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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.

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Job a masque for dancing for online perusal only

orchestration 3 Flutes (third doubling Alto Flute and Piccolo) 2 Oboes Cor Anglais 2 Clarinets (and third ad lib., doubling Bass Clarinet) Bass Clarinet Alto Saxophone (May be doubled by Bass Clarinet, the Bass Clarinet notes being cued to the second Clarinet. When the Saxophone is doubled by the Bass Clarinet, the part should be omitted until Scene VI.) 2 Bassoons Contrabassoon 4 Horns 3 Trumpets 3 Trombones Tuba Timpani Percussion (3 players: Triangle, Cymbals, Side Drum, Bass Drum, Xylophone, Glockenspiel, Tam-tam) 2 Harps Organ Strings for online perusal only The following instruments are ad lib., and where necessary are cued into another part 3rd Flute (second Flute must then double Piccolo) Alto Flute 2nd Oboe 3rd Clarinet Bass Clarinet Alto Saxophone Contrabassoon 3rd Trumpet 2nd Harp Organ Most of the percussion Duration: c.45 minutes Job was first performed as a programmatic concert work on 23 October 1930 in St Andrew’s Hall, Norwich, with the Queen’s Hall Orchestra, conducted by the composer. The first staged performance was given on 5 July 1931 in the Cambridge Theatre, London, under the auspices of the Camargo Society, in a reduced orchestration, conducted by Constant Lambert.