Vaughan Williams's Ninth Symphony

by Alain Frogley

Overview

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 program 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198162841
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	10/18/2001
Series:	Studies In Musical Genesis, Structure, and Interpretation
Pages:	340
Product dimensions:	9.21(w) x 6.14(h) x 0.81(d)

About the Author

University of Connecticut, Storrs

Editorial Reviews

"Alain Frogley's book is a landmark contribution to a steadily growing field of research into Vaughan Williams...[the book] is the result of more than fifteen years of meticulous and imaginative research that has come together to form an extended, highly organized study full of immense and telling detail. ...a most welcome addition to the literature."—Music and Letters

"[M]agisterial study...[R]igorous, nuanced, and ultimately enlightening."—Journal of Musicological Research

"This book is the result of an extended period of reflection, and represents a heroic labor of love and scholarship....He meditates brilliantly upon inner narrative of the symphony."—Journal of the RVW Society, February 2002

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