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Article: Vaughan Williams Studies.
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Edited by Alain Frogley. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. [xvii, 241 p. ISBN 0-521-48031-0. $59.95.]
Assessing the contribution of Ralph Vaughan Williams to British music has never been simple. At his death in 1958, his reputation maintained a precarious, not to say paradoxical, balance between elevation to a national icon by those who saw his music as a bulwark against European modernism and rejection by a younger generation whose self-appointed task was to tear the bulwark down. It was the latter response that quickly gained the upper hand. In the oppressive, all-or-nothing atmosphere of the 1960s and early 1970s, Vaughan Williams came to represent ...