Download or read book Vaughan Williams's Ninth Symphony written by Alain Frogley and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2001 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most crucially, however, the sketches reveal an underlying programme, centred on the theme of innocent sacrifice and drawing on Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Stonehenge, and Salisbury Cathedral. Vaughan Williams's new musical path in the symphony, it emerges, was closely allied to the continuing evolution of his visionary agnosticism."--Jacket.