Following in the footsteps: Sir Charles Villiers Stanford and his students at the Royal College of Music and their organ music in the early Twentieth Century
| Author(s) | Gage, Christopher | |
| Date Accessioned | 2010-08-06T17:34:04Z | |
| Date Available | 2010-08-06T17:34:04Z | |
| Publication Date | 2010-05 | |
| Abstract | Sir Charles Villiers Stanford trained a generation of composers during his tenure at the Royal College of Music. An accomplished conductor and composer himself, he passed his ideas of harmony, melody, and musical craftsmanship on to his students—or did he? This thesis explores the relationship between Stanford and each of three composers, Frank Bridge, Herbert Howells, and Ralph Vaughan Williams, who studied with him at the RCM. The method to study these students will be twofold: first, a look at their lives in order to find what factors other than study at the RCM might have influenced their compositional styles, and second, analysis of their organ music for elements of melody, harmony, rhythm, and form, with a particular emphasis on how individual building blocks of the music work together to form a cohesive style. Musical analysis shows that the three students exhibited a spectrum of deviation from their teacher. Bridge, the most conservative, departed the least from the ideas and teachings of Stanford, followed by Vaughan Williams and, the most different of the three, Howells. However, these composers were influenced by much more than just studying with Stanford, and, although one can make generalizations and conjectures as to their following their teacher’s ways, it is impossible to form anything conclusive because of the many personal and musical factors and influences in the composers’ lives. | en |
| Advisor | H. David Herman | |
| Program | Applied Music - Organ | |
| URL | http://udspace.udel.edu/handle/19716/5506 | |
| Publisher | University of Delaware | en |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Stanford, Charles Villiers, 1852-1924 | |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Royal College of Music (Great Britain) -- Students | |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Organ Music -- Great Britain -- 20th century -- Analysis, appreciation | |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Style, Musical | |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Bridge, Frank, 1879-1941 -- Criticism and interpretation | |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Howells, Herbert, 1892-1983 -- Criticism and interpretation | |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Vaughan Williams, Ralph, 1872-1958 -- Criticism and interpretation | |
| Title | Following in the footsteps: Sir Charles Villiers Stanford and his students at the Royal College of Music and their organ music in the early Twentieth Century | en |
| Type | Thesis | en |