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The Five Mystical Songs are a musical composition by English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872–1958), written between 1906 and 1911. [1] The work sets four poems ("Easter" divided into two parts) by seventeenth-century Welsh poet and Anglican priest George Herbert (1593–1633), from his 1633 collection The Temple: Sacred Poems.
In 1949, Vaughan Williams composed music for a short documentary film directed by Humphrey Jennings titled Dim Little Island. [14] With the assistance of Doreen Carwithen , Vaughan Williams adapted extensive portions of the Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus , with additional scoring for clarinet and voice, for the documentary's score. [ 14 ]
In setting the four hymns to music, Vaughan Williams chose poems by Jeremy Taylor, Isaac Watts, Richard Crashaw, and Robert Bridges (a translation from the Greek). The cycle is sometimes called Four Hymns for Tenor and Strings and performed in an orchestrated version with a string orchestra replacing the piano part.
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Sancta Civitas (The Holy City) is an oratorio by Ralph Vaughan Williams.Written between 1923 and 1925, it was his first major work since the Mass in G minor two years previously.
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 English manner since the sixteenth century. [1]
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Classics of Western Spirituality [CWS] is an English-language book series published by Paulist [1] Press since 1978, which offers a library of historical texts on Christian spirituality [2] as well as a representative selection of works on Jewish, Islamic, Sufi and Native American spirituality.