An Oxford Elegy

Notenblätter

40 Seiten

1952 | Vocal score
Oxford University Press
978-0-19-339205-2 (ISBN)

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for narrator, SATB chorus and chamber or string orchestra
Orchestal scores and parts and study scores are available on hire.

for narrator, SATB chorus and chamber or string orchestra
An Oxford Elegy combines adapted versions of The Scholar Gypsy and Thyrsis by Victorian poet Matthew Arnold. It conveys the story of an Oxford scholar who abandons his friends and studies to live in the countryside surrounding the city as a gypsy. The work is unusual in the fact that the text is largely spoken by a narrator, with the chorus providing mostly wordless accompaniment. The result is a highly atmospheric and evocative work that combines pastoral simplicity with darker, more melancholic passages. Scores and parts for the string and chamber orchestra accompaniments are available on hire.

Ralph Vaughan Williams, born in Gloucestershire on 12 October 1872, read History at Cambridge and went to the Royal College of Music where his teachers were Parry, Wood, and Stanford. Vaughan Williams believed in the value of music education and wrote practical competition pieces, serviceable church music, and with the 49th Parallel (1940-41) he found a new outlet in writing for film. His profoundly disturbing Symphony No.6 (1948) received international acclaim with more than a hundred performances in a little over two years. His great sensitivity to the 20th-century human condition, his flexibility in writing for all levels of music making, and his unquestionably great imagination combine to make him one of the key figures in 20th century music. Ralph Vaughan Williams had a long association with Oxford University Press; over 200 publications are available in the Oxford catalogue.

Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	177 x 253 mm
Gewicht	99 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik
ISBN-10	0-19-339205-4 / 0193392054
ISBN-13	978-0-19-339205-2 / 9780193392052
Zustand	Neuware