Masques, mayings and music-dramas : Vaughan Williams and the early twentieth-century stage /

Masques, Mayings and Music-Dramas comprises a sequence of in-depth case-studies of significant aspects of early twentieth-century English music-theatre. Vaughan Williams forms a central thread in this discussion, and Stratford-upon-Avon serves as a geographical focus-point for mediating conflicting...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Savage, Roger, 1935- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2014
Sujets:
Vaughan Williams, Ralph, > 1872-1958.
Vaughan Williams, Ralph, > 1872-1958
1900-1999
Musical theater > Great Britain > 20th century.
Théâtre musical > Grande-Bretagne > 20e siècle.
MUSIC > Instruction & Study > Voice.
MUSIC > Lyrics.
MUSIC > Printed Music > Vocal.
MUSIC > Genres & Styles > Classical.
Musical theater
Great Britain
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Books to make a traveller of thee: pilgrims, vagabonds and the monodramas of Vaughan Williams
  • A quarry for profitable working: staging the masques of Ben Jonson in London and Stratford-upon-Avon, 1903-1912
  • The edens of Reginald Buckley: temples and tetralogies at Bayreuth, Stratford and Glastonbury
  • 'One of the greatest composers' the world has ever seen': Vaughan Williams and the Purcell Revival
  • 'What about an English ballet?' Edward Gordon Craig, music-theatre and Cupid and Psyche
  • Alice Shortcake, Jenny Pluckpears and the Stratford-Upon-Avon connections of Sir John in Love
  • Bringing in the May: Alice Gomme, Cecil Sharp and Ralph Vaughan Williams at the Crystal Palace
  • Vaughan Williams, the Romany Ryes and the Cambridge ritualists

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