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	Ralph Vaughan Williams - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ralph Vaughan Williams, OM (October 12, 1872 – August 26, 1958) was an influential British composer.
		Born in Down Ampney, Gloucestershire, where his father Arthur Vaughan Williams was rector, he was taken by his mother to live with her family at Leith Hill Place, the Wedgwood family home in the North Downs, after his father's early death in 1875.
		Vaughan Williams is a central figure in British music because of his long career as teacher, lecturer and friend to so many younger composers and conductors.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ralph_Vaughan_Williams (1191 words)

	Composer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		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 direct use of folk-song in his three Norfolk Rhapsodies, his Fantasia on Greensleeves, for solo flute, harp and strings and in his English Folksong Suite for military band, among other works.
	www.naxos.com /composer/btm.asp?fullname=Vaughan+Williams,+Ralph (446 words)

	Symphony No. 5 (Vaughan Williams) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This opera, or "morality", as Vaughan Williams preferred to call it, had been in gestation for many years and the composer had temporarily abandoned it at the time the symphony was conceived.
		This movement is the spiritual core of the symphony, and indeed of Vaughan Williams' repertoire as a whole.
		The triumphant primary melody of the passacaglia is borrowed from Pilgrim's dialog with Interpreter in the second half of "The House Beautiful" scene, while the fanfare motif is reminiscent of "The Arming of the Pilgrim" in Act II Scene 1.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Symphony_No._5_(Vaughan_Williams) (512 words)

	The Musical Times: Ralph Vaughan Williams 1872-1958 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		At that time, though Vaughan Williams was by some years the eldest of us, he had not developed his later love of paradox; he was, in fact, just ‘one of us’, as the saying goes.
		Vaughan Williams, like Brahms (who never allowed a score to go through the press until he had heard it at least once), always liked to make sure of his orchestration, and I think he made some slight amendments after that rehearsal, as well as a few more after the work was printed.
		In the case of Vaughan Williams it was an early error in diagnosis that marked him down as an aesthete; a still grosser error that found in him an unregenerate technical clumsiness.
	www.musicaltimes.co.uk /archive/obits/195810williams.html (3891 words)

	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)

	Medialunchbox - Music : Ralph Vaughan Williams: Symphonies Nos. 3 & 5 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Third and Fifth symphonies of Vaughan Williams are among his most peaceful and serene of his works.
		The Fifth was written when Vaughan Williams was in his early 70ï¿½s, and the mood of reflection and peace associated with the music made...
		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.
	www.medialunchbox.com /ItemId/B000002S2P (554 words)

	Mendelssohn Club of Philadelphia - Program Notes
		Vaughan Williams was the director and principal conductor of the Leith Festival from 1905 to 1953; Holst organized and directed the Thaxted Festival; Britten founded and directed the Aldebourgh Festival.
		When Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) was asked by the Huddersfield Choral Society to write a piece in celebration of their centennial in 1937, he produced an eloquent plea for peace in Dona Nobis Pacem.
		Vaughan Williams returned to a setting of Whitman's Dirge for Two Veterans that he had originally written between 1911 and 1914.
	www.mcchorus.org /prognt12.htm (2898 words)

	Classical Net Review - Vaughan Williams - Sancta Civitas, Dona nobis pacem
		Vaughan Williams typically misreported the conversation to his disadvantage.
		Vaughan Williams wrote the "Dirge for Two Veterans" in 1914, possibly as part of a friendly competition with Holst.
		Vaughan Williams produced a symphonic march, not unlike the finale of his "London" symphony, which has grand, dramatic sweep.
	www.classical.net /music/recs/reviews/e/emi54788a.html (1784 words)

	Vaughan Williams
		Vaughan Williams studied with Parry, Wood and Stanford at the Royal College of Music and at Cambridge, then had further lessons with Bruch in Berlin and Ravel in Paris.
		It was only after this that he began to write with sureness in larger forms, even though some songs had had success in the early years of the century.
		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).
	www.musica.co.uk /composers/Vaughan_Williams.htm (381 words)

	Short biography
		Vaughan Williams is arguably the greatest composer Britain has seen since the days of Henry Purcell.
		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 (458 words)

	Vaughan Williams, Ralph -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The dominant English composer of the early 20th century was Ralph Vaughan Williams.
		Vaughan Williams was born on Oct. 12, 1872, in Down Ampney, Gloucestershire, England, the son of a clergyman.
		Béla Bartók's two sonatas for violin and piano were written for her; Maurice Ravel's Tzigane for Violin and Orchestra and Ralph Vaughan Williams' Violin Concerto were dedicated to her.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9277556?tocId=9277556 (659 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)

	Vaughan Williams Concerts 2005/6 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Vaughan Williams was introduced to the poetry of Walt Whitman in 1892 by fellow Cambridge undergraduate, Bertrand Russell.
		Vaughan Williams was the first Festival Conductor from 1905 to 1953 and some of his works received their first performances at the Festival.
		While conducting the Passions, Vaughan Williams was often moved to tears, such was the effect that the composer he considered to be the greatest, had on him.
	www.rvwsociety.com /concerts.html (3034 words)

	Vaughan Williams Links (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		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.
		According to Stokowski, Vaughan Williams was influential as a teacher (probably more as an older student – RVW did not take up teaching at the college until 1920).
	www.rvwsociety.com /links.html (1159 words)

	Vaughan Williams - The Lark Ascending
		In works ranging from symphonies and concerti to operas, ballets, and hymns, Vaughan Williams blended English folk song, hymnody, and Elizabethan music with themes inspired both by classical masters such as Bach and Handel and the impressionism of Ravel and Debussy.
		Born in Gloucestershire, Vaughan Williams studied both in England, at the Royal College of Music in London and at Trinity College in Cambridge, and with Max Bruch in Berlin and Maurice Ravel in Paris.
		Vaughan Williams's orchestral romance offers an impressionistic image of the lark's song and the countryside, with "our valley" represented by two folk tunes.
	www.barbwired.com /barbweb/programs/vaughanwilliams_lark.html (619 words)

	Ralph Vaughan Williams
		Ralph Vaughan Williams was born in 1872 at Down Ampney in South Gloucestershire.
		Vaughan Williams had fought over-age in WW1 (the legacy of which was increasing deafness), but this time, at almost 70, there was no chance of being called to active duty.
		Vaughan Williams' String Quartet (No. 2) in A minor, first performed in 1944 at one of the celebrated National Gallery concerts, contains the Nazi theme in it's Scherzo third movement, marked in the score `theme from the 49th Parallel'.
	www.powell-pressburger.org /Reviews/41_49P/49P_07.html (1375 words)

	VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Hodie. Fantasia on Christmas Carols. Varioius (EMI) - INKPOT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Like Bartók before him, Vaughan Williams uses no specific folk tunes in this work, but by this point in his career he had so synthesized their character into his being that his folk tune-like themes sound fully authentic.
		In this recording, there is power and clarity, but also a transparency, an almost palpable sense of atmosphere and an uncanny feel for the undercurrents swirling through Vaughan Williams' music, that were several of Wilcocks' hallmarks - all excellently captured by the EMI engineers.
		Vaughan Williams based this work, written in 1912, on four traditional carols - one of which, "There is a fountain," he quotes in music but not in text - and added fragments of other well-known tunes such as "The First Nowell [Noël]," "A Virgin Unspotted" and "The Wassail Bough."
	www.inkpot.com /classical/vwhodie_wil.html (1342 words)

	Table of contents for Library of Congress control number 95050620 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Vaughan Williams, Tallis and the Phantasy principle Anthony Pople 4.
		Vaughan Williams, Germany, and the German tradition: a view from the letters Hugh Cobbe 5.
		Vaughan Williams's folksong transcriptions: a case of idealization Julian Onderdonk 7.
	www.loc.gov /catdir/toc/cam023/95050620.html (181 words)

	Vaughan Williams, Butterworth, Antheil: Classical CD Reviews- December 2000 Music on the Web(UK) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		It is dramatic and exciting, though more portentous than Vaughan Williams's own recording, Stokowski not responding to the composer's whirlwind tempi which he must surely have heard.
		The Vaughan Williams is the high point of this CD.
		And it is the VW which commands your attention here: for the thrust of the argument, the immediacy and the rhythmic bite, make this a valuable addition to the available discography not only of Stokowski but also of Vaughan Williams.
	www.musicweb-international.com /classrev/2000/dec00/cala_LF.htm (449 words)

	Ralph Vaughan Williams (Conductor, Composer) - 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 (375 words)

	Vaughan Williams notes, Kenneth Martinson, Music Department, Western Illinois University, Macomb, Illinois (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Ralph Vaughan Williams (born Down Ampney, Gloucestershire, ENGLAND, Oct. 12, 1872; died London, Aug. 26, 1958) was the most important English composer of his generation, and he was a key figure in the 20
		Vaughan Williams had remarked on his own “amateurish technique”, which he said had dogged him all his life. His early frustrations had much to do with his deep dissatisfaction with the musical scene in
		The Six Studies on English Folksong are one of the only four Vaughan Williams instrumental-piano duo combinations (the other three being his Violin Sonata 1956, Suite de Ballet for flute and piano, and the Romance for viola and piano). This piece, although originally for cello, works extremely well on the viola.
	www.wiu.edu /music/articles/vaughanwilliamsnotes.htm (428 words)

	[Vaughan Williams - Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis] notes by Paul Serotsky (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Vaughan Williams believed that a composer “should make his art an expression of the whole life of the community”.
		The theme Vaughan Williams used is Tallis' Why Fumeth in Fight, the third of nine psalm tunes of 1567, written for Archbisop Parker's Psalter, and which Vaughan Williams had already included in his own English Hymnal.
		In his music Vaughan Williams, through his reworking of Tallis' resonant melody, creates an analogous continuity, a stairway from “now” receding into the mists of time.
	www.musicweb-international.com /Programme_Notes/rvw_tallis.htm (599 words)

	Vaughan-Williams
		In 1902, Vaughan Williams began collecting folk songs, and in 1906, he edited the English Hymnal.
		aughan William's style is a synthesis of the Brahms discipline, the Ravel texture and orchestral color, and English folk-song elements.
		A champion of British cultural heritage, Vaughan Williams was also active as a writer, editor, and musicologist.
	www.maurice-abravanel.com /vaughan-williams__english.html (2125 words)

	ipedia.com: Ralph Vaughan Williams Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Ralph Vaughan Williams was an influential British composer.
		He was a student at Trinity College, Cambridge and served as a lieutenant in World War I. He became a professor of music at Oxford in 1919.
		Ralph Vaughan Williams (October 12, 1872 - August 26, 1958) was an influential British composer.
	www.ipedia.com /ralph_vaughan_williams.html (831 words)

	VAUGHAN WILLIAMS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Suite from music for the film Scott of the Antarctic.
		This is an essential disk for collectors of film music, Volume I in a series devoted to music of Ralph Vaughan Williams.
		The film itself contained less than half the music Vaughan Williams wrote for it; the score had 996 bars, the film but 462, although some of them were used several times.
	classicalcdreview.com /rvwrg.htm (424 words)

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