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Williams, Ralph Vaughan: Five Variants On 'Dives And Lazarus'

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Besetzung: Streichorchester
Anzahl der Seiten: 20 Seiten
Gewicht: 0.098 kg
Erscheinungsjahr: 1940
Verlag: Oxford University Press
Artikelnummer: OUP9780193690806
Verlagsnummer: 9780193690806
ISMN: 9780193690806

Vaughan Williams fist encountered the old English folk song&nbsp,Dives and Lazarus&nbsp,when he was 21, and here presents five variants that are, in his own words, 'not exact replicas of traditional tunes but ratherreminiscences of various versions in my own collection and those of others'. The work was premiered in Carnegie Hall as part of the 1939 New York World's Fair, and is a wonderful example of the sumptuous string textures and modaltonalities that have become the composer's t

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