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Williams, Ralph Vaughan: Job, A Masque For Dancing

pocket score

Setting: Orchestra
Length: 144 pages
Weight: 0.354 kg
Published: 2018
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Item number: OUP9780193514324
Other reference: 9780193514324
ISMN: 9780193514324

The one-act ballet&nbsp,Job&nbsp,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&nbsp,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

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