Second Edition
for | Symphonic orchestra |
Musical Editions | Score (Hardcover) |
Item no. | 769523 |
Author / Composer | Ralph Vaughan Williams |
Editor | David Lloyd-Jones |
Scope | 176 pages; 23.2 × 31.1 cm |
Duration | 37 minutes |
Release year | 2012 |
Publisher / Producer | Oxford University Press |
Producer No. | OUP 9780193376335 |
ISBN | 9780193376335 |
Vaughan Williams's 6th Symphony was composed immediately after the Second World War and its dramatic and at times violent musical language was long felt to be a comment on that conflict (though the composer denied it had any programmatic intent). Its power and invention were immediately recognized and it has remained part of the concert repertoire ever since. For this newly engraved edition, editor David Lloyd-Jones has consulted all extant sources and materials to create a score matching the composer's intentions.
The full score is completed with Textual Notes and Preface, and accompanying orchestral parts are available on hire.
Orchestration: 3 fl, 2 ob, ca, 2 cl, bcl or tsx, 2 bn, cbn, 4 hn, 3 tpt, 3 tbn, tba, timp, 3 perc (SD, BD, tri, cym, xylo), 2 hp (II opt), str