Vaughan Williams Essays
- Author: Adams, Byron
- Editor: Wells, Robin
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Contents
- Contents: List of Vaughan Williams Fellows, 1985-2002
- Introduction, Byron Adams
- The stages of revision of Vaughan Williams' 6th Symphony, Byron Adams
- Vaughan Williams' 5th Symphony: ideology and aural tradition, Murray Dineen
- A deconstruction of William Blake's Vision: Vaughan Williams and Job, Alison Sanders McFarland
- Vaughan Williams and the 'night side of nature': octatonicism in Riders to the Sea, Walter Aaron Clark
- 'Full of fresh thoughts': Vaughan Williams, Whitman and the genesis of A Sea Symphony, Stephen Town
- Hymn tunes from folk songs: Vaughan Williams and English hymnody, Julian Onderdonk
- Robert Louis Stevenson, Ralph Vaughan Williams and their Songs of travel, Rufus Hallmark
- A critical appraisal of the Four Last Songs, Renee Cherie Clark
- 'Words and music that are forever England': The Pilgrim's Progress and the pitfalls of nostalgia, Nathaniel G. Lew
- Music, film and Vaughan Williams, Daniel Goldmark
- Vaughan Williams and the English Music Festival: 1910, Charles Edward McGuire
- Index.