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Folking Around: a new approach to Ralph Vaughan Williams’ Suite for Viola and Small Orchestra (2024)

Raquel Roldan I Montserrat
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As a classically-trained violist I did not have much knowledge about folk music, but when I encountered Ralph Vaughan Williams’ Suite for Viola and Small Orchestra I became very interested in understanding the English folk-music that inspired the piece. To enrich my interpretation of this specific work, I analyzed and explored tunes compilated by the composer, incorporated the four main characteristics of English folk music listed by his contemporary Cecil Sharp, and integrated these aspects in my own artistic practice, resulting in a list of tools which serve as a guide to interpret the piece.
typeresearch exposition
keywordsvaughan williams, folk music, english folk music, english music, ralph vaughan williams, suite for viola and small orchestra, viola, viola suite
date28/02/2023
published04/07/2024
last modified04/07/2024
statuslimited publication
share statusprivate
copyrightRaquel Roldán i Montserrat
licenseCC BY-NC-ND
languageEnglish
urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/2390156/2558386
published inKC Research Portal
portal issue3. Internal publication


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