V. Williams Along the Field

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=90 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000" background="a79015a3.jpg"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><B>906-910 W. Ainslie Condominiums </B></FONT><B>  </B><B>   |     </B><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="906910 W. Ainslie Condominiums "><B>home</B></A></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=210 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" height=390 width="100%" BGCOLOR="#FFFBF0" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <I><B>"Along the Field" Songs for Soprano & Violin</B></I></div> <div> <B>by Ralph Vaughn Williams</B></div> <div> <I>Laura Sutton Floyd, soprano</I></div> <div> <I>Melissa Barrett, violin</I></div> <div> <B>If your computer's sound system is working you should be hearing a commercially recorded excerpt.</B></div> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="598" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 458 WIDTH="134"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="458" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="134" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="414" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="VOID" RULES="NONE" ALIGN="LEFT" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP ROWSPAN=4 HEIGHT= 25 ><NOBR><div> <I><IMG SRC="90c87900.jpg" border=0 width="135" height="144" ALIGN="LEFT" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></I></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=CENTER ROWSPAN=4 COLSPAN=2><NOBR><div> I.      We'll to the woods no more</div> <div> II.     Along the field</div> <div> III.    The half-moon westers low</div> <div> IV.    In the morning</div> <div> V.     The sigh that heaves the grasses</div> <div> VI.    Good-bye</div> <div> VII.   Fancy's Knell</div> <div> VIII.  With rue my heart is laden</div> <bR> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> </tR> <tR> </tR> <tR> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=3 HEIGHT= 272 WIDTH="400"><div> Ralph Vaughan Williams left a varied body of work that includes orchestral works, songs, operas, and choral compositions.  He was considered a master of melody and mood and excelled at  the art of accompaniment-writing.  Rather than follow the traditional practice of using a piano to accompany a solo voice, Vaughan Williams chose the violin to accompany many of his songs including the set called <I><B><U>Along the Field</U></B></I>.  The poetry of     A. E. Housman, the well-known <I>A Shropshire Lad</I> and <I>Last Poem</I>, provided the text for this eight-verse song cycle written in 1927. </div> <bR> <div> The national, pastoral, and traditional elements of Housman's poems appealed to Vaughan Willams  due to his interest in preserving the rich history of English folk songs.  Ranging from simple humming sounds to evocations of rural dances, the violin plays the role of the rustic fiddler, here, an appropriate match for the pastoral verses.  The dominant themes are love, a pastoral nostalgia, and the sacrifice of young soldiers going to war, never to return.</div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B> <a href="JavaScript:window.close()">Close</a>  </B><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><I> <p> <object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=4,0,0,0" width=0 height=0 align="absmiddle"> <param name=movie value="mp3ss213s.swf"> <param name=quality value=best> <param name=wmode value=transparent> <param name=bgcolor value=#FFFFFF> <param name=loop value=false> <embed src="mp3ss213s.swf" quality=best wmode=transparent bgcolor=#FFFFFF loop=false width=0 height=0 type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" align="absmiddle"> </embed> </object> </p>  </I></FONT></div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <bR> </NOBR></tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <div>  </div> </td> </tr></table></body>