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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Woodbridge :
Boydell & Brewer,
2014.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.