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    O clap your hands is a motet by Ralph Vaughan Williams. He composed the anthem, a setting of verses from Psalm 47, in 1920 for a four-part choir, organ...
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  • O clap your hands are the first words of Psalm 47 (King James version). O clap your hands may also refer to: O clap your hands (Vaughan Williams), a 1920...
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    Psalm 47 (redirect from O clap your hands)
    Book of Psalms, beginning in English in the King James Version: "O clap your hands". The Book of Psalms is the third section of the Hebrew Bible, and...
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    nobis pacem (English: Grant us peace) is a cantata written by Ralph Vaughan Williams in 1936 and first performed on 2 October of that year. The work was...
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    Ralph Vaughan Williams OM (/ˌreɪf vɔːn ˈwɪljəmz/ RAYF vawn WIL-yəmz; 12 October 1872 – 26 August 1958) was an English composer. His works include operas...
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    Ascending is a short, single-movement work by the English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams, inspired by the 1881 poem of the same name by the English writer George...
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    This is a list of compositions by Ralph Vaughan Williams. Hugh the Drover, or Love in the Stocks (1910–14; revised 1924, 1933, 1956). Romantic ballad opera...
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  • Ralph Vaughan Williams's Symphony No. 3, published as A Pastoral Symphony and not numbered until later, was completed in 1922. Vaughan Williams's inspiration...
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    Five Mystical Songs (category Choral compositions by Ralph Vaughan Williams)
    (September 1969). "Record Reviews: Mass in G Minor; Five Mystical Songs; O Clap Your Hands". The Musical Times. 110 (1519). The Musical Times, Vol. 110, No....
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  • Ralph Vaughan Williams wrote his Symphony No. 5 in D major between 1938 and 1943. In style it represents a shift away from the violent dissonance of his...
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  • "O taste and see" is a motet composed by Ralph Vaughan Williams in 1953 for the coronation of Elizabeth II. It is a setting of Psalm 34. It was also sung...
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  • for soprano, baritone, chorus and large orchestra written by Ralph Vaughan Williams between 1903 and 1909. The first and longest of his nine symphonies...
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  • The Wasps is incidental music composed by the British composer Ralph Vaughan Williams in 1909. It was written for the Cambridge Greek Play production of...
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  • Ralph Vaughan Williams' Four Last Songs cycle is made up of four songs: "Procris", "Tired", "Hands, Eyes, and Heart", and "Menelaus". All of the songs...
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  • The composer Ralph Vaughan Williams was one of the musicians who participated in the first English Folk Song revival, as well as using folk song tunes...
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  • A London Symphony is the second symphony that Ralph Vaughan Williams composed. The work is sometimes referred to as Symphony No. 2, though the composer...
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  • Ralph Vaughan Williams composed his Symphony in E minor, published as Symphony No. 6, in 1944–47, during and immediately after World War II and revised...
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  • Serenade to Music (category Compositions by Ralph Vaughan Williams)
    orchestral concert work completed in 1938 by English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams, written as a tribute to conductor Sir Henry Wood. It features an orchestra...
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  • was written by Ralph Vaughan Williams in 1943–44 for the oboist Léon Goossens, to whom the score is dedicated. Vaughan Williams began work on the Oboe...
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  • Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus (category Compositions by Ralph Vaughan Williams)
    by Ralph Vaughan Williams. The composition is based on the folk tune "Dives and Lazarus", one of the folk songs quoted in Vaughan Williams' English Folk...
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    minor was the last symphony written by the English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams. He composed it during 1956 and 1957, and it was given its premiere...
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  • Ralph Vaughan Williams dedicated his Symphony No. 4 in F minor to Arnold Bax. Unlike Vaughan Williams's first three symphonies, it was not given a title...
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  • Concerto Grosso is a work for string orchestra by Ralph Vaughan Williams. Originally composed in 1950 for a performance by the Rural Schools Music Association...
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  • The Mass in G minor is a choral work by Ralph Vaughan Williams written in 1921. According to one commentator, it is the first Mass written in a distinctly...
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  • Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis (category Compositions by Ralph Vaughan Williams)
    Tallis Fantasia, is a one-movement work for string orchestra by Ralph Vaughan Williams. The theme is by the 16th-century English composer Thomas Tallis. The...
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  • English Folk Song Suite (category Compositions by Ralph Vaughan Williams)
    English Folk Song Suite is one of English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams' most famous works. It was first published for the military band as Folk Song...
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    Ralph Vaughan Williams's Symphony No. 8 in D minor was composed between 1953 and 1955. Sir John Barbirolli, its dedicatee, conducted the Hallé Orchestra...
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  • song cycle composed by Ralph Vaughan Williams. Following the composition of Five Mystical Songs in 1911, Vaughan Williams began to compose a smaller scale...
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  • Concerto in F Minor for Bass Tuba and Orchestra by British composer Ralph Vaughan Williams was written in 1954 for Philip Catelinet, principal tubist of the London...
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  • antartica ("Antarctic Symphony") is the Italian title given by Ralph Vaughan Williams to his seventh symphony, first performed in 1953. It drew on incidental...
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