Williams, Ralph Vaughan: Job, A Masque For Dancing
pocket score
The one-act ballet ,Job ,has been described as one of Vaughan Williams's mightiest achievements. It is a work which, in a full production, combines painting, literature, music, and dance. The work was inspired byWilliam Blake's ,Illustrations of the Book of Job, and includes quotations from the King James Bible.
The result is a musical masterpiece, combining the ancient and the modern: Vaughan Williams's earlier style is inevidence, including tranquil pastoral melodies, but