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R. Vaughan Williams - Job: A Masque for Dancing

  • Text
  • Orchestra
  • Ballet
  • Rushton
  • Job
  • Williams
  • Oxford
  • Oup
The one-act ballet Job 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 by William Blake's 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 in evidence, including tranquil pastoral melodies, but the work also anticipates the composer's later style. This new, scholarly edition, edited by Julian Rushton, will replace the existing OUP edition from 1934, and includes detailed preliminary matter, comprising a preface, sources and editorial method, and detailed textual notes.

109 Picc. 97 Altar Dance

109 Picc. 97 Altar Dance Curtain rises. Enter (on earth) young men and women playing on instruments; others bring stones and build an altar. Others decorate the altar with flowers (see Blake XXI). But Job must not play on an instrument himself. Allegretto tranquillo (2 beats) (q. = 76) 6 8 6 8 6 8 6 8 6 8 6 8 6 8 6 8 6 8 6 8 6 8 6 8 6 8 6 8 6 8 6 8 6 8 6 8 6 8 6 8 6 8 6 8 6 8 6 8 6 8 6 8 take Fl. 3 Fl. 1 2 Ob. 1 2 a 2 2 p cantabile p C.A. Cl. (Bb) 1 2 3 p cantabile a 2 Cl. (Bb) 3 ad lib. p cantabile p cantabile Bsn. 1 2 for online perusal only a 2 p Cbsn. Hrn. (F) Tpt. (Bb) 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 Tbn. 1 2 3 Tba. Timp. Perc. Hp. 1 f pp Hp. 2 f p Vln. I Vln. II Vla. Vcl. Cb. div. Allegretto tranquillo (2 beats) (q. = 76) fppp fppp div. fppp div. fppp

110 Fl. 1 2 106 a 2 p cantabile 48 Job blesses the altar (see Blake XVIII). cantabile 3 p cantabile cantabile Ob. 1 2 (2) p cantabile p C.A. Cl. (Bb) 1 2 (a 2) p p cantabile p cantabile p cantabile Bsn. 1 2 Cbsn. Hrn. (F) 1 2 3 4 for online perusal only p Tbn. 1 2 3 Tba. Timp. Perc. Hp. 1 Hp. 2 Vln. I p 48 2 4 unis. sul G Vln. II 2 4 mp cantabile sul G Vla. mp cantabile unis. sul G mp cantabile Vcl. Cb. 2 4 pp p pizz. p