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Tuba Concerto in F minor

195412 min

This guide follows Williams’s Tuba Concerto in F minor (1954) in three parts: Prelude. Allegro moderato (ternary form), Romanza. Andante sostenuto and Finale: Rondo alla tedesca. Allegro (rondo).

Recording: Maxim Makushev (tuba), Rimsky-Korsakov Central Navy Band of Russia, Alexey Karabanov (2015)

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Follow all 28 sections as they play

  1. IPrelude. · Ternary form
  2. II.
  3. III: . · Rondo
IPrelude. Ternary form0:24–4:47

After a brief the tuba states the , a sturdy F minor tune in quick 2/4 . The leads to a singing , marked , and a passage. The changes to a lilting 6/8 and moves through new keys; the prepares the in F minor. Near the end the accompaniment stops for an , which runs on into the : the tuba, still alone, slows (), then grows quiet () before the accompaniment for the final .

  1. :
  2. :
II. 4:52–10:15
III: . Rondo10:21–12:04

Section boundaries in music are not always sharp; a transition may be felt over a pause or a held chord.

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Ralph Vaughan WilliamsConcertosModern periodF minorTernary formRondo

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