You can follow along with a score of “Fantasia on Christmas Carols” available here (http://waltercosand.com/CosandScores/Composers%20Q-Z/Vaughan%20Williams,%20Ralph/Fantasia_on_Christmas_Carols__orch._score_.pdf) and there’s some really interesting history and analysis of this piece available to read for free here (https://archive.org/details/musicofralphvaug000664mbp/page/n141/mode/2up)
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Next we have “Fantasia on Christmas Carols”, a single movement folk song-based choral composition by Ralph Vaughan Williams 🇬🇧 (https://youtu.be/KaTxLnvM3UA?si=L07Q2saH80dMrmuu). It’s part of a series of English folk carols collected and arranged by RVW and his friend & collaborator musicologist Cecil Sharp (November 22, 1859-June 23, 1924)🇬🇧. It features several quotations of other carols (“The First Nowell”, etc).
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