Roger Savage

Masques, Mayings and Music-Dramas

Vaughan Williams and the Early Twentieth-Century Stage

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Produktbeschreibung

Vaughan Williams forms a central thread in this discussion, and Stratford-upon-Avon serves as a geographic focal point for mediating conflicting visions of an English musical tradition. But the reach of this book is much wider, shedding new light on English Wagnerism, Purcell and the seventeenth-century masque, and the May festival, Mummers' play and pageant play, among others. This book not only illustrates the activities and ambitions of principal agents but also illuminates a particularly dynamic moment in the re-emergence of a distinctively English music-theatrical practice.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Boydell Press
• Seitenzahl: 410
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Juni 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 778g
• ISBN-13: 9781843839194
• ISBN-10: 1843839199
• Artikelnr.: 40045853

Autorenporträt

Roger Savage

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 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 Appendices