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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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  • and biographer of her second husband, the composer Ralph Vaughan Williams. Ursula Vaughan Williams was born in Valletta, Malta, where her father, Major...
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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...
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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 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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  • work 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 Vaughan Williams Memorial Library (VWML) is the library and archive of the English Folk Dance and Song Society (EFDSS), located in the society's London...
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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...
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    Dona 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...
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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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    several artists and poets (among whom was the 20th-century composer Ralph Vaughan Williams). Presented below are brief biographical descriptions and genealogical...
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  • Program music is a term applied to any musical composition on the classical music tradition in which the piece is designed according to some preconceived...
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  • the music was set to a traditional tune, 'Valour', arranged by Ralph Vaughan Williams. In the second, larger edition of Songs of Praise, published in...
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    Down Ampney (category Ralph Vaughan Williams)
    was the birthplace in 1872 of composer Ralph Vaughan Williams, whose father, the Reverend Arthur Vaughan Williams (1834–1875), was vicar of All Saints....
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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'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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  • 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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    as 'The Blacksmith' after another broadside ballad of the time. Ralph Vaughan Williams incorporated Greensleeves as the song Alas, My Love, You Do Me Wrong...
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  • Vaughan Williams (1872–1958). Other people named Vaughan Williams include: Edward Vaughan Williams (1797–1875), English judge, grandfather of Ralph Vaughan...
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  • Public Health Service Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872–1958), English composer Ralph Williams (American football) (born 1958) Ralph Williams (athlete) (1900-1941)...
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  • and written down by Cecil Sharp in Buckland, Gloucestershire, and Ralph Vaughan Williams, who heard it being sung by a Harriet Verrall of Monk's Gate, near...
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  • Serenade to Music (category Compositions by Ralph Vaughan Williams)
    an orchestral concert work completed in 1938 by English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams, written as a tribute to conductor Sir Henry Wood. It features an...
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  • inspired many notable works and appeared in several pieces composed by Ralph Vaughan Williams. Francis James Child collected two variants in The English and Scottish...
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  • Rachmaninoff – Piano Concerto No. 2 2. Ralph Vaughan Williams – The Lark Ascending 3. Ralph Vaughan Williams – Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis 4...
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    O Little Town of Bethlehem (category Choral compositions by Ralph Vaughan Williams)
    Kingdom, Canada, and Ireland to "Forest Green", a tune collected by Ralph Vaughan Williams and first published in the 1906 English Hymnal. The text was written...
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  • Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus (category Compositions by Ralph Vaughan Williams)
    orchestra 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...
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  • was taught by Gordon Jacob and Ralph Vaughan Williams. Other notable female composers studying with Vaughan Williams at the RCM were Elizabeth Maconchy...
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    The English Hymnal (category Ralph Vaughan Williams)
    clergyman and writer Percy Dearmer and the composer and music historian Ralph Vaughan Williams, and was a significant publication in the history of Anglican church...
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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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    in E 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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