Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Permissions and Credits ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Ralph Vaughan Williams: Man and Music An Introduction 1
6. Vaughan Williams and Cambridge 13
7. Vaughan Williams and the Royal College of Music 31
8. Vaughan Williams’s “The Letter and the Spirit” (1920) 57
9. Modernist Image in Vaughan Williams’s Job 75
10. “Finest of the Fine Arts”: Vaughan Williams and Film 107
11. Pilgrim in a New-Found-Land: Vaughan Williams in America 135
12. Vaughan Williams’s Lecture on the St. Matthew Passion (1938) 161
13. Vaughan Williams’s Common Ground 173
14. Tracing a Biography: Michael Kennedy’s Correspondence Concerning The Works of Ralph Vaughan Williams 205
15. “His own idiom”: Vaughan Williams’s Violin Sonata and the Development of His Melodic Style 243
16. Critical Reception: Early Performances of the Symphony No. 9 in E Minor 255
17. Goodness and Beauty: Philosophy, History, and Ralph Vaughan Williams 273
18. Index 317
19. Notes on the Contributors 327