Two Partsongs for mixed voices
SATB divisi
by Ralph Vaughan Williams
4-Part - Sheet Music

Choir Secular with Piano (SATB choir)

SKU: AP.12-0571530362

SATB divisi. Composed by Ralph Vaughan Williams. Masterworks; Performance Music Ensemble; Single Titles. Choral Programme Series. Choral. Choral Octavo. Faber Music #12-0571530362. Published by Faber Music (AP.12-0571530362).

ISBN 9780571530366. English.

Ralph Vaughan Williams' settings of Shakespeare's Sonnet 71 and Ben Johnson's 'Echo's Lament for Narcissus' are here published for the first time, and present a fascinating insight into the early development of one of Britain's greatest 20th Century composers. Written when Vaughan Williams was a student at the Royal College of Music, studying under Charles Standford, the two songs are an excellent and contrasted pair - the first addressing genuine mourning; the second a delightful madrigalian parody - and both make important and exciting additions to the choral repertory.