Best Vaughan-williams Books
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1. Songs of Travel: Low Voice New Edition with Online Audio of Piano Accompaniments (CHANT)
Author: by Ralph Vaughan Williams
Published at: Boosey & Hawkes; Pap/Psc edition (August 1, 2014)
ISBN: 978-1480386471
(Boosey & Hawkes Voice). A new, easier to read music engraving of these perennial voice studio favorites with recorded audio accompaniment for practice and historical introduction. Contents: The Vagabond * Let Beauty Awake * The Roadide Fire * Youth and Love * In Dreams * The Infinite Shining Heavens * Whither Must I Wander?
Bright is the Ring of Words * I Have Trod the Upward and the Downward Slope
2. Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending (Romance for Violin and Orchestra) (VIOLON)
Author: by Ralph Vaughan Williams
Published at: Oxford University Press; 1st edition (May 1, 2008)
ISBN: 978-0193360099
For solo violin and orchestra or pianoThis serene romance is one of Vaughan Williams’s most enduring popular works. Taking its title from a poem by George Meredith, the music perfectly evokes the lark’s ‘chirrup, whistle, slur, and shake’. This beautifully presented new edition of the violin and piano score includes a preface by Michael Kennedy.
3. Songs of Travel: High Voice New Edition with Online Audio of Piano Accompaniments (CHANT)
Author: by Ralph Vaughan Williams
Published at: Boosey & Hawkes; Pap/Com Ne edition (August 1, 2014)
ISBN: 978-1480386464
(Boosey & Hawkes Voice). A new, easier to read music engraving of these perennial voice studio favorites with recorded audio accompaniment for practice and historical introduction. Contents: The Vagabond * Let Beauty Awake * The Roadside Fire * Youth and Love * In Dreams * The Infinite Shining Heavens * Whither Must I Wander?
Bright Is the Ring of Words * I Have Trod the Upward and the Downward Slope
4. Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis and Other Works for Orchestra in Full Score (Dover Music Scores)
Author: by Ralph Vaughan Williams
Published at: Dover Publications (March 18, 2015)
ISBN: 978-0486408590
The music of English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams (18721958) continues to enjoy great popularity around the world. Indeed, the title piece of this collection is one of the most widely performed and recorded compositions in the modern era. Now the complete score of the Fantasia, which was inspired by a melody that originated with the Renaissance-era composer Thomas Tallis, is available in this inexpensive collection.
Additional selections include the frequently performed Norfolk Rhapsody No. 1, Overture to “The Wasps,” and the Fantasia on Christmas Carols. Highlighted by the great Tallis piece, this excellent and representative collection is reproduced from authoritative early editions and offers an important addition to the score collections of all lovers of fine music.
5. Fantasia on a Theme By Thomas Tallis
Author: by Ralph Vaughan Williams
Published at: Serenissima Music, Incorporated (December 10, 2012)
ISBN: 978-1608740475
Vaughan Williams’ masterpiece for string orchestra was given its premiere on September 6th, 1910 at the Three Choirs Festival in Gloucester Cathedral with the London Symphony Orchestra under the composer’s direction. It was an immediate success, but the composer revised the piece twice (1913 and 1919) before it’s first publication in 1921.
The Phrygian-mode Tallis melody upon which the work is based originally appeared in Archbishop Parker’s Psalter of 1567 with the text “Why fum’th in fight the Gentiles spite.” This newly engraved and edited score, based upon the 1921 Curwen score, has a vastly improved layout designed for ease of study and performance.
6. Concerto for oboe and strings: Reduction for oboe and piano (HAUTBOIS)
Author: by Michael Mullinar
Published at: Oxford University Press; 1st edition (March 31, 1969)
ISBN: 978-0193692312
A capricious, lyrical, and nostalgic work, it is often considered to be Vaughan Williams’ most successful work in this form. The first movement is pastoral in feeling, The second movement begins with a minuet, light and staccato in nature with a middle section featuring a musette’s characteristic long-held drone played by the oboe with the melody in the strings.
The third movement is a scherzo and two trios. Orchestral materials are available on rental.
7. A London Symphony in Full Score
Author: by Ralph Vaughan Williams
Published at: Dover Publications; Illustrated edition (October 17, 2013)
ISBN: 978-0486292632
An outstanding leader in England’s twentieth-century musical renaissance, Ralph Vaughan Williams (18721958) sought inspiration in English folk song and in the sights and sounds of his native country. A London Symphony, the composer’s most colorful orchestral work and his own favorite among his first six symphonies, features echoes of street sounds and cries, including a Cockney accordion and the chimes of Big Ben.
Nevertheless, Vaughan Williams wrote of this symphony, “The music is intended to be self-expressive and must stand or fall as ‘absolute music.'” Its successful fulfillment of his ambition has been widely agreed upon since its 1914 debut. The composer revised the music in subsequent years, but in 1951 while reworking the orchestration of his other symphonies he left this work alone, perhaps reluctant to tamper further with its profound originality, rich and picturesque scoring, and balanced structure.
Musicians and music lovers will appreciate this inexpensive and authoritative edition of Vaughan Williams’ masterpiece.
8. Five Mystical Songs: Vocal score
Author: by Ralph Vaughan Williams
Published at: Serenissima Music, Incorporated (December 10, 2012)
ISBN: 978-1608740482
Vaughan Williams’ setting of poems from George Herbert’s 1633 collection, “The Temple: Sacred Poems” was done between 1906 and 1911. The premiere was given under the composer’s direction on September 14, 1911 at the Three Choirs Festival in Worcester. This new edition of the vocal score by Richard Sargeant has been prepared with chorus’ needs in mind.
The layout is vastly improved over the original 1911 score, with the vocal staves at full size while the piano reduction is produced in smaller type. Printed in a convenient, easy to hold size which fits comfortably in any choir folder – and enables the lowest priced score on the market.
9. Hodie: Vocal score (CHANT)
Author: by Ralph Vaughan Williams
Published at: Oxford University Press; 1st edition (March 31, 1969)
ISBN: 978-0193395510
A cantata for soprano, tenor, and baritone soloists, SATB choir, and orchestraAll material is also available on hire.
10. Concerto for Bass Tuba & Orchestra: Arrangement for Tuba & Piano
Author: by Ralph Vaughan Williams
Published at: Oxford University Press; 1st edition (March 31, 1969)
ISBN: 978-0193694552
For tuba and pianoThis piano reduction provides the perfect accompaniment to the most celebrated orchestral work for tuba.
11. Vaughan Williams Studies (Cambridge Composer Studies)
Author: by Alain Frogley
Published at: Cambridge University Press; 1st edition (October 30, 2008)
ISBN: 978-0521088640
Despite Vaughan Williams’ seminal importance in British music, international stature as a symphonist, and wider significance as an icon of Englishness, very little new research on his life or music has been published since the mid-1960s. The ten essays presented here examine diverse subjects such as the place of Vaughan Williams in the construction of English national identity in this century, the role of rhythm in his symphonies, music for propaganda films, and his unpublished early orchestral pieces; major works such as the Tallis Fantasia and the Fifth Symphony are analyzed in depth.
12. Collected Songs Volume 1 (CHANT)
Author: by Ralph Vaughan Williams
Published at: Oxford University Press (August 5, 1993)
ISBN: 978-0193459274
This three volume series comprises the bulk of the solo songs which Vaughan Williams published with Oxford University Press. The songs span his whole long career; from 1896 to 1958. The majority are suitable for medium voice. Contents: Three songs from Shakespeare [Take, O take; When icicles hang by the wall; Orpheus with his lute]; Three poems by Walt Whitman [Nocturne; A clear midnight; Joy, shipmate, joy!
]; Greensleeves; Four last songs [Procris; Tired; Hands, eyes and heart; Menelaus].
13. A Sea Symphony – Study score: Symphony No. 1
Author: by Ralph Vaughan Williams
Published at: Petrucci Library Press (December 10, 2012)
ISBN: 978-1608740390
Vaughan Williams conducted the first performance of his great choral symphony on his 38th birthday, October 12, 1910, at the Leeds Music Festival. The work was well received and has been in the symphonic repertoire ever since. The text was taken by the composer from Walt Whitman’s “Leaves of Grass”. This digitally restored score, the first available at a reasonable price, is reissued from the one first published by Stainer and Bell of London around 1920.
Unlike so many on-demand scores now available, this one comes with all the pages and the images have been checked to make sure it is readable. As with all PLP scores a percentage of each sale is donated to the amazing online archive of free music scores and recordings, IMSLP – Petrucci Music Library.
