Artist: Ralph Vaughan Williams
Ralph Vaughan Williams's lyrics & chords
Ralph Vaughan Williams, OM (1872–1958) was an influential English composer. Vaughan Williams was born on 12th October 1872 in Down Ampney, a village in the Cotswolds. After attending Charterhouse School and Trinity College, Cambridge, he became a student at the Royal College of Music; he later studied with Max Bruch in Berlin and Maurice Ravel in Paris. He served as a lieutenant in World War I, having volunteered for the Field Ambulance Service; the appalling carnage affected him deeply, as did the deaths of close friends such as George Bu...read more
Three elizabethan part songs The truth sent from above Magnificat O little town of bethlehem Lento moderato For all the saints Bushes and briars Thomas tallis fantasia Loch lomond Elizabethan serenade Allegro Valiant for truth Seventeen come sunday Dives and lazarus The old hundreth psalm tune Orpheus with his lute O we can wait no longer Moderato pesante Ring out your bells He who would valiant be Distant glacier Andante sostenuto The unquiet grave Today a rude brief recitative How can the tree but wither? Love is a sickness O how amiable A london symphony Main titles Suite of six short pieces The sky above the roof Full fathom five A pennant universal Token of all brave captains Andante tranquillo O thou transcendent Greensleves fantasia An oxford elegy March past of the kitchen utensils Old hundredth Fain would i change that note The new commonwealth Dona nobis pacem A sea symphony no 1 behold the sea itself My bonny boy An acre of land The souls of the righteous Greater than stars or suns Pony march The lark ascending – romance for violin and orchestra Down from the gardens of asia descending Dreamland Blizzard Adagio Climbing the glacier Aurora
