The Sons of Light
Oxford University Press
978-0-19-339501-5 (ISBN)
Material is available on hire
for SATB and orchestra
This three movement work was premiered at the Royal Albert Hall in 1951 by a massed choir of 1150 school students under the direction of Sir Adrian Boult and accompanied by the London Philharmonic Orchestra. Vaughan Williams made no concession to the youth of his singers, producing a powerful work that moves between musical darkness and light. The poems are by Ursula Wood, who later became the composer's wife, and are titled 'Darkness and Light', 'The Song of the Zodiac', and 'The Messengers of Speech'. Music from the work was later adapted into the song cycle Sun, Moon, Stars, and Man.
Orchestral materials for both the original full orchestra accompaniment and a simplified orchestral accompaniment 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.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 31.3.1969 |
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| Verlagsort | Oxford |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 177 x 255 mm |
| Gewicht | 131 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik |
| ISBN-10 | 0-19-339501-0 / 0193395010 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-339501-5 / 9780193395015 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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