On Wenlock Edge Vaughn Williams

• Movement 1: Based on Countryside and Nostaligia, an unchanging landscape
• Vaughan Williams was born in England in 1872.
• Movement 3: Ghost of man asking best friend how his living wife (betrayal)
• Movement 8: Bells from a church either funeral bells or church bells
• Influences are french impressionism, English Folk and Tudor
• Melodic Features (MV1): Appegios, chromatisms, false relations, word paining, ascending sequence, false relations, counter melody
• Rhythm- Triplets, sextuplets, tremeloes, trills, semiquavers, syncopation and cross rhythm
• Harmony: Parallel Chords, dissonance, clashes, block chords, una corda, inversion
• Instrumentation: Sul ponticello, trills, tremelo, una corda, pizzicato, con sordino, con soridini
• instruments: piano quintent(Piano, violin, Cello, viola)