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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.
Vaughan Williams subsequently transcribed several versions of the song during his ethnomusicological surveys. One of these he heard in 1904, in the village of Kingsfold, near the town of Horsham . It was this version that he included in The English Hymnal in 1906, bearing the title "Kingsfold".
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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 English manner since the sixteenth century. [1]
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.
Music to Five Poems by J. P. Jacobsen, Op. 4 (1891), songs composed by Carl Nielsen; Five Songs from the Norwegian (1888), a compositions by Frederick Delius; Five Mystical Songs (1906–1911), by Ralph Vaughan Williams; Five Flower Songs (1950), by Benjamin Britten; 5 Songs Dedicated to Louis Hornbeck, compositions by Edvard Grieg
Although many of the songs of realization date from the mahasiddha of India, the tradition of composing mystical songs continued to be practiced by tantric adepts in later times and examples of spontaneously composed verses by Tibetan lamas exist up to the present day, an example being Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso Rinpoche. [3]
"Whither Must I Wander" is a song composed by Ralph Vaughan Williams whose lyrics consist of a poem by Robert Louis Stevenson.The Stevenson poem, entitled Home no more home to me, whither must I wander?, [1] forms part of the collection of poems and songs called Songs of Travel and Other Verses [2] published in 1895, [3] and is originally intended to be sung to the tune of "Wandering Willie ...