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Vaughan Williams on Music.(Book review)
Vaughan Williams on Music. Edited by David Manning. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. [xix, 435 p. ISBN-13: 978015182392. $35.] Music examples, bibliographical references, index.
Reading the prose writings of major composers is always a dangerous business. While such writings undoubtedly illuminate aspects of a creative mind by filling in biographical details or fleshing out personal beliefs, the temptation to extrapolate from the writings to the musical works themselves is difficult to resist. The results, all too frequently, are misconceptions and half-truths about specific works, even about composers' styles as a whole. Thus the emotional outpourings of ...
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