University/Organization:
Northwest Missouri State University
Title I
Ralph Vaughan Williams’s Thanksgiving for Victory: An Artifact of the British Empire
Synopsis
This paper presentation will discuss the compositional idiom Vaughan Williams used in this work; its musical components and design; and the texts and subtext of the work.
Title II
Nebuchadnezzar by George Dyson and the Influence of Parry, Stanford, and Walton
Synopsis
This paper presentation will discuss Dyson’s Nebuchadnezzar vis-à-vis the works of Parry, Stanford, and Walton, identifying the instances of similarity and imitation, continuities and connections among them.