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A Norfolk Rhapsody: Ralph Vaughan Williams in King's Lynn

Elizabeth James

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In early 1905, thirteen months into his enthusiastic collecting of folk songs, Ralph Vaughan Williams came to West Norfolk expressly to hear the community’s traditional songs and note them down from the singers. He was uniquely well qualified to do so both by training, temperament and character. What he heard excited and inspired him. Through his work, we can still hear the songs of a lost fishing community and their contemporaries. With their songs he created music which speaks to audiences across the world. Musicologists tend to skim over the week that Vaughan Williams spent in King’s Lynn. It was, however, a week he never forgot recalling it clearly when he returned to the town nearly half a century later. He said ‘I reaped a rich harvest’ when he came to Lynn. In this book, authors, Jill Bennett and Elizabeth James retrace his steps, find out more about the people he met, and explore how his music became infused with the melodies and ideas he heard in the yards, workhouse and the pubs of old King’s Lynn. For the first time it reveals the true extend of the rich, and rapidly vanishing, heritage that Vaughan Williams uncovered.

Language: English

Pages: 262

Format: Paperback

Release: October 05, 2022

ISBN 13: 9781909796942

A Norfolk Rhapsody: Ralph Vaughan Williams in King's Lynn

Elizabeth James

0/5 ( ratings)

In early 1905, thirteen months into his enthusiastic collecting of folk songs, Ralph Vaughan Williams came to West Norfolk expressly to hear the community’s traditional songs and note them down from the singers. He was uniquely well qualified to do so both by training, temperament and character. What he heard excited and inspired him. Through his work, we can still hear the songs of a lost fishing community and their contemporaries. With their songs he created music which speaks to audiences across the world. Musicologists tend to skim over the week that Vaughan Williams spent in King’s Lynn. It was, however, a week he never forgot recalling it clearly when he returned to the town nearly half a century later. He said ‘I reaped a rich harvest’ when he came to Lynn. In this book, authors, Jill Bennett and Elizabeth James retrace his steps, find out more about the people he met, and explore how his music became infused with the melodies and ideas he heard in the yards, workhouse and the pubs of old King’s Lynn. For the first time it reveals the true extend of the rich, and rapidly vanishing, heritage that Vaughan Williams uncovered.

Language: English

Pages: 262

Format: Paperback

Release: October 05, 2022

ISBN 13: 9781909796942

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