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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.
Old King Cole (1923) for orchestra and optional chorus; On Christmas Night (1926): masque adapted from A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens; Job: A Masque for Dancing (1930) . The Voice out of the Whirlwind, Motet for mixed choir and organ or orchestra; adapted from "Galliard of the Sons of the Morning" from Job
The text of one song, The Long Whip, seems to have been lost completely as a result. Vaughan Williams knew that the texts of many of the songs he was preserving had been printed as broadsides and he sometimes used broadside texts to fill out his songs for publication. He did not bowdlerise the material he collected for publication, as some ...
Vaughan Williams in 1955. The Symphony No. 9 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 performance in London by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Sir Malcolm Sargent on 2 April 1958, in the composer's eighty-sixth year.
Vaughan Williams chose verses 1,2,5–8 (in the King James Version numbering) from Psalm 47, [2] a psalm calling to exalt God as the King of "all the earth" with hands, voices and instruments. [2] The Hebrew original mentions the shofar, which is given as trumpet in English. [7] He set the text in one movement in B-flat major, marked Allegro.
On Wenlock Edge is a song cycle composed in 1909 by Ralph Vaughan Williams for tenor, piano and string quartet. [1] The cycle comprises settings of six poems from A. E. Housman's 1896 collection A Shropshire Lad.
Following the composition of Five Mystical Songs in 1911, Vaughan Williams began to compose a smaller scale piece, which was completed in 1914. However, World War I delayed the presentation of the song cycle until 1920.
The single-movement work of roughly twelve minutes consists of the English folk carols "The truth sent from above", "Come all you worthy gentlemen" and the Sussex Carol ("On Christmas night all Christians sing"), all folk songs collected in southern England by Vaughan Williams and his friend Cecil Sharp a few years earlier. [2]