Vaughan Williams's 'Silent noon': structure and proportions.

The article discusses the structure and proportion of Vaughan Williams' song "Silent Noon." According to the article, the song contains an alternative structure of Trevor Hold's notion of being in a ternary form. It can also be heard as a rounded binary structure. Moreover, the song has an underlyin...

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Publicado en:Musical Times Vol. 150; no. 1907; pp. 71 - 83
Autor principal: Atlas, Allan W.
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Musical Times Publications Ltd. Summer2009
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Sumario:The article discusses the structure and proportion of Vaughan Williams' song "Silent Noon." According to the article, the song contains an alternative structure of Trevor Hold's notion of being in a ternary form. It can also be heard as a rounded binary structure. Moreover, the song has an underlying sense of large scale symmetry that has gone unnoticed.