Ralph Vaughan Williams Catalogue
Discover the music of Ralph Vaughan Williams published by OUP. ‘No one composer can fully cater to all one's moods...but Vaughan Williams's music comes closest to being the perfect companion on that mythical desert island.’ Alain Frogley, BBC Music Magazine
Discover the music of Ralph Vaughan Williams published by OUP.
‘No one composer can fully cater to all one's moods...but Vaughan Williams's music comes closest to being the perfect companion on that mythical desert island.’
Alain Frogley, BBC Music Magazine
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Solo Voice<br />
Along the Field<br />
High voice and violin<br />
Vocal score 9780193459311<br />
Eight settings of poems by A. E. Houseman with lyric violin<br />
accompaniment.<br />
Available from Banks Music Publications<br />
Greensleeves<br />
High voice and piano<br />
Vocal score 9780193459342<br />
<strong>Vaughan</strong> Willliams made numerous arrangements of the<br />
old English folk song Greensleeves throughout his career.<br />
This version, taken from his opera Sir John in Love, is<br />
transposed to the higher key of A minor.<br />
Available from Banks Music Publications<br />
Six English Folksongs<br />
Voice and piano<br />
Vocal score 9780193377523<br />
Available from Banks Music Publications<br />
Ten Blake Songs<br />
High voice and oboe<br />
Vocal score 9780193850262<br />
These songs for tenor or soprano and oboe were<br />
composed for the film The Vision of William Blake, in which<br />
all except the second and third songs of the set were used<br />
alongside music from Job to form the soundtrack. The<br />
settings richly conjure the moods and sentiments of Blake’s<br />
poems, the first nine of which are from Songs of Innocence<br />
and of Experience, with the final song setting words from<br />
his poem Auguries of Experience. The oboe part may<br />
alternatively be played on the violin or on B-flat clarinet,<br />
though the composer stated that oboe was preferable.<br />
Infant Joy • A Poison Tree • The Piper • London • The Lamb •<br />
The shepherd • Ah! Sun-flower • Cruelty has a human heart<br />
• The divine image • Eternity<br />
19 minutes<br />
Solo Voice<br />
Three Vocalises<br />
Soprano and B-flat clarinet<br />
Vocal score 9780193850279<br />
This set of three brief vocalises for soprano and clarinet<br />
comprises a Prelude, Scherzo, and Quasi menuetto.<br />
The Prelude is otherworldly, with flowing phrases and<br />
chromatic melodic lines. The Scherzo contrasts in its<br />
playfulness, while the Quasi menuetto makes an attractive<br />
ending to the set. They were composed during the final<br />
year of the composer’s life in 1958, not long after the<br />
composition of the Ten Blake Songs for voice and oboe.<br />
Prelude • Scherzo • Quasi Menuetto<br />
5 minutes<br />
Two English Folk Songs<br />
Voice and violin<br />
Vocal score 9780193459564<br />
Available from Banks Music Publications<br />
Two French Folk Songs<br />
Voice and piano<br />
Vocal score 9780193386280<br />
Available from Banks Music Publications<br />
Two Poems by Seumas O’Sullivan<br />
Voice and piano<br />
Vocal score 9780193397682<br />
Two settings of texts by Seumas O’Sullivan including ‘The<br />
Twilight People’ (also in <strong>Vaughan</strong> <strong>Williams</strong> Collected Songs<br />
Volume 2) and ‘A Piper’.<br />
Available from Banks Music Publications<br />
The Water Mill<br />
Voice and piano<br />
High voice (E flat major) 9780193459588<br />
Low voice (C major) 9780193459571<br />
This well-known song sets a text full of pastoral imagery<br />
by Fredegond Shove, beautifully brought to life by<br />
<strong>Vaughan</strong> <strong>Williams</strong> trademark folk-inspired melodies,<br />
fluid harmonies, and a lively piano accompaniment. The<br />
low voice version is also published in <strong>Vaughan</strong> <strong>Williams</strong><br />
Collected Songs Volume 2.<br />
Collected Songs<br />
Collected Songs<br />
Medium voice and piano<br />
Volume 1 9780193459274<br />
Volume 2 9780193853089<br />
Volume 3 9780193459298<br />
This three-volume collection comprises the bulk of the<br />
solo songs that <strong>Vaughan</strong> <strong>Williams</strong> published with Oxford<br />
University Press. They span the whole of his long life,<br />
ranging from the early ‘How can the Tree but Wither?’<br />
(composed around 1896) to the Four Last Songs (from<br />
1954–8, his final years) and include many of the composer’s<br />
most popular songs.<br />
Contents<br />
Volume 1:<br />
Three songs from Shakespeare*:<br />
Take, O Take<br />
When Icicles Hang by the Wall<br />
Orpheus with his Lute<br />
Three poems by Walt Whitman:<br />
Nocturne<br />
A Clear Midnight<br />
Joy, Shipmate, Joy!<br />
Greensleeves<br />
Four Last Songs:<br />
Procris<br />
Tired<br />
Hands, Eyes, and Heart<br />
Menelaus<br />
*Available individually from Banks Music Publications<br />
Volume 2:<br />
Four Poems by Fredegond Shove:<br />
Motion and Stillness<br />
Four Nights<br />
The New Ghost*<br />
The Water Mill<br />
See the Chariot at Hand<br />
In the Spring<br />
How can the Tree but Wither?*<br />
The Twilight People<br />
Volume 3:<br />
Seven Songs from `The Pilgrim’s Progess’:<br />
Watchful’s Song<br />
The Song of the Pilgrims<br />
The Pilgrim’s Psalm<br />
The Song of the Leaves of Life and the Water of Life (duet)<br />
The Song of Vanity Fair<br />
The Woodcutter’s Song*<br />
The Bird’s Song*<br />
Solo Voice<br />
Available from Banks Music Publications<br />
When I Am Dead, My Dearest<br />
Voice and piano<br />
Vocal score 9780193409576<br />
Available from Banks Music Publications<br />
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