|titolo = O clap your hands
|appellativo =
|immagine = Vaughan-williams-hoppé.jpg
|dimensione =
|didascalia = Il compositore nel 1920
|compositore = {{nowrap|[[Ralph Vaughan Williams]]}}
|tonalità = [[si bemolle maggiore|si bem. magg.]]
|forma = [[mottetto]]
|opus =
| type = [[Motet]]
| composer = [[Ralph Vaughan Williams]]
| image = Vaughan-williams-hoppé.jpg
| caption = The composer c. 1920
| key = [[B-flat major]]
| misc = -->
'''''O clap your hands''''' isè aun [[mottetto]] bydi [[Ralph Vaughan Williams]]. HeNel composed1920 thecompose l'[[anthem]], aun'ambientazione settingsui ofversi verses fromdel [[Salmo 47]], inper 1920un forcoro ain four-partquattro choirparti, organorgano, brass,ottoni ande percussionpercussioni. HeIn laterseguito alsorealizzò madeanche versionsversioni forper orchestra ande for organorgano. TheIl mottetto motetè wasstato oftenregistrato recordedspesso.
== Storia ==
Vaughan Williams wasera anun [[Agnosticismo|agnostico]] butma stillcomponeva composedtuttavia Anglicanmusica churchda musicchiesa anglicana.<ref name="Morrison" /> He said,Diceva: "ThereNon isc'è nomotivo reasonper whycui anun atheistateo couldnon notpossa writescrivere auna goodbuona Mass.messa".<ref name="Providence" /> HeApprezzava appreciatedla themusica music bydi [[Thomas Tallis]], [[William Byrd]] ande otheraltri 16th-centurycompositori composersdel [[XVI secolo]] onsu Englishtesti textsinglesi.<ref name="Providence" />
WorldLa War[[prima Iguerra mondiale]], forper whichla hequale hadsi volunteeredera toofferto servevolontario inper theprestare militaryservizio militare,<ref name="Providence" /> leftgli alasciò una deepprofonda impressionimpressione.<ref name="Hall" /> FromDal 1919, hefu wasinsegnante adi teachercomposizione of composition at theal [[Royal College of Music]]. He wrote theScrisse l'[[anthem]] ''O clap your hands'', aun'ambientazione setting ofdi selectedversi versesselezionati fromdel [[Salmo 47|Psalm 47]], innel 1920. ItFu waspubblicato published ina LondonLondra byda Stainer & Bell thelo samestesso yearanno.<ref name="Kingsbury" /> ItÈ wasstato oftenspesso recordedregistrato.<ref name="Musiekweb" />
AUna [[Loopsequenza (music)|loop]]ricorrente from the anthemdell'inno, performedeseguito bydal thecoro Choir ofdel King's College, di Cambridge, ande thedalla [[English Chamber Orchestra]], conducteddiretti byda David Willcocks, wasfu usedusata forper thela songcanzone "[[Revolution 9]]" bydei [[theThe Beatles|Beatles]].<ref name="Everett" />
== Testo e musica ==
Vaughan Williams chosescelse versesi versetti 1,2,5–8 (innella numerazione thedella versione della [[KingBibbia Jamesdi Versionre Giacomo]] numbering) fromdel [[Salmo 47]],<ref name="Providence" /> aun psalmsalmo callingche tochiama exaltad Godesaltare asDio thecome Kingre ofdi "alltutta thela earthterra" withcon handsmani, voicesvoci ande instrumentsstrumenti.<ref name="Providence" /> TheL'originale Hebrewebraico originalmenziona mentions thelo [[shofar]], which ische givenè aschiamato [[Tromba|trumpettromba]] in Englishinglese.<ref name="Bible" />
HeAmbientò setil the texttesto in oneun movementmovimento in B-flat[[si majorbemolle maggiore]], markedannotato come ''Allegro''. HeLo scoredscrisse itper forun acoro four-partin choir,quattro organparti, brassorgano, andottoni percussione percussioni, butma alsorealizzò madeanche auna versionversione forper orchestra ande anuna organversione versionper organo.<ref name="Kingsbury" /> TheLa musicmusica beginsinizia withcon brassfanfare fanfaresdegli ottoni. AUna jubilantprima firstsezione sectionesultante isè followedseguita byda anuna introspectivesezione middlecentrale sectionintrospettiva.<ref name="Kingsbury" /> TheLa conclusionconclusione isè aun triumphantculmine climaxtrionfante, repeatingripetendo thele wordsparole "SingCanta praiseslodi untoal ournostro Kingre, singcanta praises.lodi".<ref name="Providence" />
Richard R. Terry, whoche hadaveva conducteddiretto thela firstprima performanceesecuzione ofdella the composer's '[[Messa in sol minore (Vaughan Williams)|Messa in sol minore]]'' del compositore atnella [[WestminsterCattedrale Cathedraldi Westminster]], wrote togli himscrisse: "I'm quiteSono sincereabbastanza whensincero Iquando saydico thatche [thisquesto] isè theil worklavoro oneche hastutti allsi alongaspettavano beenda waiting fortempo. InNel yourtuo individuallinguaggio andindividuale moderne idiommoderno youhai havedavvero reallycatturato capturedil thevecchio oldspirito liturgicalliturgico spirite and atmosphere.l'atmosfera".<ref name="Providence" />
==Note==
<references>
<ref name="Everett">{{citeCita booklibro|cognome= Everett
| last = Everett
| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=eTkHAldi4bEC&pg=PA175 ▼
| title titolo= The Beatles as Musicians: Revolver Through the Anthology ▼
▲| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=eTkHAldi4bEC&pg=PA175
| publisher editore= [[Oxford University Press ]]▼
▲| title = The Beatles as Musicians: Revolver Through the Anthology
▲| publisher = [[Oxford University Press]]
| isbn = 978-0-19-512941-0
| page p= 175
}}</ref>
<ref name="Hall">{{citeCita booklibro|cognome= Hall
| last = Hall
| url = https://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/world-war-one/inside-first-world-war/part-seven/10668064/ralph-vaughan-williams-pastoral-symphony.html ▼
| title titolo= Vaughan Williams: ‘A vivid awareness of how men died’ ▼
▲| url = https://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/world-war-one/inside-first-world-war/part-seven/10668064/ralph-vaughan-williams-pastoral-symphony.html
| workopera= [[The Daily Telegraph]] ▼
▲| title = Vaughan Williams: ‘A vivid awareness of how men died’
| date data= 28 Februaryfebbraio 2014 ▼
▲| work= [[The Daily Telegraph]]
|accesso= 6 settembre 2018
▲| date = 28 February 2014
| accessdate = 6 September 2018
}}</ref>
<ref name="Kingsbury">{{citeCita web|cognome= Kingsbury
| last = Kingsbury
|url= https://www.allmusic.com/composition/o-clap-your-hands-motet-for-chorus-brass-organ-psalm-47-mc0002371728
|titolo= urlRalph =Vaughan Williams https://www.allmusic.com/composition/o-clap-your-hands- O Clap Your Hands, motet- for- chorus-, brass- & organ-psalm- (Psalm 47-mc0002371728)
| title = Ralph Vaughan Williams / O Clap Your Hands, motet for chorus, brass & organ (Psalm 47)
| publisher editore= [[AllMusic]] ▼
|accesso= 23 agosto 2018
▲| publisher = [[AllMusic]]
| accessdate = 23 August 2018
}}</ref>
<ref name="Morrison">{{citeCita news|cognome= Morrison
| last = Morrison
| url = http://docs.newsbank.com/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info:sid/iw.newsbank.com:UKNB:LTIB&rft_val_format=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:ctx&rft_dat=122BA1CE54A68B78&svc_dat=InfoWeb:aggregated5&req_dat=102CDD40F14C6BDA ▼
| title titolo= Always up for a lark ascending" ▼
▲| url = http://docs.newsbank.com/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info:sid/iw.newsbank.com:UKNB:LTIB&rft_val_format=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:ctx&rft_dat=122BA1CE54A68B78&svc_dat=InfoWeb:aggregated5&req_dat=102CDD40F14C6BDA
| date data= 22 Augustagosto 2008 ▼
▲| title = Always up for a lark ascending"
| newspaper giornale= [[The Times]] ▼
|accesso= 23 agosto 2018
▲| newspaper = [[The Times]]
| accessdate = 23 August 2018
}}</ref>
<ref name="Musiekweb">{{citeCita web|url= https://www.muziekweb.nl/Link/U00000596128/CLASSICAL/Psalm-47-%22O-clap-your-hands%22
| title titolo= Psalm 47, "O, clap your hands" / Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872–1958) ▼
| url = https://www.muziekweb.nl/Link/U00000596128/CLASSICAL/Psalm-47-%22O-clap-your-hands%22
▲| title = Psalm 47, "O, clap your hands" / Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872–1958)
| website sito= muziekweb.nl ▼
|accesso= 23 agosto 2018
▲| website = muziekweb.nl
| accessdate = 23 August 2018
}}</ref>
<ref name="Providence">{{citeCita web
| url = http://www.providencesingers.org/Concerts06/Season15-16/Mar16Williams.php
| title titolo= Ralph Vaughan Williams / O Clap Your Hands (1920) / Lord, Thou Hast Been Our Refuge (1921)
| year anno= 2016
| publisher editore= Providence Singers
| accessdate accesso= 23 Augustagosto 2018
|dataarchivio= 23 agosto 2018
|urlarchivio= https://web.archive.org/web/20180823141859/http://www.providencesingers.org/Concerts06/Season15-16/Mar16Williams.php
|urlmorto= sì
}}</ref>
<ref name="Bible">
{{Cita libro| editorcuratore=His Majesty's Special Command ▼
{{cite book
| titletitolo=Bible (King James) ▼
▲|editor=His Majesty's Special Command
▲|title=Bible (King James)
| publishereditore=Oxford University ▼
|lingua=en
▲|publisher=Oxford University
|language=en
}}
</ref>
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