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Ralph Vaughan Williams and the pastoral mode
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Compositional Techniques in Hodie by Ralph Vaughan Williams
Hodie (This day) is Vaughan Williams's last large choral work. It is important because Vaughan Williams used not only complicated and innovative compositional techniques but also the largest instrumentation among his choral-orchestral compositions. It gives a challenging opportunity for composers …
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A Critical Analysis of “On Wenlock Edge” by Ralph Vaughan Williams
… at hand, the song cycle, "On Wenlock Edge," by Ralph Vaughan Williams. The study will include a brief summary of the life of Vaughan Williams, pertinent statements about his music, a general analysis of the entire composition and a detailed analysis of two songs from the cycle. The two songs …
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Ralph Vaughan Williams' Sea Symphony: formal structures and analyses informed by poetry
Ralph Vaughan Williams’ Sea Symphony has become standard choral/orchestral repertoire. Written between 1903-1910, the premier of this work occurred during the Leeds Festival on October 12, 1910. This was largest work Vaughan Williams had composed at that time. For the text of this large work, …
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The Late Unaccompanied Choral works of Ralph Vaughan Williams: A Conductor's Analysis and Performance Guide
… the unaccompanied choral works composed by Ralph Vaughan Williams between the years 1945 and 1958. Eighteen individual pieces are discussed, including three motets, two chorales, five part songs, and eight folk song arrangements. Analytical charts mapping the form, phrase structure, and …
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Aspects of national identity in the art songs of Ralph Vaughan Williams before the Great War
… explores how the art songs of English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) composed before the Great War expressed the composer’s vision of “Englishness” or “English national identity”. These terms can be defined as the popular national consciousness of the English people. It is something …
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OLD BECOMING NEW AGAIN: A FORM-FUNCTION AND NARRATIVE ANALYSIS OF RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS’ 'FANTASIA ON A THEME OF THOMAS TALLIS'
<p>Ralph Vaughan Williams, a leading figure in the early twentieth-century movement to preserve traditional English music, composed <em>Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis</em> as a tribute to his love of Tudor music and English folksong. The piece is based on a psalm setting by Thomas Tallis, …
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Graduate Recital, Clarinet
… Strauss, Six Studies in English Folksong by Ralph Vaughan Williams, and Clarinet Concerto by Aaron Copland.
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Repertoire Selection Practices of Class B and C Illinois High School Bands
… T. Smith (n = 29); Flourish for Wind Band, Ralph Vaughan Williams (n = 26); The Light Eternal, James Swearingen (n = 26); English Folk Song Suite, Ralph Vaughan Williams (n = 24); Salvation is Created, Tschesnekoff/Houseknecht (n = 23); A Christmas Festival, Leroy Anderson (n = 23); Amparito …
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Interrogating Music-Historical Narratives Through Ralph Vaughan Williams's Five Mystical Songs
<p>Although Ralph Vaughan Williams has remained an influential and well-liked composer throughout most decades since his death, the amount and specificity of scholarly writing about his work has been meager, and only during recent decades has it increased. One reason that Vaughan Williams has …
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MUSIC OF THE BRITISH ISLES: AN EXPLORATION OF MUSIC WRITTEN FOR THE VIOLIN BY COMPOSERS FROM ENGLAND, IRELAND, AND SCOTLAND DURING THE ROMANTIC ERA
… Ethel Smyth, Edward Elgar, Michele Esposito, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Charles Villiers Stanford, Ina Boyle, John B. McEwen, Alexander Mackenzie, and Alfred Moffat. In highlighting the particularly unique and creative aspects of each composers’ compositional aesthetic, …
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Vox profundis : the development of the tuba as a solo instrument since 1954
… genesis to one work; the Concerto in F minor by Ralph Vaughan-Williams, written in 1954. Since that date there has been a veritable explosion of original and arranged works for the tuba, with orchestra, brass and wind band as well as in jazz and othercombinations. Inextricably linked to …
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A justification for the study of folk song settings, or the arrangement as a valid composition
… (1732-1809), Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827), Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958), and Benjamin Britten (1913-1976). These composers found vivid inspiration and a certain amount of success by setting folk songs as art music, but a survey of available scholarship centering on their works in most …
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Violin and voice as partners in three early twentieth-century English works for voice and violin.
… (1874-1934), Rebecca Clarke (1886-1979), and Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) each wrote works for violin and voice. Holst's Four Songs for Voice and Violin, Op. 35 (1917), Vaughan Williams' Along the Field, Eight Housman Songs for Voice and Violin (1927, revised 1954), and Clarke's Three …
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A study of English-language sacred solo literature by selected twentieth-century composers
… contributors to the English art song repertory: Ralph Vaughan Williams, Gustav Holst, Alec Rowley, Gerald Finzi, Michael Head, Benjamin Britten, and Edmund Rubbra. Church music composers are represented by five composers who have composed sacred solo literature primarily for the church soloist, …
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Folk Influences of Aaron Copland and Britten
… music, including the settings of Percy Grainger, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Roger Quilter, Aaron Copland and Benjamin Britten, assisted in creating new national identities in the world of classical music during the twentieth century, especially in the young United States and the long-established …