The Cambridge Companion to Vaughan Williams

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.