Lindskog, Annika;
(2024)
‘Behold the sea!’ The geo-cultural place of landscape in Vaughan Williams’ A Sea Symphony.
Landscape History
, 45
(1)
pp. 33-56.
10.1080/01433768.2024.2339058.
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Abstract
The article examines Ralph Vaughan Williams’ first symphony, ‘A Sea Symphony’, from 1912, in the context of the British contemporary relationship to the sea as of defining national importance. It specifically looks for ways in which the symphony engages with narratives around the sea as a national landscape and a nationally defining geography. The article’s aim is to situate the symphonic output and text in a nationally embedded, articulated and traceable discourse around the seascape, and interrogate the ways in which it relates to and contributes to such discourse. It finds that the music resonates against historical, cultural and political engagements with the seascape, and puts forward ways in which these engagements can be heard through textures, expression and sonorities, as well as being seen in inspirations and interpretations of the relational sea-scape and its geographical situatedness.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | ‘Behold the sea!’ The geo-cultural place of landscape in Vaughan Williams’ A Sea Symphony |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1080/01433768.2024.2339058 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1080/01433768.2024.2339058 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2024 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent. |
| Keywords: | Sea, Vaughan Williams, A Sea Symphony, Britain, early twentieth century, geography, landscape |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities > SELCS |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10198013 |
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