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