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Zusatztext Vaughan Williams's Ninth Symphony significantly deepens and complicates the traditional picture of a composer now seen as increasingly important. Alain Frogley's knowledge and understanding of the composer in general and of the Ninth Symphony in particular is deeply impressive, and his book is a most welcome addition to the literature. Informationen zum Autor Lecturer in Music, Magdalen College, Oxford, 1989Lecturer in Music, Lancaster University, 1989-94Associate Professor of Music at University of Connecticut, Storrs, since 1994 Klappentext This study, the first of its kind on a work of Vaughan Williams, traces the genesis of the composer's enigmatic final symphony as documented in the surviving manuscripts. The latter reveal an underlying program based on Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles, and chart the composer's struggle to find the technical means by which to realize his most complex spiritual vision. Zusammenfassung This study, the first of its kind on a work of Vaughan Williams, traces the genesis of the composer's enigmatic final symphony as documented in the surviving manuscripts. The latter reveal an underlying programme based on Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles, and chart the composer's struggle to find the technical means by which to realize his most complex spiritual vision. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations List of Figures List of Tables List of Musical Examples Notes to the Sketch Transcriptions Abbreviations 2.: The Ninth Symphony: Context, Sources, and Working Methods 3.: First Movement 4.: Second Movement 5.: Third Movement 6.: Fourth Movement 7.: Salisbury, Hardy, and Bunyan: The Programmatic Origins of the Symphony 8.: Conclusions Appendix. Details of Structure and Other Physical Features of the Manuscripts Select Bibliography Index
