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	Classical Net - Vaughan Williams - Notes on the Symphonies
		Vaughan Williams did not number his first three symphonies, except by implication when he produced the Symphony No. 4.
		Vaughan Williams was indeed inspired by landscape, but not English landscape; rather, the landscape of wartime France.
		It sums up, to a certain extent, Vaughan Williams's musical idiom of the previous twenty years: the pastoral mode and polytonalism of the third symphony, the expanded dissonance and contrapuntal virtuosity of the fourth (although softened, by dynamics and orchestration), the "moonlight" music of the Serenade.
	www.classical.net /music/comp.lst/works/v-w/v-wsymoverview.html (1446 words)

	The National Archives \| DocumentsOnline \| Famous Names - Ralph Vaughan Williams
		In 1919 Vaughan Williams became Director of Music of the 1st Army British Expeditionary Force in France and subsequently was appointed Professor of Composition at the Royal College of Music.
		Vaughan Williams accepted the Order of Merit in 1938 and in 1955 he became the first musician to receive The Albert Medal of The Royal Society of Arts.
		Ralph Vaughan Williams is one of the 32 million names you can search on the 1901 Census for England and Wales which is ideal for researching your family tree.
	www.nationalarchives.gov.uk /documentsonline/medals-vaughanwilliams.asp (897 words)

	WILLIAMS, Ralph Vaughan.
		Ralph Bunche, a leading American diplomat after World War II, was the first African American to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
		In 1952, Ralph Waldo Ellison published his first and only novel, Invisible Man, a stark account of racial alienation that begins with the immortal lines:.
		Ralph S. Parr spent 32 years and five combat tours in the USAF.
	www.history.com /encyclopedia.do?articleId=225928 (516 words)

	Ralph Vaughan Williams Summary
		Vaughan Williams continued to write symphonies throughout his life; the last, his Ninth, was written shortly before his death when he was 86.
		Ralph (pronounced "rafe") was therefore born into the privileged intellectual upper middle class, but never took it for granted and worked tirelessly all his life for the democratic and egalitarian ideals he believed in.
		Vaughan Williams's music expresses a deep regard for and fascination with folk tunes, the variations upon which can convey the listener from the down-to-earth (which VW always tried to remain in his daily life) to that which is ethereal.
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	The Symphony - Ralph Vaughan Williams (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Ralph Vaughan Williams was born in Down Ampney, Gloucestershire, on 21st October, 1872, the son of a vicar.
		Vaughan Williams's musical education took place during a time when English folk-song was beginning to be studied seriously by composers, although little was known about how to discern genuine folk-tunes from composed imitations.
		Vaughan William's style is a synthesis of Brahmsian discipline, Ravelian texture and orchestral colour, and English folk-song elements.
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	NPRN Composer of the Month - Ralph Vaughn Williams
		Ralph (pronounced "Rafe") Vaughan Williams was born in Gloucestershire in 1872, and was arguably the greatest British composer of the 20th century.
		Vaughan Williams received his training from Hubert Parry and Charles Villiers Stanford, both composers influenced by Brahms.
		Early Vaughan Williams works have their moments of Brahms and sometimes Wagner, but it is also very original, due to Vaughan Williams' interest in English folksong (he was a major collector).
	net.unl.edu /musicFeat/composer/cmwilliams.html (296 words)

	Ralph Vaughan Williams - MSN Encarta
		Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958), the most distinguished English composer of the 20th century, whose music established a British national musical style.
		Born at Down Ampney on October 12, 1872, Vaughan Williams was educated at the University of Cambridge and the Royal College of Music in London.
		Vaughan Williams's nine symphonies include the London Symphony (1914; revised 1921) and the Pastoral Symphony (1922).
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	Ralph Vaughan Williams Biography. Listen to Classical Music by Ralph Vaughan Williams
		One of the leading English composers of his generation, Vaughan Williams was a pupil of Parry, Charles Wood and Stanford, and later of Bruch and Ravel.
		Vaughan Williams wrote nine symphonies, the first of these with solo singers, chorus and orchestra A Sea Symphony, with words taken from Walt Whitman, the second "A London" Symphony and the third a "Pastoral" Symphony.
		Vaughan Williams made a substantial contribution to English choral and vocal repertoire in compositions that include the fine Serenade to Music, completed in 1938.
	www.naxos.com /mainsite/default.asp?pn=Composers&char=V&ComposerID=1073 (635 words)

	Composers [Vaughan Williams, Ralph]
		Vaughan Williams studied with Parry, Wood, and Stanford at the Royal College of Music and Cambridge, and then had further lessons with Bruch in Berlin (1897), and Ravel in Paris (1908).
		It was not until after 1908 that he began to compose in larger forms with confidence, although some of his songs had had success in the early 1900s.
		The led to the subsequent triumph in his Fantasia on a Theme by Tallis for strings which led Vaughan Williams to a new larger scale form.
	www.rmjs.co.uk /composer/cvaughan.htm (388 words)

	Ralph Vaughan Williams Society Publications
		Ursula Vaughan Williams brings to her autobiography the same evocative use of language, clarity of expression and vivid imagery which distinguishes her poetry and novels.
		It is a fascinating story, which describes Ursula's contribution to Vaughan Williams' life and works in the 20 years to his death in 1958.
		While Ursula Vaughan Williams does not belong to any school of poetry, the influence of certain writers can be detected in her work.
	www.rvwsociety.com /albionbooks.html (1169 words)

	Ralph Vaughan Williams (Composer, Arranger, Conductor) - Short Biography
		At the turn of the century Ralph Vaughan Williams was among the very first to travel into the countryside to collect folk-songs and carols from singers, notating them for future generations to enjoy.
		Ralph Vaughan Williams volunteered to serve in the Field Ambulance Service in Flanders for the 1914 - 1918 war, during which he was deeply affected by the carnage and the loss of close friends such as the composer George Butterworth.
		In his lifetime, Ralph Vaughan Williams eschewed all honours with the exception of the Order of Merit which was conferred upon him in 1938.
	www.bach-cantatas.com /Bio/Vaughan-Williams-Ralph.htm (376 words)

	Ralph Vaughan Williams Biography
		Vaughan Williams was born in 1872 in the Cotswold village of Down Ampney.
		Vaughan Williams volunteered to serve in the Field Ambulance Service in Flanders for the 1914–1918 war, during which he was deeply affected by the carnage and the loss of close friends such as the composer George Butterworth.
		In his lifetime, Vaughan Williams eschewed all honours with the exception of the Order of Merit which was conferred upon him in 1938.
	www.rvwsociety.com /biography.html (413 words)

	Ralph Vaughan Williams
		Vaughan Williams might well have rested on his laurels at this point, content merely to propagate an easily assimilated nationalistic style.
		Predictably, the critics were less than happy, although a month after the première, Vaughan Williams received the news that the King had awarded him the Order of Merit - he had previously refused a knighthood - "in recognition of the distinguished contribution which you have made to the music of our time".
		Although it was after his 80th birthday that Vaughan Williams set about composing his last three symphonies, he managed to constantly bring new ideas to his work.
	www.classicfm.com /Article.asp?id=251362&spid=9978 (752 words)

	VAUGHAN WILLIAMS, Ralph (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Born at Down Ampney on Oct. 12, 1872, Vaughan Williams was educated at the University of Cambridge and the Royal College of Music in London.
		Vaughan Williams's nine symphonies include the London Symphony (1914; rev. 1921) and the Pastoral Symphony (1922).
		The Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis (1909) is for double string orchestra.
	www.history.com /encyclopedia.do?articleId=225063 (810 words)

	Ralph Vaughan Williams, Mélodies
		I have trod the upwrd and the downward slope (1:52)
		But the musical elaboration is far from being just simple and popular : Ralph Vaughan Williams employs refined means of composition, in order to realise varied colours and moods ; and he offers the voice the possibility to sing magnificent phrasing and to evoke strong emotional impact.
		Ralph Vaughan Williams' House of Life is inspired by the allegoric love poetry of the painter-poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882) and unveils his inclination to mysticism.
	www.voiceoflyrics.com /ic/201/201_e.html (218 words)

	Ralph Vaughan Williams Society Links
		Vaughan Williams became the first festival conductor (click to see our page) in 1905, a post which he held until his retirement in 1955 although he continued to conduct until the year of his death in 1958.
		Vaughan Williams wrote "It is better to be vitally parochial than to be an emasculate cosmopolitan.
		Vaughan Williams was 69 when he wrote the music for the film, The 49th Parallel.
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	Ralph Vaughan Williams
		The sound, with its sense of natural objects seen in a transfigured light, placed Vaughan Williams in a powerfully English visionary tradition, and made very plausible his association of his music with Blake (in the ballet Job) and Bunyan (in the opera The Pilgrim's Progress).
		His study of folksong, however, certainly facilitated the pastoral tone of The Lark Ascending, for violin and orchestra, and then of the Pastoral Symphony.
		At the beginning of the 1920s there followed a group of religious works continuing the visionary manner: the unaccompanied Mass in g Minor, the Revelation oratorio Sancta civitas and the 'pastoral episode' The Shepherds of the Delectable Mountains, later incorporated in The Pilgrim's Progress.
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	Roger Williams
		Vaughan Williams - Serenade to Music · Five Mystical Songs · Fantasia on Christmas Carols...
		by William Shimell, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Vernon Handley, Colin Chambers, and Mair Jones
		Vaughan Williams: The Shepherds of the Delectable Mountains
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	About the Ralph Vaughan Williams Society
		For a composer of Vaughan Williams's international stature, there remained in the early 1990s many gaps in performances and recordings of his work.
		Even the symphonies –; surely Vaughan Williams' most endearing legacy as a composer –; had never been performed as a complete cycle in London.
		To substantially widen the knowledge, understanding and appreciation of the music of Ralph Vaughan Williams, both in Britain and abroad.
	www.rvwsociety.com /aboutsociety.html (350 words)

	Ralph Vaughan Williams
		Ralph (pronounced "Rafe") Vaughan Williams is perhaps best known for his work for strings Fantasia on Greensleeves.
		Vaughan Williams composed continually because he had to.
		Vaughan William's contribution, a four movement work, was neither a competition entrant nor a commission.
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	Hymnology: Ralph Vaughan Williams
		Ralph Vaughan Williams was the most significant figure in English church music during the first half of the 20th century and the most important English composer of his generation.
		Vaughan Williams [was the musical editor] for three important collections of church music: The English Hymnal (1906); Songs of Praise (1925 and 1931, with Percy Dearmer and Martin Shaw); and the Oxford Book of Carols (1928, with Percy Dearmer and Martin Shaw).
		Vaughan Willams wrote the famous Introduction to The English Hymnal (1906) in which he stated that the book contained "the best hymns in the English language" and ventured the epic statement that "good taste is a moral rather than a musical issue."
	www.smithcreekmusic.com /Hymnology/British.Hymnody/Vaughan.Williams.html (469 words)

	Amazon.com: Ralph Vaughan Williams: Symphonies Nos. 3 & 5: Music: Ralph Vaughan Williams,Sir Adrian Boult,London ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		I remember my first encounter with Vaughan Williams; it was, of course, his Symphony No. 2 ("London")--- and doesn't it always seem to be THIS particular symphony, especially when you're young, like I was, and open to music you may never have heard.
		With the ageless Sir Adrian at the podium, Vaughan Williams' Symphonies 3 and 5 are as beautiful, and bountiful, a coupling as one could wish for--- and in peerless performances like these, they bring tears to the eyes.
		The Fifth was written when Vaughan Williams was in his early 70s, and the mood of reflection and peace associated with the music made may think the composer had entered a state of restful reflection.
	www.amazon.com /Ralph-Vaughan-Williams-Symphonies-Nos/dp/B000002S2P (1953 words)

	Agentsmith ::
		RVW pictured in 1942 with his favourite cat, Foxy.
		Ralph (pronounced "Rafe") Vaughan Williams was born in Gloucestershire in 1872, and is arguably Britain's greatest ever composer.
		If you've read everything here and are keen to find out more about RVW and his music, why not visit the RVW Society.
	www.agentsmith.com /rvw.php (127 words)

	SurfWax: News, Reviews and Articles On Ralph Vaughan Williams
		Ralph Vaughan Williams, a professor at the Royal College of Music when Britten was a student there, was at the height of his influence during Britten's youth.
		Ralph Vaughan Williams was not so much a believer, yet his music is perfectly accepted.
		In fact, composer Ralph Vaughan Williams 7th symphony, The Antarctica Symphony, was based on his score for Scott of the Antarctic.
	news.surfwax.com /music/files/Ralph_Vaughan_Williams_music.html (1907 words)

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