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Edited by Byron Adams and Robin Wells. Aldershot, Hants, Eng.: Ashgate, 2003. [xxii, 280 p. 1-85928-387-X. $84.95.] Music examples, illustrations, bibliography, index.
The eleven contributors to this volume of essays have all been Ralph Vaughan Williams Fellows. Funded by the Carthusian Trust (attached to the composer's old school, Charterhouse), these scholars were able to travel from their home institutions in North America to spend time researching in the United Kingdom. The main methodologies employed in this collection are studies of the compositional process and criticism.
Various facets of the compositional process are considered, including close reading of sketches and investigation of the assembly of texts. Three writers examine sketches for the symphonies. Byron Adams's study of the Sixth Symphony joins the compositional process at a late stage, detailing, for example, how a saxophone solo in the Scherzo is revised from a "blandly modal and rhythmically square" original (p. 11) into the syncopated, chromatic final version. While the first and third movements received a number of revisions of a similar scope, the second movement was only slightly changed, and the Epilogue virtually untouched in the extant sources. While Adams's investigation deals with a relatively small...
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