Silence & music : from 'A Garland for the Queen', a cycle of songs for mixed voices by ten British composers to mark the occasion of the coronation of H.M. Queen Elizabeth II

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Silence & music : from 'A Garland for the Queen', a cycle of songs for mixed voices by ten British composers to mark the occasion of the coronation of H.M. Queen Elizabeth II

R. Vaughan Williams ; poem by Ursula Wood

Oxford University Press, c1953

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Silence and music : part song for mixed voices

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Vaughan Williams, Ralph, 1872-1958 -- Silence and music

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Part song for four mixed unaccompanied voices; keyboard reduction included for rehearsal only

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for SATB unaccompanied Vaughan Williams composed this setting of a poem by his wife Ursula in 1953 to form part of A Garland for the Queen, a collection of ten tributes to the newly-crowned Queen Elizabeth II by leading British composers and poets. It is dedicated 'to the memory of Charles Villiers Stanford, and his Blue Bird', and reflects Stanford's masterpiece in its harmonic language, floating soprano part, unaccompanied scoring, and haunting atmosphere.

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