Prayer to the Father of Heaven: Vocal score

ISBN 10: 0195366107 ISBN 13: 9780195366105

Casa editrice: OUP Oxford, 1990

Riassunto

In this unaccompanied motet Vaughan Williams sets a text by the English poet John Skelton (c.1463-1529). The music captures the spirituality of the text with floating choral lines and a sophisticated harmonic language, employing eerie dissonances to create a sense of otherworldliness. The work carries the following dedication: 'To the memory of my master Hubert Parry not as an attempt palely to reflect his incomparable art, but in the hope that he would have found in this motet (to use his own words) 'something characteristic'.'.

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Informazioni sull'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.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: OUP Oxford
• Data di pubblicazione: 1990
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0195366107
• ISBN 13: 9780195366105
• Rilegatura: Spartito musicale
• Numero di pagine: 12
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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