Prelude and Fugue in C minor

Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-0-19-355126-8
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Sonstiges, Englisch, 16 Seiten, Format (B × H): 232 mm x 311 mm

Reihe: The Oxford Organ Library

Vaughan Williams's Prelude and Fugue in C minor (1921) is characterized by a sense of drama and punctuated by bristling dissonances. The Prelude's ritornello-like alternation of chordal grandeur and rapid imitative sections recalls Bach's great organ Prelude and Fugue in the same key, while the rhythmically complicated Fugue, whose subject looks ahead to the composer's Sixth Symphony, displays great ingenuity in its counterpoint, fully justifying the assertiveness of
its final peroration in C major.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Vaughan Williams, Ralph

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Geschichte der Musik Geschichte der Musik: Klassische Musik des 20./21. Jahrhunderts
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikinstrumente Tasteninstrumente

Über Autor(innen)

Ralph Vaughan Williams, born in Gloucestershire on 12 October 1872, read History at Cambridge and went to the Royal College of Music where his teachers were Parry, Wood, and Stanford. Vaughan Williams believed in the value of music education and wrote practical competition pieces, serviceable church music, and with the 49th Parallel (1940-41) he found a new outlet in writing for film. His profoundly disturbing Symphony No.6 (1948) received international acclaim with
more than a hundred performances in a little over two years. His great sensitivity to the 20th-century human condition, his flexibility in writing for all levels of music making, and his unquestionably great imagination combine to make him one of the key figures in 20th century music. Ralph Vaughan
Williams had a long association with Oxford University Press; over 200 publications are available in the Oxford catalogue.