- Title Pages
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- Abbreviations
- Chronological list of contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 The Romantic Movement and Its Results
- Chapter 2 A School of English Music
- Chapter 3 The Soporific Finale
- Chapter 4 Good Taste
- Chapter 5 A Sermon to Vocalists
- Chapter 6 Preface to <i>The English Hymnal</i>
- Chapter 7 Who Wants the English Composer?
- Chapter 8 British Music
- Chapter 9 Gervase Elwes
- Chapter 10 Introduction to <i>English Music</i>
- Chapter 11 Elizabethan Music and the Modern World
- Chapter 12 Sir Donald Tovey
- Chapter 13 A. H. Fox Strangways, AET. LXXX
- Chapter 14 Making Your Own Music
- Chapter 15 Local Musicians
- Chapter 16 The Composer in Wartime
- Chapter 17 Introduction to <i>News Chronicle Musical Competition Festival for HM Forces</i>
- Chapter 18 First Performances
- Chapter 19 Art and Organisation
- Chapter 20 Choral Singing
- Chapter 21 Carthusian Music in the Eighties
- Chapter 22 Howland Medal Lecture
- Chapter 23 Preface to <i>London Symphony</i>
- Chapter 24 Introduction to <i>The Art of Singing</i>
- Chapter 25 Some Reminiscences of the English Hymnal
- Chapter 26 Hands off the Third
- Select Bibliography of Folk Song Collections
- Index
Making Your Own Music
Making Your Own Music
- Chapter:
- (p.75) Chapter 14 Making Your Own Music
- Source:
- Vaughan Williams on Music
- Author(s):
David Manning
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
Self-made music of the forefathers would mean that they probably could not read or write, certainly could not write down music, that they had nothing to guide them but their own intuition, no one to please but themselves, only that mysterious impulse to self-expression which is latent in all if one does not deliberately stifle it. Music swells out. Two verses. That is one of the English folk-songs. Music fades out slowly. One of those tunes that the forefathers made by themselves and for themselves. One of those tunes which proves conclusively that the unmusical English are capable of creating beauty. In modern times one has come to differentiate between highly skilled professional music, which is made for the benefit of others by experts, and amateur music, which one makes to satisfy one's innate need of self expression. In a healthy musical commonwealth one wants both: the professional and the amateur.
Keywords: self-made music, self-expression, folk songs, tunes, unmusical English, professional music, amateur music
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- Title Pages
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- Abbreviations
- Chronological list of contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 The Romantic Movement and Its Results
- Chapter 2 A School of English Music
- Chapter 3 The Soporific Finale
- Chapter 4 Good Taste
- Chapter 5 A Sermon to Vocalists
- Chapter 6 Preface to <i>The English Hymnal</i>
- Chapter 7 Who Wants the English Composer?
- Chapter 8 British Music
- Chapter 9 Gervase Elwes
- Chapter 10 Introduction to <i>English Music</i>
- Chapter 11 Elizabethan Music and the Modern World
- Chapter 12 Sir Donald Tovey
- Chapter 13 A. H. Fox Strangways, AET. LXXX
- Chapter 14 Making Your Own Music
- Chapter 15 Local Musicians
- Chapter 16 The Composer in Wartime
- Chapter 17 Introduction to <i>News Chronicle Musical Competition Festival for HM Forces</i>
- Chapter 18 First Performances
- Chapter 19 Art and Organisation
- Chapter 20 Choral Singing
- Chapter 21 Carthusian Music in the Eighties
- Chapter 22 Howland Medal Lecture
- Chapter 23 Preface to <i>London Symphony</i>
- Chapter 24 Introduction to <i>The Art of Singing</i>
- Chapter 25 Some Reminiscences of the English Hymnal
- Chapter 26 Hands off the Third
- Select Bibliography of Folk Song Collections
- Index