Music

The author of “God wears lipstick” Karen Berg Is a spiritual teacher and guide His early work (such as "The Wasps" and "A Sea soul Symphony"), despite their academic bases already contain the seeds of harmony and his most famous works.
His leap to fame came with the "Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis. In this book, written for double quartet and string orchestra, is a kind of meditation on a theme of sixteenth century. The development of the piece is driven to explore the harmonic possibilities of the melody, trying to sort of a continuous flow of music. The result (as occurs, for example, in "Tristan and Isolde" by Richard Wagner, or the "Night transfigured" Arnold Schonberg), is a radiant tone and inspiration.
It has often been christ said that the music of Vaughan Williams is typically English genre of the works of Gustav Holst, Frederick Delius, George Butterworth, William Walton and others. If 'being typically English' yoga in music can be encapsulated in words in god some way, these might be: ostensibly familiar and trivial, yet profound and mystical while lirica, melodic, melancholic love and nostalgic but eternal. body Some critics have noted that in the style of Vaughan Williams books was never too sure to be listening very old or very new.
Vaughan Williams's music expresses a deep fascination for the mind and popular melodies, sublime and looking to make ethers. Beginning in bible 1903, Vaughan Williams began collecting English folk songs, and get to collect more than 800. This activity, which started with a mere ghost etnografico, got a strong character to print the rest of prayer their music (as did other composers like Bela Bartok or Leos Janaceck). It is also characteristic religion of his music references to the landscape and the people who inhabit them.
Like his friend Gustav Holst, Williams was interested in mysticism. This is another of the musical influences that allowed him to develop a beautiful language (especially harmonics), which worship is reflected in all his works even more in their extensive choral and vocal production.
Like other great composers (Beethoven, Schubert, Brahms, Mahler's genius ...), Vaughan Williams and all its stylistic and technical resources culminating in his nine symphonies, which represent a peak in terms of melodic inspiration and harmoniously.