Series page

pp i-ii

The Cambridge Companion to Vaughan Williams - Title page

pp iii-iii

Copyright page

pp iv-iv

Dedication

pp v-vi

Contents

pp vii-viii

Tables

pp ix-ix

Contributors

pp x-xii

Acknowledgements

pp xiii-xv

List of abbreviations

pp xvi-xvi

Chronology

pp xvii-xx

Introduction

pp 1-6

Part I - ‘Who wants the English composer?’: forging a path, 1890–1925

pp 7-78

1 - The composer and society: family, politics, nation

pp 9-28

2 - Vaughan Williams’s musical apprenticeship

pp 29-55

3 - Becoming a national composer: critical reception toc.1925

pp 56-78

Part II - Works by genre

pp 79-228

4 - History and geography: the early orchestral works and the first three symphonies

pp 81-105

5 - The songs and shorter secular choral works

pp 106-120

6 - ‘An Englishman and a democrat’: Vaughan Williams, large choral works, and the British festival tradition

pp 121-135

7 - Folksong arrangements, hymn tunes and church music

pp 136-156

8 - Music for stage and film

pp 157-178

9 - Chamber music and works for soloist with orchestra

pp 179-198

10 - The later symphonies

pp 199-228

Part III - Activism, reception and influence

pp 229-320

11 - The public figure: Vaughan Williams as writer and activist

pp 231-248

12 - Vaughan Williams, Boult, and the BBC

pp 249-274

13 - Fluctuations in the response to the music of Ralph Vaughan Williams

pp 275-298

14 - Vaughan Williams and his successors: composers’ forum

pp 299-320

Select bibliography

pp 321-325