UID:
almafu_9959245253602883
Format:
1 online resource (1343 p.)
ISBN:
0-19-161526-9
Content:
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
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Description based upon print version of record.
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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
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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
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-19-958764-7
Language:
English
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