Edited by Steve Roud and David Atkinson
ISBN 978-1-9161424-6-6
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A selection of essays celebrating Ralph Vaughan Williams’ lifelong involvement with British folk song and music, as collector, editor, arranger, and composer. Many of them were first presented at the EFDSS’ conference 2022.
Book Contents
- Introduction: Vaughan Williams and Folk Song; Julian Onderdonk
- The Aunt, the Neighbour, and the Wife: How Personal Relationships Shaped Vaughan Williams as a Folk Song Collector; Caroline Davison
- ‘All Things Were Quite Silent‘; Malcolm Barr-Hamilton
- A Legacy of Song: Vaughan Williams in the West, 1902; Martin Graebe
- Vaughan Williams in the Rotherham Area, 1907; Paul Davenport
- Ralph Vaughan Williams and Leoš Janáček as Folk Song Collectors; Jiří Čevela
- The Vaughan Williams Folk Dance Recordings of 1930 ; Sean Goddard and Chris Jewell
- The Vaughan Williams Folk Song Arrangements; John Francis
- Beyond ‘Rhosymedre’: Vaughan Williams’s Welsh Folk Song Arrangements for the Gregynog Choir; Rhian Davies
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