Facade Entertainments: Set of Parts (William Walton Edition)

Erscheinungsjahr 2000
ISBN: 978-0-19-359386-2
Verlag: OXFORD UNIV PR

Buch, Englisch, 273 Seiten, Format (B × H): 310 mm x 254 mm, Gewicht: 1134 g

Reihe: William Walton Edition

These performing materials incorporate all the research from the full score (Walton Edition vol. 7), and present new editions of Façade Entertainment, and Façade 2, and four hitherto unpublished numbers all in new, clear engraving.
A detailed preface in the full score explains the fascinating history of the work, with full textual notes and an appendix of the poems.
The set of parts comprises flute and piccolo, clarinet, alto saxophone in E flat, trumpet in C, percussion, cello, and cello A and B for Façade 1. The reciter's part is available separately from www.allegro.co.uk.
Score and parts are also available from the OUP Hire Library.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lloyd-Jones, David

Weitere Mitwirkende

Walton, William

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikgattungen Kammermusik & Ensembles

Über Autor(innen)

Sir William Walton was born in Oldham, Lancashire in 1902, the son of a choirmaster and a singing-teacher. He became a chorister at Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford, and then an undergraduate at the University. His first composition to attract attention was a piano quartet written at the age of sixteen. At Oxford he made the acquaintance of the Sitwells who gave him friendship, moral and financial support and in 1922 he collaborated with Edith in devising the
entertainment Façade. Less than ten years later, Osbert prepared the text of another masterwork, Belshazzar's Feast. From 1922 to 1927 Walton began to spend an increasing amount of time abroad, notably in Switzerland and Italy. The war years were devoted mainly to writing film and ballet scores and he became
established as amongst the greatest composers for the screen.