R. Vaughan Williams - Job: A Masque for Dancing

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considered my servant Job?’. Title as printed full score, but below the composer’s name, ‘Pianoforte arrangement by Vally Lasker / Price 5/− / Oxford University Press / Aeolian Hall New Bond Street London W.1 / New York—Carl Fischer Inc. / Leipzig—Friedrich Hofmeister / Amsterdam—Broekmans & Van Poppel’. Otherwise the same as printed full score with synopsis and directions printed within the score. Theatre Orchestra Reduction Title: ‘Job / (A Masque for Dancing) / Ralph Vaughan Williams / Scored for Theatre Orchestra by Constant Lambert.’ In MS (copyist’s hand). The reduction was made prior to the publication of the full score and presumably derives from the autograph, but has the same number of bars as the published score, suggesting that cuts in the autograph were made prior to the first staged performances (see Preface). The only exception is that the repeated bars in Scene VI are rewritten in full. The small orchestra consists of two flutes (2nd also piccolo), one oboe, two clarinets, optional alto saxophone, one bassoon, two horns, two trumpets, one trombone, percussion (timpani, glockenspiel, triangle, cymbals, side drum, bass drum, and tam-tam); and strings. The reduction lacks all stage directions, merely numbering the scenes. At the end of Scene II: ‘to p.103’, i.e., cut to Scene VII; it is not known for what occasion this cut was made. In Scene VII, bar 20, Lambert’s score includes a harp chord; otherwise the music is exactly the same as the published score. Assuming this was included in performances, it may have had the composer’s sanction, so it is entered in this edition in small notes. for online perusal only ix

textual notes Abbreviations aut CL ps b., bb. n., nn. autograph full score (holograph) score for reduced orchestra by Constant Lambert printed full score bar(s) note(s) Pitches are referred to as follows: ? w w #w & bw nw C2 C3 B#3 Cb4 C4 C5 C6 w w 57/35–6 Tba.: no stacc. dots in ps 57/36 Cbsn.: no stacc. dot on n. 1 in ps 58/40, 42 Vla.: ps has redundant p 59/51, 56 Hrn.: ‘naturale’ in aut; conductor added ‘open’ in 56 62/66 Timp.: aut has redundant ff 68/89–90 Fl. 1: in ps, the slur continues to b. 90, n. 1, without a tie; Fl. 1 then has rests for the remainder of b. 90 68/89–90 Fl. 2: one slur to the end of b. 90 in ps 68/90 Fl.: in ps, the last two beats appear in Fl. 2 only, but there are double stems in aut, implying unison for online perusal only Scene I 1/4–5 Hp.: slurs onto b.5, beat 1 in ps 2/7–8 Bsn 2: aut has a separate slur 3/12 Cl. 2: aut lacks slur 3/13 Hrn. 1: aut lacks slur 4/16 Hrn.: ‘4th horn obbligato’ in left margin in aut 9/74 Vln. I: &b b ∑ Œ ˙ œ 10/75 Fl.: aut slurs from n. 8; ps corresponds to other wind instruments 10/77–8 the stage direction is one bar later in ps than in aut, as the result of a page turn 11/79 Cb.: pp marking in ps 12/82 A.Fl.: lower slur does not appear in aut 12/83 Tempo: in aut, originally L’istesso tempo, altered to Doppio più lento 14/109–10 Ww., Hrn., Tbn.: no cresc. hairpin (109) or p sub. (110) in aut 20/156 Picc.: n. 2 is F5 in ps; E5 is clear in aut Scene II 29/48 Vln. I, II: no pp marking in aut 32/65–6 Hrn., Tpt. 1, 2: aut lacks stacc. wedges 34/87–9 Bsn. 2: B. Cl. cue does not appear in ps 35/97 Hrn., Tpt.: pesante in aut and CL 36/106 Vla., Vcl., Cb.: no slurs in aut Scene III 45/21 Ob. 1: no p marking in aut Scene IV 56/30 Tam-tam: aut has ‘or Gong’, crossed out in pencil Scene V 70/17 Hrn. 1, 3: no pp in aut 71/20–2 Cb.: aut originally continues as previous bars, then notes deleted and replaced by rests 71/27–31 Vln. II: ‘col I’ crossed out in red in aut 73/37–9 Tempo: ‘Rit.’ in blue crayon, crossed out in pencil 73/40 Tempo: ‘L’istesso’ in CL Scene VI 76/11 Vln. II, Vla., Vcl.: marked tenuto in aut and ps, though still pizz. 77/21 Vla.: upper n. 4 Bb not Cb in ps 78/22–4 Vln. I: there is no ‘pizz.’ marking in aut or ps, but it does appear in CL (and in Boult’s score) 83/49–50 Cl. 1: in ps, slur from b. 50, n. 2 (F5); adjusted to correspond with Fl. 84/54 B.D.: no pp marking in aut 84/56–7 Fl., Ob., Cl.: ps has fp in b. 56 and a short dim. hairpin in b. 57; aut reading preferred 85/60–61 Tpt. 1: the long slur is missing in aut; adjusted to correspond with Hrn. 85/65 Cbsn: no slurs in aut 86/69 Fl. 2: n. 1 is missing in ps 88/79 Vln. I: upper n. 2 is B§ in ps 88/81–5 Picc., Fl., Cbsn., Tbn., Tba.: slurs extend to n. 1 of subsequent bars in ps 88/82–3 C.A.: no slurs in aut Scene VII 90/3 Vln. Solo: ps lacks longer slur 94/65–7 Hrn.: no slurs in ps Scene VIII 103/49 Vln. I, II: no slurs in ps x