and Other Physical Features of the Manuscripts
Select Bibliography
Index
