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[17] [8] [18] Each instrument is given its different key signature in the score, though Vaughan Williams told Holst that the three keys were "more seen by the eye than felt by the ear". [2] This remark alludes to Holst's careful avoidance of dissonance wherever possible in favour of what has been called "a non-functional triadic harmony" [ 19 ...
Vaughan Williams c. 1920. Ralph Vaughan Williams OM (/ ˌ r eɪ f v ɔː n ˈ w ɪ l j ə m z / ⓘ RAYF vawn WIL-yəmz; [1] [n 1] 12 October 1872 – 26 August 1958) was an English composer. . His works include operas, ballets, chamber music, secular and religious vocal pieces and orchestral compositions including nine symphonies, written over sixty yea
The work is scored for a large orchestra. Holst's fellow composer Ralph Vaughan Williams wrote in 1920, "Holst uses a very large orchestra in the Planets not to make his score look impressive, but because he needs the extra tone colour and knows how to use it". [25] The score calls for the following instrumentation.
During Holst's earlier years as a composer, he took interest (as did many composers at the time) in folk music, and wrote many pieces based on folk tunes. He provided piano accompaniments in 1909 to 16 songs collected by George Gardiner for publication in 'Folk Songs from Hampshire ', a volume in Cecil Sharp 's County Songs series. [ 1 ]
Vaughan Williams noted on his score that "My Bonny Boy" was taken from the book English County Songs [9] while the "Green Bushes" melody seems to have been adapted from two versions collected by Cecil Sharp, one in the Dorian and one in the Mixolydian mode, the modal ambiguity being reflected in the composer's harmonization.
Gustav Holst and Ralph Vaughan Williams walking in the Malvern Hills, September 1921. The English Pastoral School, [1] sometimes called the English Nationalist School [2] or by detractors the Cow Pat School, [3] is an informal designation for a group of English composers of classical music working during the early to mid 20th century, who sought to build a distinctively English style of music ...
In his final decade, Vaughan Williams revisited the folk-song with two large-scale choral anthologies: the 1949 Folk Songs of the Four Seasons, and The First Nowell in 1958. [7] Roy Palmer commented: "On the whole, Vaughan Williams was more interested in the song than the singer, in the melody than the message." He often failed to record the ...
"The Dance of the Young Professionals ... Ralph Vaughan Williams "Alas, My Love, You Do Me Wrong" ... [206] [207] Gustav Holst "Second Suite in F for Military Band ...