Folk Songs of the Four Seasons

by Ralph Vaughan Williams (Composer)

Overview

for chorus and piano.
For this comprehensive new edition, the editor Graham Parlett has drawn on all available sources, providing an authoritative full score with critical commentary. This edition also makes available new materials for the version for string orchestra and piano, and a new vocal score.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780193533561
Publisher:	Oxford University Press Music
Publication date:	10/26/2023
Pages:	80
Product dimensions:	11.90(w) x 8.60(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Ralph Vaughan Williams, born in Gloucestershire on 12 October 1872, read History at Cambridge and went to the Royal College of Music where his teachers were Parry, Wood, and Stanford. Vaughan Williams believed in the value of music education and wrote practical competition pieces, serviceable church music, and with the 49th Parallel (1940-41) he found a new outlet in writing for film. His profoundly disturbing Symphony No.6 (1948) received international acclaim with more than a hundred performances in a little over two years. His great sensitivity to the 20th-century human condition, his flexibility in writing for all levels of music making, and his unquestionably great imagination combine to make him one of the key figures in 20th century music. Ralph Vaughan Williams had a long association with Oxford University Press; over 200 publications are available in the Oxford catalogue.

Table of Contents

Prologue: To the PloughboySpringEarly in the SpringThe Lark in the MorningMay SongSummerSummer is a-coming inThe CuckooThe Sprig of ThymeThe Sheep ShearingThe Green MeadowAutumnJohn BarleycornThe Unquiet GraveAn Acre of LandWinterChildren's Christmas SongWassail SongIn Bethlehem CityGod bless the Master