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The Lark Ascending by Ralph Vaughan Williams
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Biografie van de kunstenaar Ralph Vaughan Williams
Ralph Vaughan Williams OM 1872–1958 Was An Influential English Composer. Vaughan Williams Was Born On 12th October 1872 In Down Ampney A Village In The Cotswolds. After Attending Charterhouse School And Trinity College Cambridge He Became A Student At The Royal College Of Music He Later Studied With Max Bruch In Berlin And Maurice Ravel In Paris. He Served As A Lieutenant In World War I Having Volunteered For The Field Ambulance Service The Appalling Carnage Affected Him Deeply As Did The Deaths Of Close Friends Such As George Butterworth. He Wrote Nine Symphonies Between 1910 And 1958 As Well As Numerous Other Works Including Chamber Music Opera Choral Music And Film Scores. He Was Also One Of The First Serious Collectors Of English Folk Music And Served As President Of The English Folk Dance And Song Society EFDSS . The Society's Vaughan Williams Memorial Library Is Named For Him. Vaughan Williams Died On 26th August 1958 And His Ashes Are Interred In Westminster Abbey.
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Vaughan Williams Was Inspired By George Meredith's 122-Line Poem Of The Same Name About The Skylark. He Included This Portion Of Meredith's Poem On The Flyleaf Of The Published Work He Rises And Begins To Round He Drops The Silver Chain Of Sound Of Many Links Without A Break In Chirrup Whistle Slur And Shake. For Singing Till His Heaven Fills ‘Tis Love Of Earth That He Instils And Ever Winging Up And Up Our Valley Is His Golden Cup
And He The Wine Which Overflows
to Lift Us With Him As He Goes. Till Lost On His Aerial Rings
In Light And Then The Fancy Sings. The Work Was Written In Two Versions Violin And Piano Written In 1914 And Violin And Orchestra Written In 1920. The Orchestral Version Is The One That Is Almost Always Heard Now. It Is One Of The Most Popular Pieces In The Classical Repertoire Among British Listeners. Vaughan Williams Sketched The Work While Watching Troop Ships Cross The English Channel At The Outbreak Of The First World War. A Small Boy Observed Him Making The Sketches And Thinking He Was Jotting Down A Secret Code Informed A Police Officer Who Subsequently Arrested The Composer. The War Halted His Compositional Activities But The Work Was Revised In 1920 With The Help Of The English Violinist Marie Hall During Their Stay At Kings Weston House Near Bristol. The Use Of Pentatonic Scale Patterns Frees The Violin From A Strong Tonal Centre And Shows The Impressionistic Side Of Vaughan Williams' Style. This Liberty Also Extends To The Metre The Cadenzas For Solo Violin Are Written Without Bar Lines Lending Them A Sense Of Meditational Release.
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Ralph Vaughan Williams OM 1872–1958 Was An Influential English Composer. Vaughan Williams Was Born On 12th October 1872 In Down Ampney A Village In The Cotswolds. After Attending Charterhouse School And Trinity College Cambridge He Became A Student At The Royal College Of Music He Later Studied With Max Bruch In Berlin And Maurice Ravel In Paris. He Served As A Lieutenant In World War I Having Volunteered For The Field Ambulance Service The Appalling Carnage Affected Him Deeply As Did The Deaths Of Close Friends Such As George Butterworth. He Wrote Nine Symphonies Between 1910 And 1958 As Well As Numerous Other Works Including Chamber Music Opera Choral Music And Film Scores. He Was Also One Of The First Serious Collectors Of English Folk Music And Served As President Of The English Folk Dance And Song Society EFDSS . The Society's Vaughan Williams Memorial Library Is Named For Him. Vaughan Williams Died On 26th August 1958 And His Ashes Are Interred In Westminster Abbey.
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Vaughan Williams was inspired by George Meredith's 122-line poem of the same name about the skylark. He included this portion of Meredith's poem on the flyleaf of the published work:
He rises and begins to round,
He drops the silver chain of sound,
Of many links without a break,
In chirrup, whistle, slur and shake.
For singing till his heaven fills,
‘Tis love of earth that he instils,
And ever winging up and up,
Our valley is his golden cup
And he the wine which overflows
to lift us with him as he goes.
Till lost on his aerial rings
In light, and then the fancy sings.
The work was written in two versions: violin and piano, written in 1914; and violin and orchestra, written in 1920. The orchestral version is the one that is almost always heard now. It is one of the most popular pieces in the Classical repertoire among British listeners.
Vaughan Williams sketched the work while watching troop ships cross the English Channel at the outbreak of the First World War. A small boy observed him making the sketches and, thinking he was jotting down a secret code, informed a police officer, who subsequently arrested the composer. The war halted his compositional activities, but the work was revised in 1920 with the help of the English violinist Marie Hall, during their stay at Kings Weston House near Bristol.
The use of pentatonic scale patterns frees the violin from a strong tonal centre, and shows the impressionistic side of Vaughan Williams' style. This liberty also extends to the metre; the cadenzas for solo violin are written without bar lines, lending them a sense of meditational release. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.