The Cambridge Companion to Vaughan Williams
- Editor: Frogley, Alain
- Editor: Thomson, Aidan J.
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Contents
- Chronology
- Introduction Alain Frogley and Aidan J. Thomson
- Part I . 'Who wants the English composer?': Forging a Path, 1890-1925:
- 1. The composer and society: family, politics, nation Julian Onderdonk
- 2. Vaughan Williams's musical apprenticeship Byron Adams
- 3. Becoming a national composer: critical reception to c.1925 Aidan J. Thomson
- Part II . Works by Genre:
- 4. History and geography: the early orchestral works and first three symphonies Alain Frogley
- 5. The songs and shorter secular choral works Sophie Fuller
- 6. 'An Englishman and a democrat': Vaughan Williams, large choral works and the English festival tradition Charles Edward McGuire
- 7. Folksong arrangements, hymn tunes, and church music Julian Onderdonk
- 8. Music for stage and film Eric Saylor
- 9. Chamber music and works for soloist with orchestra Christopher Mark
- 10. The later symphonies Julian Horton
- Part III . Activism, Reception, and Influence:
- 11. The public figure: Vaughan Williams as writer and activist David Manning
- 12. Vaughan Williams, Boult, and the BBC Jenny Doctor
- 13. Fluctuations in the response to the music of Ralph Vaughan Williams Michael Kennedy
- 14. Vaughan Williams and his successors: composers' forum Peter Maxwell Davies, Piers Hellawell, Nicola LeFanu and Anthony Payne in conversation with Aidan J. Thomson
- Select bibliography
- Index of Vaughan Williams's works.