THE LARK ASCENDING: PEOPLE AND MUSIC IN THE LANDSCAPE OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
Book ID/图书代码： 04560019C00045
English Summary/英文概要： On a chronological journey that takes him from postwar poets and artists to the late twentieth century and the free party scene which emerged from acid house and travelling communities, Richard King explores how a country’s history and identity has been shaped by the mysterious relationship between music and nature.
The Lark Ascending, Ralph Vaughan Williams, ‘pastoral romance for orchestra’ was premiered on 14 June, 1921. Over the course of the twentieth century this piece of music, perhaps more than any other, worked its way into the collective consciousness to seemingly define a mythical concept of the English countryside: babbling brooks, skylarks, hayricks. But the birth and legacy of the composition are much more complex than this simplified pastoral vision suggests. The landscape we celebrate as unsullied and ripe with mystique is a living, working, and occasionally rancorous environment - not an unaffected idyll- that forged a nation’s musical personality, and its dissenting traditions.
From the far west of Wales to the Thames Estuary and the Suffolk shoreline, taking in Brian Eno, Kate Bush, Boards of Canada, Dylan Thomas, Gavin Bryars, Greenham Common and The Kinder Scout Mass Trespass, The Lark Ascending listens to the land and the music that emerged from it, to chart a new and surprising course through a familiar landscape.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 在本书中，作者按照时间顺序探讨了一个国家的历史和身份是如何被音乐和自然之间的神秘关系所塑造的。Ralph Vaughan Williams的田园浪漫管弦乐作品子啊1921年6月14日发布。在20世纪中，这首音乐，也许比其他任何音乐都更深入集体意识，似乎定义了英国乡村传奇概念：潺潺的小溪，云雀，干草。但这部作品的诞生和传承远比这描绘出来的简单的田园画卷复杂得多。我们所赞美的纯洁、神秘的自然景观，实则是一种活生生的、运动中的、偶尔充满敌意的环境——而不是一种不受外界影响的田园生活——它塑造了一个国家的音乐个性和不同的传统。从威尔士西部到泰晤士河口和萨福克郡的海岸线，读者可通过本书仔细聆听这片土地及其产生的音乐，在熟悉的风景中品味全新而令人赞叹的音乐之旅。（LYR）
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About the Author/作者介绍： RICHARD KING，来自格温特郡的纽波特，在过去的18年里，他一直生活在波伊斯郡的拉多诺斯郡。著有《原始摇滚人》，曾入围戈登•伯恩奖(Gordon Burn Prize)，以及《现在是多久？》，均由Faber出版。
RICHARD KING Originally from Newport, Gwent, for the last eighteen years Richard King has lived in the hill farming country of Radnosrshire, Powys. He is the author of Original Rockers, which was shortlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize, and How Soon Is Now?, both published by Faber.
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