Musical Borrowing
An Annotated Bibliography

Individual record

[+] Vaughan Williams, Ralph. "A Musical Autobiography." In National Music and Other Essays, ed. Michael Kennedy, 177-94. 2nd ed. London and New York: Oxford University Press, 1987.

Vaughan Williams was influenced by a number of composers as mentors and contemporaries, and mentions many of them in this essay. He had no conscience about musical borrowing--which he calls "cribbing"--and engaged in it quite frequently.

Works: Vaughan Williams: A London Symphony (188), "Satan's Dance" from Job (190), Symphony in F Minor, A Sea Symphony (188, 190).

Index Classifications: 1900s

Contributed by: Rob Lamborn



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