Bücher von Stephen Town

The Choral-Orchestral Works of Ralph Vaughan Williams: Autographs, Context, Discourse combines contextual knowledge, a musical commentary, an inventory of the holograph manuscripts, and a critical assessment of the opus to create substantial and meticulous examinations of Ralph Vaughan Williams'' choral-orchestral works.

The rehabilitation of British music began with Hubert Parry and Charles Villiers Stanford. The author's survey of Choral Music of the English Musical Renaissance is rooted in close examination of selected works from these composers. He aims to identify the instances of similarity and imitation, continuities and connections between the works.