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Oh, What a Musical War! A Retrospective after the First World War Centenary
Journal of the Royal Musical Association Pub Date : 2021-03-22 , DOI: 10.1017/rma.2021.5
MICHELLE MEINHART

As Emma Hanna notes in the opening line of Sounds of War, ‘In parallel with studies of the poetry of the Great War, Britain’s musical history of the conflict has focused on a small group of elite composers’ (p. 1). Indeed, musical interest in the war has tended to focus on the likes of Edward Elgar, Ralph Vaughan Williams and George Butterworth just as literary enquiry has traditionally centred on Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon and Robert Graves. However, as William Brooks, Christina Bashford and Gayle Magee write, ‘There are many stories that could be told [about the war], and the vast bulk of them concern ordinary people, not statesmen or generals or celebrated composers. To understand the war, surely, we need do no more than to give these voices a hearing.’1



中文翻译:

哦,这是一场音乐战争!第一次世界大战一百周年回顾

正如 Emma Hanna 在《战争声》的开篇中所指出的那样,“在研究一战诗歌的同时,英国的冲突音乐史也集中在一小群精英作曲家身上”(第 1 页)。事实上,战争中的音乐兴趣往往集中在爱德华·埃尔加、拉尔夫·沃恩·威廉姆斯和乔治·巴特沃斯等人身上,就像文学研究传统上集中在威尔弗雷德·欧文、齐格弗里德·沙逊和罗伯特·格雷夫斯身上一样。然而,正如威廉·布鲁克斯、克里斯蒂娜·巴什福德和盖尔·马吉所写,“[关于战争]有很多故事可以讲述,其中绝大多数与普通人有关,而不是政治家、将军或著名作曲家。当然,要了解战争,我们只需要倾听这些声音。1

更新日期:2021-03-22
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