Part 1. 'Who wants the English composer?' : forging a path, 1890-1925. 1. The composer and society : family, politics, nation / Julian Onderdonk ; 2. Vaughan Williams's musical apprenticeship / Byron Adams ; 3. Becoming a national composer : critical reception to c. 1925 / Aidan J. Thomson
Part 2. Works by genre. 4. History and geography : the early orchestral works and the first three symphonies / Alain Frogley ; 5. The songs and shorter secular choral works / Sophie Fuller ; 6. 'An Englishman and a democrat' : Vaughan Williams, large choral works, and the British festival tradition / Charles Edward McGuire ; 7. Folksong arrangements, hymn tunes, and church music / Julian Onderdonk ; 8. Music for stage and film / Eric Saylor ; 9. Chamber music and works for soloist with orchestra / Christopher Mark ; 10. The later symphonies / Julian Horton
Part 3. Activism, reception, and influence. 11. The public figure : Vaughan Williams as writier and activist / David Manning ; 12. Vaughan Williams, Boult, and the BBC / Jenny Doctor ; 13. Fluctuations in the response to the music of Ralph Vaughan Williams / Michael Kennedy ; 14. Vaughan Williams and his successors : composers' forum / Peter Maxwell Davies, Piers Hellawell, Nicola LeFanu, and Anthony Payne in conversation with Aidan J. Thomson.
