Musical Borrowing
An Annotated Bibliography

Individual record

[+] Vaughan Williams, Ralph. "Arnold Bax (1883-1953)." In National Music and Other Essays, ed. Michael Kennedy, 243-44. 2nd ed. London and New York: Oxford University Press, 1987.

Bax and Vaughan Williams were friends and supported and helped each other musically. In a conversation about borrowed pieces, Bax is said to have noted that all of Vaughan Williams's "best sellers are not his own." An editor's note points out that Vaughan Williams quoted Bax's Third Symphony in his Piano Concerto.

Works: Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on Christmas Carols (244), Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis (244), Piano Concerto (244).

Index Classifications: 1900s

Contributed by: Rob Lamborn



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