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This study score marks the first publication of a previously little-known early work for chamber orchestra by Vaughan Williams. The score has been edited by James Francis Brown and includes an introduction by the editor.
Info autore
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.
Riassunto
This study score marks the first publication of a previously little-known early work for chamber orchestra by Vaughan Williams. He started composing Harnham Down in 1904, completing the work in 1907. Over four decades later Vaughan Williams recalled the main theme of the work in his Oxford Elegy, which sets the Matthew Arnold poem (he Scholar Gypsy) that was prefaced in the original score to Harnham Down. The score has been edited by James Francis Brown and includes an introduction by the editor.
Testo aggiuntivo
. . . contains much to warm the cockles as well as many a tantalising glimpse of the fully characteristic masterpieces which were shortly to come.
