Download or read book The Choral Orchestral Works of Ralph Vaughan Williams written by Stephen Town and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-12-06 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Choral-Orchestral Works of Ralph Vaughan Williams: Autographs, Context, Discourse combines contextual knowledge, a musical commentary, an inventory of the holograph manuscripts, and a critical assessment of the opus to create substantial and meticulous examinations of Ralph Vaughan Williams’s choral-orchestral works. The contents include an equitable choice of pieces from the various stages in the life of the composer and an analysis of pieces from the various stages of Williams’s life. The earliest are taken from the pre-World War I years, when Vaughan Williams was constructing his identity as an academic and musician—Vexilla Regis (1894), Mass (1899), and A Sea Symphony (1910). The middle group are chosen from the interwar period—Sancta Civitas (1925), Benedicite (1929), Magnificat (1932), Five Tudor Portraits (1935), Dona nobis pacem (1936)—written after Vaughan Williams had found his mature voice. The last cluster—Thanksgiving for Victory (1944), Fantasia (Quasi Variazione) on the ‘Old 104’ Psalm Tune(1949), Sons of Light (1950), Hodie (1954), The Bridal Day/Epithalamion (1938/1957)—typify the works finished or revisited during the final years of the composer’s life, near the end of the Second World War and immediately before or after his second marriage (1953).
Download or read book The Making of Music written by Ralph Vaughan Williams and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1976 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph is based on four lectures which the venerable and distinguished British composer delivered at Cornell University. He explains the nature of rhythm, the relation of folk music to the composer, why we make music, the social foundations of music, and more.
Download or read book The Works of Ralph Vaughan Williams written by Michael Kennedy and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1971 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the authoritative account of Vaughan Williams's musical life-- the story of a great composer's career, and at the same time the story of music in England for over half a century. Kennedy considers the principal works in chronological order, outlining the main features of each anddiscussing details of the music's structure, often illuminating his point with a musical quotation. He also provides a good deal of biographical data, and so builds up a picture of the composer, as well as providing thumbnail sketches of many of Vaughan Williams's friends and colleagues. Kennedy'sextensive knowledge of Vaughan Williams's output also enables him to refer back and forth across the works to pick out lines of development and influence. Along with Michael Kennedy's new preface, the second edition includes a full classified list of Vaughan Williams's works.
Download or read book Some Thoughts on Beethoven s Choral Symphony with Writings on Other Musical Subjects written by Ralph Vaughan Williams and published by . This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Conductor s Guide to Choral Orchestral Works written by Jonathan D. Green and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in paperback. This innovative survey of large choral-orchestral works written between 1900 and 1972 and containing some English text examines eighty-nine works, from Elgar's Dream of Gerontius to Bernstein's Mass. For each work, the author provides a biography of the composer, complete instrumentation, text sources, editions, availability of performing materials, performance issues, discography, and bibliographies of the composer and the work. Based upon direct score study, each work has been evaluated in terms of potential performance problems, rehearsal issues, and level of difficulty for both choir and orchestra. When present, solo roles are described. The forty-nine composers represented include Samuel Barber, Arthur Bliss, Benjamin Britten, Henry Cowell, Frederick Delius, R. Nathaniel Dett, Gerald Finzi, Howard Hanson, Roy Harris, Paul Hindemith, Ulysses Kay, Constant Lambert, Peter Mennin, Gunther Schuller, William Schumann, Michael Tippett, Ralph Vaughan Williams, William Walton, and Healey Willan. Written as a field guide for conductors and anyone else involved in programming concerts for choir and orchestra, this text should prove a useful source of new repertoire ideas and an invaluable aid to rehearsal preparation. Cloth edition first published in 1994.
Download or read book A Conductor s Guide to Choral Orchestral Works written by Jonathan D. Green and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2003 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surveys large choral-orchestral works written between 1900 and 1972 that contain some English text. Green examines eighty-nine works by forty-nine composers, from Elgar's Dream of Gerontius to Bernstein's Mass.
Download or read book Beethoven s Choral Symphony written by Ralph Vaughan Williams and published by . This book was released on 1959-01-01 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Electra written by Ralph Vaughan Williams and published by Promethean Editions Limited. This book was released on with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ralph Vaughan Williams’ incidental music for Gilbert Murray’s English translation of Euripides’ Electra is edited and arranged for orchestra by Alan Tongue. Vaughan Williams was brought into the production of three Greek plays by the dancer Isadora Duncan, with the public performance taking place at London’s Royal Court Theatre on Friday 31 May 1912. A preview of the production, appearing in The Globe, remarked of Vaughan Williams’ musical settings: “they are an attempt at something new, and something which is neither German nor French. This music is no experiment in style. It would seem, rather, as though the composer had disclaimed all styles and all schools, and found direct inspiration in the material of the poet’s inspiration, and the result is something of undeniable beauty.”
Download or read book The Symphonies Of Ralph Vaughan Williams written by Elliott Schwartz and published by Da Capo Press, Incorporated. This book was released on 1982-01-21 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Vaughan Williams written by Simon Heffer and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2001 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A concise biography of the first truly English composer of the twentieth century.
Download or read book National Music written by Ralph Vaughan Williams and published by London; Toronto: Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1934 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book National Music and Other Essays written by Ralph Vaughan Williams and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1987 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by one of the greatest of English composers, this revised edition of Ralph Vaughan Williams's essays features a new introduction by Michael Kennedy plus several new essays.
Download or read book Five Mystical Songs written by Ralph Vaughan Williams and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Vaughan Williams written by James Day and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book was one of the first estimates of Vaughan Williams to appear after his death in 1958 at the age of eighty-six, while still at the height of his musical powers. It has now been extensively revised by James Day, particularly in the light of the increasing interest shown in Vaughan Williams's music by the major gramophone companies, of the important studies of the composer which have been undertaken since the book was first published, and of the gratifying revival of English folk-music among the young. The deep roots of British musical tradition, stretching back in time through the work of Purcell, Byrd, Tallis, Gibbons and many others to the masters of the early polyphony, are very evident in the work of Vaughan Williams, who was also a progressive composer in the modern idiom. His qualities of integrity, power and vision continue to be relevant. The man and his music are 'all of a piece,' as James Day shows; and those who value such qualities in the composer as a person will find them in his compositions.
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Vaughan Williams written by Alain Frogley and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-11-14 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive reassessment of this towering figure of twentieth-century music, examining works, cultural context and reception in Britain and beyond.
Download or read book R V W written by Ursula Vaughan Williams and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the unique authority of his personal papers, her intimate knowledge of the man in the last years of his life, and the imaginative, insight of a professional writer, Mrs. Vaughan Williams has drawn the portrait of a great Englishman.--Times Literary Supplement Essential reading More ... for anyone who cares deeply about the music of this great composer ... Her writing is so fluent and her expository skill so detailed and fine that the result makes one want to turn again to the music about which one has been reading ... Surely definitive ... this enthralling book is thoroughly recommended.
Download or read book The Music of Ralph Vaughan Williams written by Frank Howes and published by Franklin Classics Trade Press. This book was released on 2018-11-11 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
