San Antonio College Library

"This is one of the first estimates of Vaughan Williams since his lamented death at the age of eighty-six, while still at the height of his musical powers. The deep roots of British musical tradition, stretching back in time through the great work of Purcell, Byrd, Tallis, Gibbons and many others to the masters of the early polyphony, are very evident in the work of Vaughan Williams, who was also a progressive composer in the modern idiom. He was...

Studies the social, cultural, and political spheres that affected the lives and works of approximately 50 composers.