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Symphony No. 6 in E Minor ... Read more

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This album contains the best of Vaughan Williams' own short pieces for organ, together with a selection of his popular compositions arranged by others. ... Read more

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Titles: Rondo CapricciosoRomanceMinuet and TrioAllegro Moderato ... Read more

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for SATB and congregation with brass
These are the set of brass parts (3 trumpets, 3 trombones, and timpani) to accompany this well-known anthem arranged by Vaughan Williams and based on the tune 'Miles Lane' by W. Shrubsole. ... Read more

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for tuba and piano
This piano reduction provides the perfect accompaniment to the most celebrated orchestral work for tuba. ... Read more

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Chapters: 49th Parallel, Coastal Command, Scott of the Antarctic, the Loves of Joanna Godden. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 24. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: 49th Parallel is the third film made by the British writer-director team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. It was released in the United States as The Invaders. Despite the title, no scene in the movie is set at the 49th parallel, which forms much of the U.S.-Canadian border. The only border scene is at Niagara Falls, which is located farther south. The British Ministry of Information approached Michael Powell to make a propaganda film for them, suggesting he make "a film about mine-sweeping." Instead, Powell decided to make a different film to help sway opinions in the still-neutral United States. Said Powell, "I hoped it might scare the pants off the Americans ." Screenwriter Emeric Pressburger remarked, "Goebbels considered himself an expert on propaganda, but I thought I'd show him a thing or two." After persuading the British and Canadian governments, Powell started location filming in 1940. Early in the Second World War, Nazi survivors of a German U-boat sunk in Hudson Bay attempt to evade capture by travelling across Canada to the still-neutral United States the title comes from the 49th parallel north which marks part of the border between the two countries. Led by Lieutenants Hirth and Kuhnecke, the small band of sailors encounter a wide range of people, including a French-Canadian trapper, pacifistic German Hutterite farmers and an eccentric English academic who despite being wounded helps capture a Nazi. Finally, it all comes down to a confrontation between the sole remaining fugitive at large, Hirth, and AWOL Canadian soldier Andy Brock on a freight train. When Hirth learns the train has crossed into...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=1273501 ... Read more

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for string orchestra and piano or harp with 2 optional flutes or solo violins This is the original orchestral version of Vaughan Williams' fantasia which famously features the tune 'Greensleeves'. Arranged from the opera, Sir John in Love. ... Read more

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Suitable for S(S)ATB unaccompanied, this work contains settings of texts from "The Tempest" and "A Midsummer Night's Dream". ... Read more

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for SATB and organ or SATB and brass, percussion, and organ A version arranged by Brubaker for brass is available for sale. ... Read more

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Inexpensive compilation includes great title piece—one of the most frequently performed and recorded works in the modern orchestral repertoire—along with Norfolk Rhapsody No. 1, Overture to "The Wasps," and the Fantasia on Christmas Carols. Reproduced from authoritative early editions.
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Diverse presentation of music of RVW

Worth the investment!!Some excellent choices to open the world of the music of this superb 20th century composer.Scores are easy to read even though there are some print issues as to format, but not enough to avoid getting this collection. The Norfolk Rhapsody is simply beautiful and with a solid recording with this score in hand, should give any serious musician great pleasure to study, especially the scoring RVW masterfully utilizes.Along with The Wasps Overture, Christmas Carols, and Tallis, one can get a true insight to the creative style of this composer.

Tallis Fantasia-Beautiful
The Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis is one of the most beautiful works ever for string orchestra. Anyone with an inclination towards Ralph Vaughn Williams or just English music would love this piece. The score is easy to read and the 1st and 2nd orchetras and the solo string quartet are easily distinguished. ... Read more

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Cantata adapted from the opera Sir John in Love, for mixed chorus and orchestra or mixed chorus, strings, and piano
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The book comprises a selection of some 750 letters of the composer, Ralph Vaughan Williams, selected from an extant corpus of about 3,300. The letters are arranged chronologically and have been chosen to provide a cumulative pen-picture of the composer in his own words. In general the letters reflect VW's major preoccupations: musical, personal and political. It was not VW's way to discuss his inner creative processes but he does discuss his music, once it had been written: for example there is much to illustrate the process of 'washing the face' of his major pieces before, and after, they had reached the concert platform. There is correspondence with collaborators such as Gilbert Murray, Harold Child and Evelyn Sharpe who provided texts; with his publishers (mainly OUP) about printing scores and parts; with conductors such as Adrian Boult and John Barbirolli about performances. He was in regular correspondence with fellow composers such as Gustav Holst, George Butterworth, Gerald Finzi, Herbert Howells, John Ireland, Alan Bush and Rutland Boughton. There were his pupils: Elizabeth Maconchy and Cedric Thorpe Davie amongst others. A series of close personal friendships is well represented: his Cambridge contemporary and cousin Ralph Wedgwood, Edward Dent, and latterly Michael Kennedy. Above all there are insights on his lifelong devotion to his first wife, Adeline, and his growing friendship with Ursula Wood, who was to become his second wife.

In general the book paints a self-portrait of Vaughan Williams not only as a great composer but as a large-minded and public-spirited personality who towered over the British musical world for forty years. ... Read more

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The composer’s first large-scale orchestral composition, profoundly original, rich and picturesque in scoring, classical and balanced in structure. First performed in 1914, it is reprinted here from the authoritative Stainer & Bell edition (1920). Instrumentation.
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Symphony No.2 -"A London Symphony"
Simply wonderful! One of best works written for orchestra. All VaughnWilliams fans needs to check this one out. ... Read more