Masques, Mayings and Music-Dramas Vaughan Williams and the Early Twentieth-Century Stage Savage, Roger. creator Ebook Library text bibliography Electronic books. enk 2014 monographic eng remote 1 online resource (404 pages) 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 visions of an English musical tradition. But the reach of the book is much wider, shedding new light on English Wagnerism (at Glastonbury especially) and on the reception of Wagner's ideas as a point of emulation and resistance. No less significant is the discussion of Purcell and the seventeenth-century masque - one of the primary sources for re-imagining an English dramatic tradition - and the more familiar images of the May festival, the Mummers' play and the pageant play, which are tellingly re-contextualised. The book also looks at the associations between Vaughan Williams, the theatre artist Edward Gordon Craig and the impresario Serge Diaghilev. The sequence is framed by the image of the pilgrim-vagabond Vaughan Williams's setting of the poetry of Matthew Arnold and Robert Louis Stevenson as a metaphor and paradigm for his creative career and personal progress. The book not only sheds light on 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: one especially concerned with calling on aspects of the past to help to secure a worthwhile future. Notions of Englishness turn out to be less insular than sometimes thought and the idea of a 'musical renaissance' more complex when the case-studies are understood in their proper historical context. Scholars and students of twentieth-century English music, theatre and opera will find this volume indispensable. Roger Savage isHonorary Fellow in English Literature at the University of Edinburgh. He has published widely on theatre and its interface with music from the baroque to the twentieth century in leading journals and books. Frontcover; Contents; Illustrations; Musical Examples; Preface with Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; 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 PsycheAlice 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; Masquing: A Reconstructed Scenario for Pan's Anniversary, 1905; Roots: Vaughan Williams, Virginia Woolf and Dodgson Hamilton Madden; Maying: Tunes for the May Day Scene, Crystal Palace 1911; Select Bibliography; Index of names; Index of topics. Roger Savage. Electronic resource. e-uk--- Musical theater Great Britain 20th century Vaughan Williams, Ralph 1872-1958 MUSIC Instruction & Study Voice MUSIC Lyrics MUSIC Printed Music Vocal MUSIC Genres & Styles Classical Vaughan Williams, Ralph 1872-1958 Musical theater Great Britain Vaughan Williams, Ralph 1872-1958 1900 - 1999 fast ML1731.5 .S384 2014eb 782.140941 Masques, Mayings and Music-Dramas : Vaughan Williams and the Early Twentieth-Century Stage Savage, Roger. Woodbridge : Boydell & Brewer, ©2014 9781782043669 1782043667 22573/ctt6nvw5m JSTOR https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/tamucs/detail.action?docID=1686900 EBLCP 140607 20250816210305.1 in00003526420 eng