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“Blaspheming Beethoven?”: The Altered Bach Motive In Vaughan Williams’S Fourth Symphony, Ryan M. Ross
“Blaspheming Beethoven?”: The Altered Bach Motive In Vaughan Williams’S Fourth Symphony, Ryan M. Ross
College of Education Publications and Scholarship
Vaughan Williams’s Fourth Symphony (1934) has elicited much discussion regarding its aesthetic nature and sources of inspiration. Early critics associated the work’s dissonances with a concession to continental European musical modernism, or with a depiction of the political tensions of 1930s Europe. More recent commentaries have noted its references to Beethoven, one of which the composer admitted to in print. These commentators have argued either that these references constitute a continuation of the Beethovenian tradition in the twentieth century, or that they present a critique of the German composer. This essay adds a new argument in favor of the latter …
"There, In The Fastness Of Rural England": Vaughan Williams, Folk Song And George Borrow’S 'Lavengro', Ryan M. Ross
"There, In The Fastness Of Rural England": Vaughan Williams, Folk Song And George Borrow’S 'Lavengro', Ryan M. Ross
College of Education Publications and Scholarship
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Nielsen's Arcadia: The Case Of The Flute Concerto, Ryan M. Ross
Nielsen's Arcadia: The Case Of The Flute Concerto, Ryan M. Ross
College of Education Publications and Scholarship
In this essay I suggest that there are distinct patterns pertaining to the Flute Concerto involving the idea of ‘Arcadia’ as it contrasts an idyllic past with a troubled present. In my analysis, I argue that his positioning of simple themes with relation to their surroundings in the concerto’s two movements suggests a process-driven search for an Arcadian ideal. As such, and far from simply being merely an interesting work with several beautiful moments, the concerto is an important access point both for further understanding Nielsen’s creative approach to form and his late-period preoccupation with the idea of simplicity