Yi-Fan Chen

British Art Song Composition, Performance, and Pedagogy and the Articulation of National Identity in Early Twentieth Century England

English song in the early 1900s was tightly associated with notions of Britishness in the wider context of the development of British art song. The paper, focusing on Ralph Vaughan Williams' On Wenlock Edge, explores the parts played by poetry, landscape, folk influence, modal writing and chamber texture in the creatio...