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Running Set, The (arr. Daehn)
Ralph Vaughan Williams (arr. Larry Daehn)
Subtitle: Founded on Traditional Dance Tunes
General Info
Year: 1933 / 2007
Duration: c. 6:00
Difficulty: IV (see Ratings for explanation)
Original Medium: Orchestra
Publisher: Daehn Music, through C.L. Barnhouse
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $86.00 | Score Only (print) - $10.00
Instrumentation
Full Score
C Piccolo
Flute
Oboe
Bassoon
E-flat Soprano Clarinet
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II-III
B-flat Bass Clarinet
E-flat Alto Saxophone
B-flat Tenor Saxophone
E-flat Baritone Saxophone
B-flat Trumpet I-II-III
Horn in F I-II
Trombone I-II
Euphonium
Tuba
Timpani
Percussion, including:
- Bass Drum
- Bells
- Chimes
- Marimba
- Snare Drum
- Triangle
- Vibraphone
- Xylophone
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
This lively jig dances from beginning to end. Several British folk tunes are mixed in with the melody as the moving eighth notes provide the "running" theme. Each section is featured playing the melodic line.
- Program Note from publisher
The Running Set (1933) was originally for reduced, though not chamber-sized, orchestra. The title of the work pertains to a dance that had disappeared from England by the time the composer wrote this work. However, it could still be seen in certain parts of the United States in the first half of the twentieth century.
Vaughan Williams uses the themes from four folk dance tunes in The Running Set: Barrack Hill, The Blackthorn Stick, Irish Reel, and Cock o' the North. While these titles may sound quaint to us today, they were well-known items to Vaughan Williams, who had collected over 800 folk songs, arranging many for both vocal and instrumental combinations.
The Running Set begins with a lively, jovial tune Barrack Hill, clothed in colorful orchestration, featuring the percussion section, especially the snare drum. The other aforementioned folk tunes follow in quick succession, all lively and each having somewhat Irish flavors. The music effervesces from first note to last and features driving, energetic rhythms throughout.
Vaughan Williams wrote the work for the 1934 National Folk Dance Festival held in London.
- Program Note from University of North Texas University Band concert program, 9 November 2016
Media
- Audio: Reference recording. Ensemble and conductor unknown
- Audio CD: Austin Symphonic Band (Richard Floyd, conductor) - 2007
- Audio CD: North Texas Wind Symphony (Eugene Migliaro Corporon, conductor)
State Ratings
- North Carolina: IV
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- Austin (Tx.) Symphonic Band (Richard Floyd, conductor) – 22 December 2007 (2007 Midwest Clinic)
Works for Winds by This Composer
Adaptable Music
- Folk Songs from Somerset (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Huckeby) (1924/2020)
- My Bonny Boy (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Huckeby) (1924/2020)
- Seventeen Come Sunday (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Huckeby) (1924/2020)
All Wind Works
- Concerto for Bass Tuba (arr. Wick and Chambers) (1954/1992)
- Concerto Grosso (arr. Grechesky) (1924)
- Concerto in F minor for Tuba and Winds (arr. Hare) (1954/1992)
- England's Pleasant Land (arr. Noble) (1938/2017)
- English Folk Song Suite. See: Folk Song Suite
- English Folk Song Suite (arr. Villanueva) (1924/)
- Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis (arr. Bocook) (1910/2006)
- Fantasia on Greensleeves (arr. Wagner) (1934/2011)
- Five English Folk Songs (arr. Feldman) (1913/2009)
- Five Variants of "Dives and Lazarus" (arr. Gregson) (1939/2004)
- Flourish for Glorious John (or. Boyd) (1957/1998)
- Flourish for Wind Band (1939)
- Folk Song Suite (1924/2008)
- Folk Songs from Somerset (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Huckeby) (1924/2020)
- Golden Vanity, The (arr. Wagner) (1933/2009)
- I Vow to Thee, My Country (as setter; ed. Grechesky) (1921/1988)
- Lark Ascending, The (tr. Silvester) (1914/1925/2003)
- Linden Lea (arr. Wagner) (1902/2013)
- Linden Lea (arr. Stout) (1902/1984)
- The Lowlands of Scotland (arr. Daehn) (1912/2006)
- March Past of the Kitchen Utensils (arr. Erwin) (1909/2010)
- My Bonny Boy (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Huckeby) (1924/2020)
- Norfolk Rhapsody (tr. Robert O'Brien) (1905)
- Norfolk Rhapsody No. 2 in D minor (tr. O'Toole) (1906/2014?)
- Overture to "The Wasps" (tr. Frank Hudson) (1909)
- Prelude, 49th Parallel (arr. van der Beek) (1960/2018)
- Prelude: 49th Parallel (arr. Noble) (1941/2014)
- Prelude: 49th Parallel (arr. Winkler) (1941/1960)
- Prelude from "49th Parallel" (tr. Osmon) (1941/1960/1987/2002)
- Prelude on Three Welsh Hymn Tunes (arr. Curnow) (1954/1982)
- Prelude: The New Commonwealth (arr. Grauer) (1940/2006)
- A Ralph Vaughan Williams Portrait (arr. Wagner) (2018)
- Rhosymedre (tr. Beeler) (1920/1972)
- Rhosymedre (tr. Johnston) (1920/2011)
- Rhosymedre (tr. Baldwin) (1920/)
- The Running Set (arr. Daehn) (1933/2007)
- Running Set, The (tr. Silvester) (1933)
- Scherzo alla Marcia (1956)
- Sea Songs (1925)
- Sea Songs (arr. Longfield) (1925/2006)
- Seventeen Come Sunday (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Huckeby) (1924/2020)
- Sine Nomine (arr. Cacavas) (1906/1998)
- Sine Nomine (arr. Houseknecht) (1906/1960)
- Sine Nomine (arr. Reed) (1906/1976)
- Songs of Travel (arr. Patterson) (1901-4)
- Three Dorset Songs (arr. Stotter) (1902-1903/2003)
- Three Studies in English Folk Song (arr. Harbinson) (1927/1999/2003)
- Toccata Marziale (1924)
- Toccata Marziale (ed. Battisti) (1924/2005)
- Variations for Wind Band (trans. Hunsberger) (1957/1988/1997)
- Vaughan Williams Christmas, A (arr. Wagner) (1999)
- Wassail (arr. Smith)