Constructing Englishness in music: national character and the reception of Ralph Vaughan Williams / Alain Frogley -- Coming of age: the earliest orchestral music of Ralph Vaughan Williams / Michael Vaillancourt -- Vaughan Williams, Tallis, and the phantasy principle / Anthony Pople -- Vaughan Williams, Germany, and the German tradition: a view from the letters / Hugh Cobbe -- Scripture, church, and culture: biblical texts in the works of Ralph Vaughan Williams / Byron Adams -- Vaughan Williams's folksong transcriptions: a case of idealization? / Julian Onderdonk -- Vaughan Williams and British wartime cinema / Jeffrey Richards -- Rhythm in the symphonies: a preliminary investigation / Lionel Pike -- 'Symphony in D major' : models and mutations / Arnold Whittall -- The place of the Eighth among Vaughan Williams's symphonies / Oliver Neighbour.