Ralph Vaughan Williams: Ten Blake Songs

The one-act ballet Job has been described as one of Vaughan Williams's mightiest achievements. It is a work which in a full production combines painting literature music and dance. The work was inspired by William Blake's Illustrations of the Book of Job and includes quotations from the King James Bible.The result is a musical masterpiece combining the ancient and the modern: Vaughan Williams's earlier style is in evidence including tranquil pastoral melodies but the work also anticipates the composer's later style. This new scholarly edition edited by Julian Rushton will replace the existing OUP edition from 1934 and will includedetailed preliminary matter comprising a preface sources and editorial method and detailed textual notes.