List of plates, Bibliographic abbreviations and score references
Preface
1. Constructing Englishness in music: national character and the reception of Ralph Vaughan Williams Alain Frogley
2. Coming of age: the earliest orchestral music of Ralph Vaughan Williams Michael Vaillancourt
3. Vaughan Williams, Tallis and the Phantasy principle Anthony Pople
4. Vaughan Williams, Germany, and the German tradition: a view from the letters Hugh Cobbe
5. Scripture, Church, and culture: biblical texts in the works of Ralph Vaughan Williams Byron Adams
6. Vaughan Williams's folksong transcriptions: a case of idealization? Julian Onderdonk
7. Vaughan Williams and British wartime cinema Jeffrey Richards
8. Rhythm in the symphonies: a preliminary investigation Lionel Pike
9. 'Symphony in D major': models and mutations Arnold Whittall
10. The place of the Eighth among Vaughan Williams's symphonies Oliver Neighbour
Index of Vaughan Williams's works cited
Index of names.