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''The Wasps'' is incidental music composed by the British composer Ralph Vaughan Williams in 1909. It was written for a production of Aristophanes' ''The Wasps'' at Trinity College, Cambridge, and was Vaughan Williams' first of only three forays into incidental music. A later performance of the work was one of only a small number of performances conducted by Williams that was committed to a recording.〔Alain Frogley: Liner Notes, UPC 094638215721. 2007.〕 It was scored for baritone solo voices, a chorus of tenors and baritones (in two parts each), and orchestra. The complete incidental music is lengthy (about 1 hour and 45 minutes) and is not often performed. Vaughan Williams later arranged parts of the music into an orchestral suite (about 26 minutes), in five parts: # Overture # Entr'acte # March Past of the Kitchen Utensils # Entr'acte # Ballet and Final Tableau. The ''Overture'' is quite concise (about 10 minutes) and is a popular independent concert piece today. There are close to 30 recordings now available of the overture. The ''March Past of the Kitchen Utensils'' is also quite charming and sometimes separately performed. The entire orchestral suite is also sometimes performed and recorded. The year before he wrote ''The Wasps'', Vaughan Williams spent three months in Paris studying orchestration with Maurice Ravel. Although ''The Wasps'' may reflect something of Ravel, it is quintessential Vaughan Williams. Except for the opening buzzing, the piece has little to do with wasps or with ancient Greece. ==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「The Wasps (Vaughan Williams)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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