Index of Vaughan Williamsls Works

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chamber and solo instrumental works Blue Bird, The (incidental music), 169 Nocturne and Scherzo, 180–1 Bridal Day, The (masque), 165, 264, 283 Phantasy Quintet, 182–5, 276 Christmas Night, On (masque), 163, 277 Piano Quintet in C minor, 180–1, 196, 307 Death of Tintagiles, The (incidental Quintet in D major, 180 music), 169 Reminiscences of a Walk at Frankham,11 Devil’s Disciple, The (incidental music), 169 String Quartet in C minor, 37 Electra (incidental music), 168 String Quartet No. 1 in G minor, 40–1, 47, 63, England’s Pleasant Land (pageant), 166 179, 181–2, 276 First Nowell, The, 145, 163 String Quartet No. 2 in A minor, 182, 194–5, Henry IV Part 2 (incidental music), 168 263, 284 Henry V (incidental music), 168 Violin Sonata in A minor, 30, 179, 195–6 Hugh the Drover, 71, 157–9, 161, 167, 168, church music 250, 262, 276, 317 Benedictus and Agnus Dei, 153 Iphegenia in Tauris (incidental music), 168 Cambridge Mass, A, 297 Job: A Masque for Dancing, 2, 31, 50, D minor Communion Service. See Services in 157, 160, 162, 163–5, 253, 257, D minor 258, 259, 265, 281, 288, 304, D minor Morning Service. See Services in 311, 319 D minor London Pageant, 166 ‘Lord, Thou Hast Been Our Refuge’, 151, 152, Masque of Charterhouse, Solemn Music for 153, 154 the, 163 Magniﬁcat and Nunc Dimittis (‘The Village Mayor of Casterbridge, The (incidental music Service’), 151 for radio play), 169, 262 Mass in G minor, 58, 72, 74, 153, Merry Wives of Windsor, The (incidental 154–5, 257 music), 168 ‘O Clap Your Hands’, 152, 154 Much Ado About Nothing (incidental music), ‘O How Amiable’, 151, 166 169 ‘O Praise the Lord of Heaven’, 151, 154 Old King Cole (ballet), 162–3, 277 O Taste and See, 151, 288 Pan’s Anniversary, 162 ‘O Vos Omnes’, 74, 152, 153, 154 Pilgrim’s Progress, The (morality), 2, 160, 174, ‘Prayer to the Father of Heaven’, 152, 211, 263, 284, 288, 290, 292, 153, 154 297, 317 Psalm 67, Chant for, 151 Pilgrim’s Progress, The (1906), 171–2 Services in D minor, 151, 152, 154 Pilgrim’s Progress, The (incidental music for ‘Souls of the Righteous, The’, 151, 154 radio play), 169, 173, 259 Te Deum and Benedictus, 151, 152 Poisoned Kiss, The, 2, 161, 167, 258, 297, 304 Te Deum in G, 151, 152, 154 Richard II (incidental music for radio play), ‘Vision of Aeroplanes, A’, 153, 154 169, 173 ‘Voice out of the Whirlwind, The’, 153 Richard II (incidental music), 168 dramatic works Richard III (incidental music), 168 Abinger Pageant, 165–6; ‘O How Amiable’, Riders to the Sea,2,5,50–1, 159–60, 280, 286, 151, 166 292, 303, 304, 314 Bacchae, The (incidental music), 168 Romeo and Juliet (incidental music), 169 [326]

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Shepherds of the Delectable Mountains, The, ‘Mannin Veen’, 142 172–3, 174, 256, 259; See also Pilgrim’s Nine English Folk Songs from the Southern Progress, The Appalachian Mountains, 145 Sir John in Love, 2, 159–60, 296, 304, ‘On Board a 98’,89 312, 317 ‘Our Captain Calls’, 145, 233 Twelfth Night (incidental music), 169 ‘Ploughboy’s Dream, The’, 145 Wasps, The (incidental music), 2, 90, 157, ‘Ploughman, The’, 141 167–8, 276 ‘Saucy Bold Robber, The’,89 ﬁlm music Six English Folk-Songs, 145 49th Parallel, 170, 194, 283 ‘Ploughman, The’, 145 Bitter Springs, 170 ‘Turtle Dove, The’, 141 Coastal Command, 170 ‘Ward the Pirate’,89 Dim Little Island, 170 ‘Winter Is Gone, The’, 141 England of Elizabeth, The, 170 ‘Young Henry the Poacher’,89 Flemish Farm, The, 170, 285 hymn tunes and carols Loves of Joanna Godden, The, 170, 292 ‘Airmen’s Hymn, The’, 287 People’s Land, The, 170 ‘Call to the Free Nations, A’, 287 Scott of the Antarctic, 170, 200, 214–16, 292–3, ‘Down Ampney’, 146, 148 317 Eight Traditional English Carols, 144 Stricken Peninsula, 170 English Hymnal, The, 11, 58, 59, 90, 149, 233, Vision of William Blake, The, 170 250, 276, 304, 312–13 folksong arrangements ‘Forest Green’, 145 ‘Acre of Land, An’, 142 Hereford Carol, The, 234 ‘Alister McAlpine’s Lament’, 142 ‘Kings Lynn’, 149 ‘All on Spurn Point’,89 ‘King’s Weston’, 149 ‘Bold Young Farmer, A’, 162 ‘Kingsfold’, 145, 149 ‘Bold Young Sailor, A’,89 ‘Magda’, 148 ‘Bushes and Briars’, 62, 141, 142, ‘Mantegna’, 149 232, 241 ‘Monks Gate’, 172, 173 ‘Ca’ the Yowes’, 142 Nine Carols for Male Voices, 141 ‘Captain’s Apprentice, The’,89 ‘Oakley’, 149 ‘Dives and Lazarus’, 141, 145 Oxford Book of Carols, The (ed. with Martin ‘Farmer’s Boy, The’, 141 Shaw), 280 ‘Farmer’s Son So Sweet, A’, 141 ‘Salve Festa Dies’, 146, 148 Five English Folk Songs, 142 ‘Sine Nomine’, 146, 148, 150, 162 ‘Dark-Eyed Sailor, The’, 142 Songs of Praise (ed. with Martin Shaw), 145, ‘Just as the Tide Was Flowing’, 142 147, 149, 280 ‘Lover’s Ghost, The’, 142 Sussex Carol, The, 234 ‘Spring Time of the Year, The’, 142 Twelve Traditional Carols from Folk Songs for Schools, 140 Herefordshire, 144 ‘I Will Give My Love An Apple’, 140 orchestral works Folk Songs from Newfoundland, 144 49th Parallel (suite), 258 Folk Songs from Sussex, 143–4 Boldre Wood (No. 2 of Two Impressions for ‘Come All You Worthy Christians’, 143 Orchestra), 87 ‘Low Down in the Broom’, 143 Bucolic Suite, 84, 85, 86, 297 ‘O Who Is That That Raps at My Burley Heath, 86, 87 Window’, 143 Concerto Grosso for strings, 238, 289 ‘Seeds of Love, The’, 143 English Folk Songs (suite for military Folk Songs from the Eastern Counties, 143 band), 138 ‘As I Walked Out’, 143 Fantasia for Pianoforte and Orchestra, 84 ‘Lincolnshire Farmer, The’, 143 Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis,3, ‘Lost Lady Found, The’, 143 58, 60, 64–5, 68, 74, 87, 90–2, 144, ‘Saucy Bold Robber, The’, 143 154, 173, 182, 183, 185, 212, 253, ‘Tarry Trowsers’, 143 276, 281, 287, 290, 296, 300, 301, ‘Go And List For A Sailor’, 162 303, 306–7, 308, 309–10, 313, ‘Jolly Ploughboy, The’, 141 315, 317 ‘Jolly Thresherman, The’, 162 Fantasia on English Folk Song. Studies for an ‘Loch Lomond’, 141 English Ballad Opera,62

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orchestral works (cont.) Symphony No. 9, 196, 197, 199, 200, 214, Fantasia on ‘Greensleeves’, 131 221–5, 226, 265, 295, 296, 303, 311 Five Variants of ‘Dives and Lazarus’, 131, Tuba Concerto, 179, 182, 196–7, 289 257, 284 Two Hymn-Tune Preludes, 127 Flos Campi, 48, 106, 165, 189, 253, 257, 259, Violin Concerto (Concerto Accademico), 269, 278–80, 313 187–9, 191, 251, 280 Happy Day at Gunby,11 Wasps, The (Aristophanic Suite, incl. Harnham Down (No. 1 of Two Impressions for overture), 44, 84, 257, 301; See also Orchestra), 87 Wasps, The (incidental music) Heroic Elegy and Triumphal Epilogue, 81, 84, songs and song cycles 85, 86, 275, 276 Along the Field, 117 In the Fen Country, 70, 81, 87, 88, 181 ‘Amour de moy, L’’, 114 Lark Ascending, The, 73, 143, 179, 182, ‘Boy Johnny’, 112, 114 185–7, 192, 276, 286, 296, 306, 307, ‘Claribel’, 112 309, 317 ‘Cradle Song, A’, 112 London Symphony, A, 15, 58, 60, 66, 68–9, 71, Four Hymns, 117, 127 73, 83, 95–9, 102, 131, 183, 185, 199, 200, Four Last Songs, 107, 118 252, 253, 261, 262, 276, 277, 278, 292, Four Poems by Fredegond Shove, 118, 145 312, 317 House of Life, The, 112, 113 Norfolk Rhapsody No. 1, 69, 81, 87, 88–9 ‘Heart’s Haven’, 113 Norfolk Rhapsody No. 2, 44, 87, 88, 89 ‘Silent Noon’, 106, 113, 275 Norfolk Rhapsody No. 3, 87, 88, 89 ‘If I Were a Queen’, 112 Oboe Concerto, 191–4, 284 ‘Jean Renaud’, 114 Partita for Double String Orchestra, 262 ‘Linden Lea’, 106, 108, 111, 276 Pastoral Symphony, A, 30, 57, 58, 64, 70–1, Merciless Beauty, 117 72–4, 83, 88, 100–2, 172, 183, 199–200, Nocturne (1908), 46–7 250, 253, 259, 277, 278, 280, 283, 300, On Wenlock Edge, 41, 58, 59, 60, 63–4, 68, 81, 303, 304, 308, 316, 317–18 106, 114–15, 117, 143, 263, 276, 277 Piano Concerto, 47, 182, 189–91, 254, 281, ‘Bredon Hill’, 41, 63, 115 289, 296, 309 Songs of Travel, 81, 106, 107, 112, 113–14, 265, Prelude on an Old Carol Tune. See Mayor of 276, 277 Casterbridge, The ‘Roadside Fire, The’, 114 Romance in D♭ for harmonica and ‘Whither Must I Wander?’, 112, 114 strings, 289 ‘Splendour Falls, The’, 112 Serenade in A minor, 85, 297 ‘Tears, Idle Tears’, 112, 114 Sinfonia Antartica, 106, 170, 199–200, Ten Blake Songs, 118, 170 214–19, 221, 223, 225, 226, 264, 265, 280, Three Poems by Walt Whitman, 118 290, 292–3, 308 ‘Clear Midnight, A’, 118 Solent, The,87 ‘Joy, Shipmate, Joy’, 118 Story of a Flemish Farm (suite), 170 ‘Nocturne’, 118 Symphonic Rhapsody, 84, 85, 86 ‘To Daﬀodils’, 112 Symphony No. 4, 51, 83, 191, 195, 199–204, ‘When I Am Dead, My Dearest’, 113 207–8, 209–11, 212–14, 222–3, 225, Willow-Wood, 68, 112, 113, 114, 124 226, 244, 253, 254–5, 259, 281–3, vocal ensemble 284, 285, 300, 304, 307, 311, 315, 316, ‘Greensleeves’, 142 317, 319 ‘Rest’, 113, 116, 117 Symphony No. 5, 48, 154, 166, 174, 182, 183, ‘Ring Out Your Bells’, 116 189, 191, 194, 200, 201, 204–6, 208–9, ‘Silence and Music’, 288 210–12, 217, 226, 259–60, 263, 265, 283, ‘Sound Sleep’, 113, 116 284, 285, 287, 300, 301, 303, 308, 311–12, Three Shakespeare Songs, 289 314–15, 316–17, 320 ‘Valiant for Truth’, 152, 153 Symphony No. 6, 47, 131, 142, 194, 200, 204, ‘Willow Song, The’,34 206–7, 209–10, 212–14, 222–3, 226, 262, voices and orchestra 283, 285–6, 287, 289, 292, 300, 301–2, Benedicite, 154, 282 303, 304, 307, 311, 315, 316–17 Dona Nobis Pacem, 127, 128, 129–30, Symphony No. 8, 47, 196, 199, 200, 214, 253, 283 219–21, 225, 226, 265, 285, 293–4, England, My England, 258, 287 295, 308 Epithalamion, 165

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Fantasia on Christmas Carols, 62, Sea Symphony, A, 38, 58, 59–60, 64, 66, 68, 71, 141, 276 74, 83, 84, 86–7, 90, 92–5, 96, 99, 106, Fantasia (quasi variazione) on the ‘Old 104th’ 118, 123–4, 127, 199–200, 242, 251, 253, Psalm Tune, 289 255, 264, 265, 276, 277, 308 Five Tudor Portraits, 127, 129–30, 161, 292, Serenade to Music, 127, 130, 133, 142, 254, 293, 317 283, 289 Folk Songs of the Four Seasons, 145, 238, 289 Six Choral Songs to be Sung in Time of War, Garden of Proserpine, The, 276, 297 287 Hodie, 30, 131–3, 290–1 Sons of Light, The, 134, 238 Magniﬁcat, 50, 165, 317 Te Deum in F, Festival, 151, 152, 153 Old Hundredth Psalm Tune, The, 151, 288 Thanksgiving for Victory, 131, 260, 287 Oxford Elegy, An, 289–90 Toward the Unknown Region, 38, 57, 66, 68, Sancta Civitas, 127, 128–9, 130, 236, 259, 261, 81, 123, 124, 251, 276, 277 280, 281, 317 Willow-Wood, 113

General index

Abraham, Gerald, 70–1 Barnes, William, 108, 112 Ackroyd, Peter, 3 Bartók, Béla, 61, 226, 286–7, 302, 307, 316, 319 Adams, Byron, 61, 90, 107, 118, 243 Bates, Ian, 89 Adams, John, 2 Baudelaire, Charles, 38, 43 Adler, Larry, 289 Baughan, J. H. G., 62 Adorno, Theodor, 11 Bax, Sir Arnold, 200, 255, 281, 296 Allen, Sir Hugh, 31, 64, 74, 147, 251, 278 BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation Alwyn, William, 293 (formerly Company)), 4, 20, 21, 131, 165, Annan, Noel, (Lord), 18, 19 169, 239, 249–68, 287, 290, 292, 296 Aranyi, Jelly d’, 187, 251 Home Service, 238, 261, 262, 263–4, 265 Aristophanes Music Department, 249, 250, 251, 252, 259, Wasps, The, 2, 84, 90, 167 261, 262 Arne, Thomas, 134 Third Programme, 20, 21, 23, 238, 261, 262, Arnold, J. H., 153 263, 264 Arnold, Malcolm, 292 BBC Symphony Orchestra, 249, 253, 258, 265, Arnold, Matthew, 87, 136, 290 281, 285, 290 ‘Dover Beach’, 281 Beecham, Sir Thomas, 84, 253 Scholar Gipsy, The, 289 Beethoven, Ludwig van, 33, 43, 95, 97, 137, 180, Thyrsis, 289 194, 212, 225, 245, 246, 257, 266, 286, 317 Arts Council, 20 Piano Sonata in F minor (‘Appassionata’), 33 Asquith, Sir Cyril, 14 String Quartet in F, Op. 135, 319 Atlas, Allan, 92 Symphony No. 5, 40, 98, 214, 283 Symphony No. 9, 33, 97, 98, 245, 319 Babaïan, Marguerite, 39 Bell, W. H., 166 Bach, Johann Sebastian, 30, 33, 133, 143, 187, Benjamin, Arthur, 35, 39 188, 235, 239, 246, 266, 280, 313, 314 Benson, (Sir) Francis (Frank), 168–9 Cantata No. 140 (‘Wachet auf, ruft uns die Benson, Lionel, 116 Stimme’), 125, 234 Berg, Alban, 61, 290 Mass in B minor, 131 Berlioz, Hector, 88 St Matthew Passion, 128, 131, 133, 219, 236, Symphonie Fantastique,88 239, 246 Berners, Lord (Sir Gerald Hugh Tyrwhitt- Bach Choir, 64, 117, 233, 235–6 Wilson), 61 Bainton, Edgar, 59 Bernstein, Leonard, 282, 286 Ballet, William, 132 Birmingham, 74 Ballets Russes, 162 Birmingham Musical Festival, 59 Banﬁeld, Stephen, 107, 114 Birmingham Post, 281 Bantock, Sir Granville, 56–7, 59, 60–1, 276 Birtwistle, Sir Harrison, 299, 304, 309, 315 Atalanta in Calydon,60 Triumph of Time, The, 313 Gethsemane,65 Blake, William, 280, 319 Old English Suite,60 Illustrations of the Book of Job, 163–4 Omar Khayyám, 60, 64 Bliss, Sir Arthur, 51, 61, 236, 258, 281, 292, 296 Sea Wanderers, 60, 64 Blom, Eric, 281 Barber, Samuel, 281, 286, 295 Böhme, Franz, 136 Barbirolli, Sir John, 264, 265, 287, 293, 302 Bolm, Adolph, 163, 277 [330]

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Bolm Ballet, 277 Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania. See Vaughan Boosey, publishers, 109, 113 Williams, Ralph: LECTURES Borodin, Aleksandr Porfir’yevich, 40, 44, 45 Bunyan, John, 171, 172, 173, 174, 211, 319 Boston, 277, 281 Pilgrim’s Progress, The, 15, 90, 152, 157, 171, Boston Symphony Orchestra, 281 172, 173, 174, 175, 211, 259, 283, 287 Botticelli, Sandro, 164 Burns, Robert, 110 Boughton, Rutland, 22, 172 Bush, Alan, 21, 258 Choral Variations on Two Folk Songs,60 Butterworth, George, 99, 181 Immortal Hour, The,61 Byrd, William, 73, 74, 289, 302 Boulez, Pierre, 275, 299, 316 Boult, Sir Adrian, 68, 72, 73, 249, 251, 252, 255, Calvocoressi, Michel-Dimitri, 38, 39–40, 41, 261, 265, 268, 287 45, 61 chief conductor of BBC SO, 253 Cambridge, 288 correspondence with RVW, 254, 258 Cambridge, University of, 13, 16, 19, 109, Director of Music, BBC, 253, 258 116, 275 liaison between RVW and non-British Cambridge University Musical Society, 163 conductors, 255 Greek Play series, 167 performances of RVW with BBC, 253, 260 Trinity College, 34 premieres RVW’s works, 254–5, 259, 262, Cameron, Basil, 262 281, 285 Capell, Richard, 69, 70, 73, 285, 288 promotes RVW’s lesser-known works, 256 Cardiff, 127 promotion of English music in WW1, 252 Cardiff Music Festival, 123 similarities to RVW, 266–8 Cardus, Sir Neville, 282, 289, 293, 295 tributes to RVW, 251 Caunt, William, 64 Bournemouth, 87, 89 Chappell, William Bournemouth Musical Festival, 73 Popular Music of the Olden Time, 139 Pokesdown Technical School. See Vaughan Charterhouse School, 13, 16, 111 Williams, Ralph: LECTURES Chaucer, Geoffrey, 117–18 Bournemouth Sinfonietta, 307 Chicago, 277 Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra (until 1954, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, 277 Bournemouth Municipal Orchestra), 84 Child, Harold, 157, 158 Brahms, Johannes, 33, 37, 39, 85, 180, 275 Christ’s Hospital (school), 152 Ein deutsches Requiem, 93, 128 Churchill, Sir Winston, 22, 267 Symphony No. 4, 98 City of Birmingham Choir, 74 Bramley, Henry Ramsden, 11 City of Birmingham (Symphony) Orchestra, Christmas Carols New and Old,11 252, 265 Breitkopf & Härtel, publishers, 84, 124 Clark, Walter Aaron, 50, 160 Brentwood, 232 Coates, Albert, 69 Brian, Havergal, 200 Cobbe, Hugh, 2, 4 Bridcut, John Cobbett, Walter Willson, 92, 183 Passions of Vaughan Williams, The,2 Cohen, Harriet, 254, 261 Bridge, Frank, 180, 276, 315 Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 112 Bridges, Robert Hymn before Sunrise in the Vale of Chamouni, Yattendon Hymnal, 147 215, 219 Bright, John, 129 Coleridge-Taylor, Samuel British Music Society, 67, 69 Scenes from ‘The Song of Hiawatha’,60 British National Opera Company, 158, 250 Colles, H. C., 57, 69–70, 71, 73, 279, 281, 282 Britten, Benjamin (Lord Britten of Aldeburgh), Cook, E. T., 250 56, 231, 281, 287, 290, 292, 296, 297, 299, Cooke, Deryck, 286 302, 305, 309, 313, 318 Coolidge, Elizabeth Sprague, 277 Peter Grimes, 261, 285, 286 Copland, Aaron, 3, 201, 281, 282, 286, 287, 293 Broadwood, Lucy, 116, 139, 232 Council for the Encouragement of Music and the Brown, George Mackay, 305 Arts (CEMA), 20, 21 Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 110 Coverdale, Miles, 291 Browning, Robert, 110 Cowell, Henry, 281 Bruch, Max, 37, 40, 42, 85 Craig, Gordon, 168 Kol Nidrei,37 Creighton, Walter, 114 Scottish Fantasy,37 Crossley, Ada, 114

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Cumberland, Gerald, 56, 57, 60, 62, 69 Einstein, Albert, 295 Curle, Cordelia (RVW’s sister-in-law), 277 Elgar, Caroline Alice, Lady, 38 Elgar, Sir Edward, 3, 31, 33, 36, 38, 44, 56, 58, 59, Daily Telegraph, The, 57, 285, 288 60, 70, 73, 74, 75, 83, 85, 93, 107, 115, 134, Dale Roberts, Jeremy, 314 231, 236, 244, 253, 260, 280, 281, 283, Darwin, Charles, 31, 57 287, 290, 296, 307, 312, 315, 316, 317, Darwin, Henrietta (Etty), 31 318, 319 Davies, Sir Henry Walford, 59, 147, 236 Apostles, The, 225 Noble Numbers,60 Cockaigne (In London Town),98 Davies, Sir Peter Maxwell, 4, 231, 299, 300, Coronation Ode,59 301–6, 309, 312 Dream of Gerontius, The, 56, 58, 60, 75, ‘Advent Calendar’, 305 128, 129 Antarctic Symphony, 302 Introduction and Allegro for strings, 91 Mass, 305 Pomp and Circumstance Marches, 58 Dawney, Norah, 114 Symphony No. 1, 66 Day, James, 3, 106, 118, 132, 200 Variations on an Original Theme de Grey, Gladys, Lady (Marchioness of (‘Enigma’), 75 Ripon), 115 Elizabeth II, Queen, 151 Debussy, Achille-Claude, 39, 40, 44, 59, 60, 61, coronation, 151, 264, 288 66, 67, 68, 74, 88, 93, 95, 96, 100, 143, 155, Elliot, J. H., 291 169, 182, 200, 303, 305, 308, 310, 317 Elwes, Gervase, 63, 64, 114, 116, 117 Damoiselle Élue, La, 113 English Folk Dance and Song Society (EFDSS), Nocturnes (‘Nuages’), 100 165, 283; See also English Folk Dance Pelléas et Mélisande, 160 Society, Folk-Song Society String Quartet in G minor, 47 Cecil Sharp House, 163 DeLamarter, Eric, 277 English Folk Dance Society, 163 Delius, Frederick, 38, 56, 59, 253, 306, 316 EFDS Medley, An, 163 Diaghilev, Sergei, 162, 163 English National Opera, 5, 159, 297 Dickens, Charles Erlebach, Rupert, 72–3 Christmas Carol, A, 163, 277 Euripides, 168 Dickinson, A. E. F., 187, 193, 194 Evans, Edwin, 38, 69, 72, 110, 115, 182, Donaldson, Douglas, 62 276, 281 Donne, John Evans, Peter, 181, 194, 195 Sun Rising, The, 215, 219 Dorking, 21, 236, 238, 267 Faber Music, publishers, 85, 180 Dorking and Leith Hill District Preservation Falkner, Keith, 294 Society, 166 Farrar, Ernest, 90 Leith Hill Musical Competition. See Leith Hill Farrer, Evangeline, Lady (née Knox), 117 Musical Festival Fauré, Gabriel, 38, 44, 143, 307 Leith Hill Musical Festival, 117, 122, 125, Feilding, Everard, 116 127–8, 131, 233, 234, 236, 238, 239, 246 Finzi, Gerald, 236, 259 St Martin’s Church, 151 Fisher, H. A. L., 14 Dowland, John, 302 FitzGerald, Edward Downes, Olin, 295 Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, The, 110 Draper, Muriel, 115 Flower, Archibald, 168 Drummond, William, 132, 291 Folk-Song Society, 61, 232, 243; See also English Dukas, Paul Folk Dance and Song Society, English Apprenti Sorcier, L’ (The Sorcerer’s Folk Dance Society Apprentice), 225 Forster, E. M., 31, 166 Duncan, Isadora, 168 Forsyth, Cecil, 275 Dunstable, John, 74 Foss, Hubert, 29, 187, 290 Dvořák, Antonín, 85 Fox Strangways, A. H., 67, 69, 71, 73 Te Deum, 128 Franck, César, 112, 201 Dykes, John Bacchus, 148 Frogley, Alain, 200, 221, 223, 224–5, 237, 296 Fuller Maitland, J. A., 57–8, 64–5 East Lincolnshire Musical Festival, 116 Eastbourne, 33 Gardiner, Henry Balfour, 113, 116 Ecoivres, 234 Garnett, Richard Eggar, Katharine, 69, 70 Poison Maid, The, 161

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Genesis (band), 3 Henley, William Ernest, 258 George V, King, 237 Hepokoski, James, 205 coronation, 166 Herbert, George, 63, 132 George VI, King Hereford coronation, 151, 237 Hereford Festival. See Three Choirs Festival Gershwin, George, 286 Herrick, Robert, 11, 110, 111, 112 Gibbons, Orlando, 74, 137, 146 Herrmann, Bernard, 287 Gielgud, Sir John, 173 Hickox, Richard, 5 Gilbert, Sir W. S., 161 Hindemith, Paul, 286 Glinka, Mikhail Ivanovich, 172 Holbrooke, Joseph, 56, 57, 60–1, 66, 69, 279–80 Life for the Tsar, A, 172 Dylan,60 Glock, William, 290 Pierrot and Pierrette,60 Gloucester Holst, Gustav, 38, 117, 159, 162, 234, 251, 252, Gloucester Cathedral, 92, 303 253, 256, 278, 280, 289, 295, 313, 316 Gloucester Festival, 64, 123; See also Three Choral Symphony, 280 Choirs Festival Egdon Heath, 313 Godfrey, Sir Dan, 84 ‘I Vow to Thee, My Country’, 166 Goehr, Alexander, 299, 312 ‘O Valiant Hearts’, 294 Goldmark, Daniel, 170, 171 Ode to Death, 236 Goossens, Sir Eugene, 61 Planets, The, 285 Gounod, Charles, 148 Homer, 243 Gourmont, Remy de, 43 Honegger, Arthur Graham, Cyril, 64, 65 Symphony No. 1, 201 Grainger, Percy, 113, 115, 116 Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus), 166 Gray, Alan, 31 Horsham, 233 Gray, Cecil, 39, 200, 279 Housman, A. E., 63, 64, 111, 117, 280, 307 Greene, Harry Plunket, 114, 277 Shropshire Lad, A, 115 Grew, Sydney, 60, 61, 63, 64, 69, 70, 74 Hovingham Music Festival, 114, 123 Griffiths, Dai, 226 Howells, Herbert, 34, 48, 70, 278, 281 Grimley, Daniel M., 215, 218 Howes, Frank, 159, 160, 199, 265, 285–6, Grove, Sir George, 33 288, 293 Gunby Hall, 116 Huddersfield Choral Society, 127 Hughes, Arthur, 116 Hadley, Joanna, 171 Hughes, Meirion, 3, 57 Hallé Magazine, 291 Hull, Arthur Eaglefield, 64, 67–8, 69, 73 Hallé Orchestra, 264, 265, 285, 302 Hull, Robert, 243 Hamburg, 237 Hurlstone, William Yeates, 116 University of Hamburg, 237 Hymn Festival, 147, 151 Hammond, H. E. D., 139 Handel, George Frideric, 33, 111, 125, 134 Incorporated Society of Musicians, 108 Judas Maccabaeus, 233 Indy, Vincent d’, 38, 39, 201 Messiah, 122 Ireland, John Handel Society, 117, 235 Piano Concerto, 309 Hardy, Thomas, 132, 291, 306 Irving, Ernest, 170 Dynasts, The, 262 Ives, Charles, 98, 201, 281 Mayor of Casterbridge, The, 169, 262 Tess of the D’Urbervilles, 224–5 Jacob, Gordon, 30 Harford, Jack Francis, 114 Jonson, Ben, 162 Harper-Scott, J. P. E., 200 Journal of the Folk-Song Society, 232 Harris, Roy, 201, 287 Harrison, Tom, 166 Kalisch, Alfred, 69 Harvey, PJ, 3 Karpeles, Maud, 282 Hassler, Hans Leo, 136, 137 Keats, John, 280 Hawthorne, Nathaniel Kennedy, Douglas, 163 Rappaccini’s Daughter, 161 Kennedy, Michael, 3, 96, 102, 107, 113, 114, 115, Haydn, Joseph, 111, 180 142, 181, 188, 193, 194, 199, 200, 224, 299 Hellawell, Piers, 4, 300, 301, 306–11 Keynes, Geoffrey, 163–4 Hely-Hutchinson, Victor, 260 Keynes, John Maynard, 21

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Kiddle, Frederick, 63, 64, 114 London Opera Club, 264 Kingsley, Charles, 109 London Philharmonic Orchestra, 134, 274 Kirby, Alan, 261 London Symphony Orchestra, 69, 131 Kodály, Zoltán, 61, 297 Longman, R. G., 282 Koussevitzky, Serge, 255, 281 Lowe, George, 60 Luther, Martin, 132 Lambert, Constant, 200, 261 Lutosławski, Witold, 309 Lang, Paul Henry, 294 Lutyens, Elisabeth, 278 Langford, Samuel, 278 Lyon, James, 181 Lawes, Henry, 146 Leeds, 275, 288 MacMillan, James, 305 Leeds Musical Festival, 39, 59, 64, 90, 92, Maconchy, Dame Elizabeth, 29, 30, 32, 235, 123–4, 127, 276, 280 255, 311 LeFanu, Nicola, 4, 300, 311–15 Maeterlinck, Maurice, 169 ‘Finding’, 314–15 Mahler, Gustav, 85, 93, 96, 199, 316, 317 Legge, Robin, 57, 64 Symphony No. 8, 199 Lehár, Franz Symphony No. 9, 98, 214, 316 lustige Witwe, Die (The Merry Widow), 167 Manchester, 264, 265, 293 Lehmann, Liza, 110, 112, 115 Manchester Guardian, The, 278, 282, In a Persian Garden, 110 293, 295 In Memoriam, 110, 113 Manning, David, 185, 299 Leith Hill Place, 13, 20, 111 Marston, Philip, 87 Lew, Nathaniel, 90, 172 Mason, Colin, 293, 294 Lewin, David, 217 Massingberd, Margaret, 116 Lewis, Cecil Day, 264 Mathieson, Muir, 170 Lewis, Joseph, 74 McFarland, Alison, 163, 164 Ligeti, György, 299, 316 McInnes, James Campbell, 114, 116 Lontano, 226 McNaught, William, 282 Liszt, Franz, 85, 143 Mellers, Wilfrid, 213 Symphonie zu Dantes Divina Commedia, Mendelssohn, Felix, 33 Eine, 214 Elijah, 122 Lockspeiser, Edward, 131 Frühlingslied, Op. 62, No. 6, 167 London, 59, 96, 100, 109, 114, 122, 233, 236, 242, Meredith, George, 185 252, 257, 264, 275, 277, 278, 280, 282, Merrick, W. P., 143 289, 295 Messiaen, Olivier, 315, 316 Aeolian Hall, 63–4, 65, 114, 117 Midland Musical Competition Festival, 62 Bechstein Hall, 61, 113, 114 Milford, Sir Humphrey, 284 British Library, 38, 81 Milford, Robin, 236, 255 Coliseum, 2, 297 Milton, John, 132, 291 Crystal Palace, 109, 166 Mitchell, Donald, 132, 226, 291–2, 296 Festival of Britain (1951), 133–4, 263, 287 Mitropoulos, Dimitri, 282 Festival of Empire (1911), 166 Monteverdi, Claudio His Majesty’s Theatre, 158, 250 Orfeo, 221 International Music Congress (1911), 60 Montgomery-Massingberd, Diana, 116 National Gallery, 238 Monthly Musical Record, 58, 60, 61, 65, 67, 69, Promenade Concerts (‘Proms’), 39, 45, 84, 72–3 251, 252, 254, 259, 260, 261, 262, 263, Morris, Reginald Owen, 69, 255 265, 296, 306, 315 Morris, William, 17 Queen’s Hall, 65, 68, 72, 74, 84, 252, 255 Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 40, 41, 47, 111, 157, Royal Albert Hall, 238, 254, 259, 260, 261, 212, 305 285, 315 Müller-Hartmann, Robert, 285 Royal Festival Hall, 133, 267, 288 Murray, Gilbert, 168, 243, 244 St Barnabas Church, Lambeth, 31, 117, 233 Murrill, Herbert, 263 St James’s Hall, 109, 110, 114, 116 Music & Letters, 67, 69, 70, 71, 131, 292 St Pancras Town Hall, 265 Music and Musicians, 239 Westminster Abbey, 151, 260 Music League Festival, 123 Westminster Cathedral, 74, 305 Music Magazine, 261, 265 London Church Choir Association, 151 Music Student, The,69

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Musical America, 286, 297 Passmore Edwards Settlement, 117, Musical Herald,63 233–4 Musical News, 58, 59, 63–6, 72, 73–4 Payne, Anthony, 4, 300, 314, 315–20 Musical Opinion (and Music Trade Review), 56, Time’s Arrow, 319 58, 62, 64, 65, 67, 291 Payne, Elsie, 88 Musical Standard, The, 58, 62, 64, 65, 70, 110, 276 Peterkin, Norman, 284 Musical Times, The, 65, 66, 68–9, 115, 118, 124, Philadelphia Orchestra, 281 132, 181 Philharmonia Orchestra, 302 Mussorgsky, Modest Petrovich, 45 Pilot, The, 275 Boris Godunov, 160 Pitt, Percy, 252, 263 Poldowski (Dean Paul, Irène, Lady), 116 Nation, The,69 Pople, Anthony, 92 NBC (National Broadcasting Company), 295 Pottipher, Mr, 232 New Music Manchester group, 56, 299, 301 Previn, André, 287 New York, 102, 260, 277, 284, 294, 295 Prokofiev, Sergei, 201, 226, 292 New York Philharmonic Orchestra, 281, 282, 295 Puccini, Giacomo, 159, 317 New York Times, 295 Purcell, Henry, 73, 134, 137, 231, 289, 320 Newman, Ernest, 60, 115, 290 Welcome Songs, 11 Nicolai, Otto, 159 Nielsen, Carl, 200 Quilter, Roger, 109, 111, 113, 115, 116 Nikisch, Arthur, 251 Four Songs of the Sea, 109 Noel, Caroline, 150 ‘Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal’, 109 Norfolk Music Festival, Connecticut, 102, 277 Norwich Rachmaninov, Sergei, 130, 254, 290 Norwich Musical Festival, 127, 129 Bells, The, 199 Novello, publishers, 109, 125 Piano Concerto No. 2, 92 Symphony No. 3, 201 Oates, Jennifer, 130 Radio Times, The, 255, 260, 265 Offenbach, Jacques Ralph Vaughan Williams Society, 2, 107 Papillon, Le (‘Apache Dance’), 167 Ravel, Maurice, 38–53, 61, 63, 67–8, 74, Roi Carotte, Le, 167 85, 88, 89–90, 93, 100, 115, 160, Onderdonk, Julian, 3 167, 181, 200, 276, 280, 303, 304, 308, O’Neill, Moira, 109 310, 313, 317 O’Neill, Norman, 113 Cinq mélodies populaires grecques,39 Ottaway, Hugh, 160, 200 Daphnis et Chloé, 48, 50 Ouless, Evelyn, 171 Gaspard de la Nuit (‘Scarbo’), 50 Oxford, University of, 231, 251 Introduction and Allegro, 39, 45 Heather Festival (1926), 127 Mère l’Oye, Ma, 317 RVW’s honorary doctorate, 235 Miroirs (‘La vallée des cloches’), 41 Oxford University Press, 284, 291, 295 Pavane pour une infante défunte,39 Rhapsodie espagnole,46 Palestrina Society, 117, 168 Shéhérazade,46 Palmer, Tony String Quartet in F major, 45, 47 O Thou Transcendent: The Life of Ralph Tzigane, 187 Vaughan Williams,2,4 Ravenscroft, Thomas, 149 Paris, 38, 40, 47, 89, 115, 181, 293 Raverat, Gwen, 31, 163–4 Parratt, Sir Walter, 31 Reigate, 90, 171–2, 173–4, 287 Parry, Sir Hubert, 33–4, 35–6, 37, 38, 39, 40, 43, Řezníček, Emil von, 84 56, 61, 71, 72, 85, 93, 109, 111, 115, 116, Richards, Jeffrey, 3, 171, 194, 195 121, 134, 149, 180–1, 231, 234, 240, Riley, Matthew, 22, 23 241–2, 275, 296, 317 Rimsky-Korsakov, Nicolay Andreyevich, 40, Art of Music, The, 240 44–6 English Lyrics, 109 Symphony No. 2 (Antar), 45–6, 214 Evolution of the Art of Music, The, 241 Robinson, Stanford, 264 Folk-Song Society, inaugural address, 61, 243 Rodmell, Paul, 36 ‘Jerusalem’, 166 Roland-Manuel, Alexis, 41, 43 Scenes from Shelley’s ‘Prometheus Rosenthal, Manuel, 41, 43, 44 Unbound’,60 Rossetti, Christina, 63, 112, 113, 116

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Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 63, 109, 112, 113, 124, Shapleigh, Bertram 275 Lake of the Dismal Swamp,60 Roussel, Albert, 201 Sharp, Cecil, 14, 15, 61, 139, 161, 169, 232 Royal Academy of Music (RAM), 57, 67 Sharp, Evelyn, 161 Royal College of Music (RCM), 13, 14, 30, 33, 57, Shaw, George Bernard 58, 67, 84, 85, 109, 114, 123, 124, 235, Devil’s Disciple, The, 169 255, 262, 275, 278, 314 Shaw, Martin, 147 RCM Magazine,29 Shawe-Taylor, Desmond, 286 Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, 265 Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 110 Royal Philharmonic Society, 236, 259, 265, 278 Prometheus Unbound, 215, 218 Orchestra of the Royal Philharmonic Shore, Bernard, 15 Society, 72 Shorter, Wayne, 3 Rubens, Peter Paul, 164 Shostakovich, Dmitri, 201, 213, 226, 286, 287, Rural Music Schools Association, 238 292, 316 Ruskin, John, 17 Shove, Fredegond, 145 Russell, Bertrand, 295 Sibelius, Jean, 85, 200, 255, 284, 290, 297, RVW Trust, 238 308, 317 Oceanides, The, 102, 277 Sackville-West, Edward, 173, 287 Symphony No. 5, 284 Saint-Saëns, Camille, 44, 201 Symphony No. 7, 214 Salvation Army, 15 Sinatra, Frank, 2 Sandburg, Carl, 295 Skelton, John, 127, 130, 152 Sargent, Sir Malcolm, 250, 255, 263, 264, Slatkin, Leonard, 287 265, 287 Smart, Sir George, 33 Sassoon, Philip, 169 Smetana, Bedřich Savage, Roger, 166 Bartered Bride, The, 317 Sawyer, Frank, 108 Society for the Promotion of New Music, Saylor, Eric, 72, 128, 133 238, 318 Schoenberg, Arnold, 59, 61, 263, 290, 292, 307, Somervell, Arthur, 109 315, 318 Spencer, Herbert, 240, 243 Buch der hängenden Gärten, Das, 181 Spenser, Edmund Chamber Symphony, No.1, 68 Epithalamion, 165, 264, 283 Drei Klavierstücke, Op. 11, 67, 181 Speyer, Edgar, 115 Erwartung, 181 Speyer, Leonora, 115 Five Orchestral Pieces, 181, 255 Spitzer, Michael, 225 Scholes, Percy, 250 Spohr, Louis, 1, 148 Schools’ Music Association of Great Squire, William Barclay, 275 Britain, 134 Stainer, Sir John, 11 Schott, publishers, 84 Christmas Carols New and Old,11 Schubert, Franz, 109, 111, 246, 257 Stanford, Sir Charles Villiers, 35–7, 38–9, 40, Schuman, William, 295 42–3, 56, 61, 72, 84, 85, 93, 109, 124, 149, Schumann, Robert, 109 152, 275 Schuster, Frank, 115 ‘Bluebird, The’, 288 Schwartz, Elliott S., 200 Irish Idyll in Six Miniatures, An, 109 Schwarz, Rudolf, 265 Musical Composition,35–6 Schwiller Quartet, 63, 114, 181 RVW on Stanford as a teacher, 35 Scott, Cyril, 56, 60, 61, 66, 68, 113, 116, 275 Stevenson, Robert Louis, 63, 112, 114 Old Songs in New Guise,61 Songs of Travel, 112 Piano Concerto, 60 Stewart, Jean, 194 Scott, Robert Falcon, 215, 218, 219, 292 Stock, Frederick, 277 Scott, Sir Walter, 109 Stockhausen, Karlheinz, 275, 299 Scriabin, Aleksandr Nikolayevich, 36, 61, Stoeckel, Carl, 277 67, 68 Strad, The, 275 Seer, Paul, 65 Stradling, Robert, 3, 57 Shakespeare, William, 11, 109, 159, 160, 169, 280 Stratford-upon-Avon, 162, 168, 276 Merchant of Venice, The, 127, 283 Shakespeare Memorial Theatre Festival, Merry Wives of Windsor, The, 159 168, 169 Shakespeare Prize, 237 Stratford-upon-Avon Herald, 168

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Strauss, Richard, 36, 59, 61, 67, 85, 88, 181, Bournemouth, Pokesdown Technical 290, 296 School (1902), 87, 231, 232, 233, 234, 240 Stravinsky, Igor, 43, 59, 61, 66, 71, 94, 96, 98, 164, Brentwood (1903), 232 226, 286, 302, 307, 308, 309, 318 Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania (1932), Firebird, The,94 239, 244, 281 Petrushka, 94, 98, 217 Cornell University (1954), 294, 295 Symphony in C, 201 Toronto (1954), 295 Streeton, Arthur Yale University (1954), 245 Somme Valley Near Corbie, The, 318 WRITINGS Sturgis, Julian, 109 ‘British Music’ (‘British Music in the Tudor Sullivan, Sir Arthur Seymour, 161 Period’), 8, 15 Sunday Times, The, 290 ‘Composer in Wartime, The’, 106 Swinburne, Algernon, 110, 276 ‘Composing for the Films’, 170 Synge, J. M., 160, 280, 314 ‘English Folk-Songs’, 240–2 Riders to the Sea, 15, 159–60, 314 ‘Hands off the Third’, 239 ‘Influence of Folk-song on the Music of the Tallis, Thomas, 74, 90, 92, 137, 146, 172, 173, 289 Church, The’. See National Music Tanglewood Music Festival, 286 ‘Letter and the Spirit, The’, 242–3 Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich, 85, 91, 93, 157, Making of Music, The, 245 169, 244 ‘Musical Autobiography, A’, 29, 32, 40, 111 Manfred Symphony, 214 National Music, 10, 136, 239, 242, 243–4, Symphony No. 4, 86 245, 246, 281 Symphony No. 6 (Pathétique), 86, 98, 286 ‘Nationalism and Internationalism’, 245 Telemann, Georg Philipp, 1 ‘Sermon to Vocalists, A’, 106, 109 Temperley, Nicholas, 148 ‘Sinfonia Antartica’ (programme note), 215 Tennant, Neil, 2 ‘Some Thoughts on Beethoven’s Choral Tennyson, Alfred, Lord, 109–10, 112 Symphony’, 33, 245 Terry, Sir Richard Runciman, 74 Some Thoughts on Beethoven’s Choral Tertis, Lionel, 259, 279 Symphony with Writings on Other Thomas, Edward, 73 Musical Subjects, 245 Three Choirs Festival, 59, 90, 111, 123, 127, 129, ‘What Have We Learnt from Elgar?’,44 131, 289, 291 ‘Who Wants the English Composer?’, Thuille, Ludwig, 37 15, 242, 290 Times, The, 57, 108, 276, 279, 283, 285, 288 Vaughan Williams, Ursula (formerly Wood), 5, Tippett, Sir Michael, 21, 56, 304, 309, 310, 314, 29, 50, 73, 111, 115, 118, 132, 133, 134, 318 161, 165, 174, 180, 237, 243, 256, 264, Fantasia Concertante on a Theme of 283, 288, 291, 294, 296, 302, 311, 314, 315 Corelli, 308 Verdi, Giuseppe, 37, 157, 159 Toscanini, Arturo, 255 Falstaff, 159, 262 Tovey, Sir Donald Francis, 34, 189, 291 Verlaine, Paul, 63 Trevelyan, Elizabeth, 282 Verrall, Mrs, 233 Trevelyan, G. M., 245 Victoria, Queen, 29 Trevelyan, R. C., 282 Vocalist, The, 108–9, 111, 112, 114 Turnage, Mark-Anthony, 2 Wagner, Richard, 33–4, 36, 43, 60, 61, 85, 88, 91, Vaillancourt, Michael, 85, 87 93, 96, 115, 143, 157, 160, 169, 170, 275 van den Toorn, Pieter, 45 Wallace, William, 59 Varèse, Edgard, 316 Walton, Sir William, 281, 284, 290, 292 Vaughan Williams, Adeline (née Fisher), 19, 236, Symphony No. 1, 200 277, 311 Ward, Mary, 117 Vaughan Williams, Arthur (father), 13, 20, 29 Warlock, Peter (Philip Heseltine), 278, 318 Vaughan Williams, Edward (grandfather), 13 Warner, Sylvia Townsend, 30 Vaughan Williams, Margaret (‘Meggie’, sister), Warr, Eric, 265 117, 125 Washington, DC Vaughan Williams, Margaret (née Wedgwood, Library of Congress, 277 mother), 13, 33 Watts, Isaac, 152–3 Vaughan Williams, Ralph Webern, Anton, 290, 297 LECTURES Symphony, 283

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Wedgwood, Ralph (‘Randolph’), 108 Wilde, Oscar, 161 Wedgwood, Sophy, 111 Williams, Grace, 255 Wells, H. G. Wilson, Sir Steuart, 117, 263 Tono-Bungay, 96, 97–8 Winship, E. R., 235 Wesley, Samuel Sebastian, 148, 181 Wood, Charles, 34–5, 38, 93 Whistler, James Abbot McNeill, 68 Wood, Sir Henry, 84, 127, 254, 257, 259, White [Whyte], Robert, 74 283, 284 White, Maude Valérie, 109–11, 112, 113, 115 Worcester Whitman, Walt, 59, 63, 64, 66, 93, 95, 118, 124, Worcester Festival, 65, 123, 124, 127, 132, 129, 136, 244, 276, 277 291; See also Three Choirs Festival ‘Whispers of Heavenly Death’, 46, 118 Wordsworth, William, 73 Whittaker, W. G., 74 Wright, Kenneth, 264 Whittall, Arnold, 208 Wicksteed, Joseph, 164 Yale University, 245, 295