Prelude 49th Parallel

Conductor's score and parts on hire - full orchestral version

Forces or Category: Full orchestra

Orchestration: 2 fl, 2 ob, 2 cl, 2 bn, 4 hn, 2 tpt, 3 tbn, tba, timp, cym, hp, str

For full orchestra
The Prelude to a 1941 British war film about a German U-boat crew becoming stranded in Canada, this work is quintessentially ...

Prelude 49th Parallel

Conductor's score and parts on hire - full orchestral version

Description

49th Parallel (entitled The Invaders in the USA) was a 1941 British war film (featuring Laurence Olivier) about a German U-boat crew becoming stranded in Canada. The musical style of the Prelude is quintessentially English, with sweeping string lines and a warm yet melancholic tone. It is also available in versions for brass band or string orchestra, and in an adapted form for SATB chorus and orchestra under the title The New Commonwealth.

Prelude 49th Parallel

Conductor's score and parts on hire - full orchestral version

Ralph Vaughan Williams

Composer Information

Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)

Ralph Vaughan Williams, born in Gloucestershire on 12 October 1872, read History at Cambridge and went to the Royal College of Music where his teachers were Parry, Wood, and Stanford. Vaughan Williams believed in the value of music education and wrote practical competition pieces, serviceable church music, and with the 49th Parallel (1940-41) he found a new outlet in writing for film. His profoundly disturbing Symphony No.6 (1948) received international acclaim with more than a hundred performances in a little over two years. His great sensitivity to the 20th-century human condition, his flexibility in writing for all levels of music making, and his unquestionably great imagination combine to make him one of the key figures in 20th century music. Ralph Vaughan Williams had a long association with Oxford University Press; over 200 publications are available in the Oxford catalogue.

The Ralph Vaughan Williams Society