Ralph Vaughan Williams

Cassandra Kalinofski British Vocal Literature Ralph Vaughan Williams was a British/English composer born in Gloucestershire, England on October 12th, 1872. He was the leader of the nationalist movement for English music during the 20th century. Ralph was introduced to music very young when his aunt gave him piano lessons at 5 years old. (He started to learn to play the violin as well.) During that year, he composed a four bar piece (his first) called “ The Robin’s nest”. At the age of 8 years old

Ralph Vaughan Williams is arguably the most prominent composer among his generation and a leading composer of symphonies in the 20th century (“Ralph Vaughan Williams - Music - Oxford Bibliographies - Obo”). Vaughan William’s primary focus was on English Folksong and Elizabethan hymnody. He produced works that were popular and well-adored worldwide (“Rovi Staff”). Vaughan Williams was born in 1872 in a village called Down Ampney in Gloucestershire, England ("Ralph Vaughan Williams Biography"). His

Muni from MSM Symphonic Band with one of the talented musicians from PCSl High School, Ms. Jai Sun Song. The Manhattan School of Music Band performed a total of fives pieces such as the “Drayton Hall Esprit” by Francis McBeth, “Sea Songs” by Ralph Vaughan Williams, “With Quiet Courage” by Larry Daehn, “Noisy Wheels of Joy” by Eric Whitacre, “National Emblem” by E.E.

“Nel cor più non mi sento” by Giovanni Paisiello The composer of “Nel cor più non mi sento” is Giovanni Paisiello, an Italian opera composer born in 1740. Giovanni’s musical talent was discovered when his singing ability was revealed while at school. As a result, Giovanni was sent to the Conservatory of Dan Onofrio at Naples. While in school, he composed multiple intermezzi, which garnered enough attention to grant him the opportunity to write two operas. Giovanni’s career advanced from there, spending

According to www.talks.cam.ac.uk, “Globalization emphasises difference, promotes pluralism, and increases diversity through the accelerating circulation of a multiplicity of cultural practices. In turn, music affected these elements of globalization in significant and often unexpected ways.” In the late 2004, a series of papers (research project) on the topic of world music and globalisation became a hot topic in a conference and gradually took on a life turning onto a virtual laboratory for teaching

I decided to choose a theme for my final paper which will be related to my instrument-viola. I choose Rebecca Clarke , probably the most prominent women-composer who wrote for viola. Most of Clarke’s compositions were written in the first three decades of the twentieth century, her works was largely unknown until the 1970th. Such is the curiously small impact she made as a composer in England in her life time that the first edition of Lionel Turtis’s book “Cinderella no more” doesn’t mention her

Ralph Vaughan Williams is known as one of the most influential composers of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. It has been stated that, “Hardly a musical genre was untouched or failed to be enriched by his work…”(Connock). Although he is known for his symphonies and other works, there is much more to Williams’ life and legacy than is written in the lines of his Sea Symphony. Ralph Vaughan Williams was born on the 12th of October, 1872, in the Vicarage of Down Ampney. He showed brilliance

Symphony No. 6 in E minor by Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) is a timeless piece of orchestral film music. The sixth symphony was first debuted in public in 1948 and soon Vaughan realized the liberating effect it brought on him and helped to find more possibilities of orchestral music. The reflection of his renewed musical explorations brought a spellbound effect on the listeners and created a sensation. With more than a hundred performances in its debut year, Symphony no. 6 was arguably the most

On October 5th, the Auburn University Chamber Winds and Symphonic Winds performed a collection of pieces from different time periods including: The Classical period, the 20th century period, and the Modern period. All of the pieces, except for the last piece and the pieces that were not conducted, were conducted by either Michael Cater, Zack Deininger, Ethan Lolley, or Meghan Miller, who are all graduate conductors. The first piece performed, “Divertimento-Fanfare”, was written by Roger Zare. Zare

In 1985 the famous movie composer John Williams (Star Wars, Raiders of the Lost Ark, 1941) wrote a tuba concerto for Chester Schmitz, longtime tubist of the Boston Symphony and Pops Orchestras. The gravity of this addition to the repertoire cannot be overstated, as this piece has become a close second in popularity to the Ralph Vaughan Williams concerto and has likely affected many a composer who has attempted to write a concerto for the tuba since. The piece is filled with identifiable themes, tonal