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''Ten Blake Songs'' is a song cycle for tenor voice and oboe composed over the Christmas period of 1957 by Ralph Vaughan Williams (18721958), for the 1958 film ''The Vision of William Blake'' by Guy Brenton for Morse Films.〔Liner notes on LP Contour Red Label (Pickwick Records) CC 7577.〕 The first nine songs are from ''Songs of Innocence and of Experience'' by the English poet and visionary William Blake (17571827); the tenth is from ''Auguries of Innocence'' by the same poet. The cycle is dedicated to the tenor Wilfred Brown and the oboist Janet Craxton. It was first performed in concert and broadcast on the BBC Third Programme on 8 October 1958, shortly after the composer's death. The songs are: # "Infant Joy" (Innocence) # "A Poison Tree" (Experience) # "The Piper" (Innocence, titled "Introduction") # "London" (Experience) # "The Lamb" (Innocence) # "The Shepherd" (Innocence) # "Ah! Sun-flower" (Experience) # "Cruelty Has a Human Heart" (Experience) # "The Divine Image" (Innocence) # "Eternity" (Auguries, closing words) == References == 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ten Blake Songs」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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