{"id":3966,"date":"2016-03-22T21:04:12","date_gmt":"2016-03-22T10:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emotemuse.com\/g\/?p=3966"},"modified":"2016-03-22T21:04:12","modified_gmt":"2016-03-22T10:04:12","slug":"vaughan-williams-on-sense-of-musical-citizenship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=3966","title":{"rendered":"Vaughan Williams on sense of musical citizenship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vaughan Williams wrote a series of articles for the Royal College of Music magazine entitled &#8220;Who Wants the English Composer?&#8221;. In these, he expresses his advocacy for an exploration of the English musical style:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We English composers are always saying, &#8220;Here are Wagner, Brahms, Grieg, Tchaikovsky, what fine fellows they are, let us try and do something like this at home&#8221;, quite forgetting that the result will not sound at all like &#8220;this&#8221; when transplanted from its natural soil. It is all very well to catch the prophet&#8217;s robe, but the mantle of Elijah is apt, like all second-hand clothing, to prove the worst of misfits.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Cited in: Holmes, Paul (1997) <em>Vaughan Williams<\/em>. London: Omnibus Press, p.47.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vaughan Williams wrote a series of articles for the Royal College of Music magazine entitled &#8220;Who Wants the English Composer?&#8221;. In these, he expresses his advocacy for an exploration of the English musical style: We English composers are always saying, &#8220;Here are Wagner, Brahms, Grieg, Tchaikovsky, what fine fellows they are, let us try and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[666,667,665],"class_list":["post-3966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-style","tag-english-music-style","tag-nationalism","tag-vaughan-williams"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3966"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3967,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3966\/revisions\/3967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}