| Abstrakt: |
In this essay I undertake an analysis of Ralph Vaughan Williams's Five Variants of "Dives and Lazarus" as part of the process of investigating large-scale diatonic organization of the composer's works. It is my intent to classify and develop a vocabulary to discuss a variety of diatonic relationships, devise a method of graphically representing a work's diatonic organization, and identify a standard model for such diatonic organization in Vaughan Williams's music as a whole. It is my contention that anomalies in the Five Variants' diatonic organization reinforce its principal motivic and formal features, and reveal highly systematic relationships among its mode, motives, and actual folk song variants. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
