To the ploughboy

ISBN 10: 0193857944 ISBN 13: 9780193857940

Publisher: Oxford University Press Music, 1987

Synopsis

for unison treble chorus with SA semi-chorus, and piano or orchestra or strings and piano
Part of the cantata, Folk Songs of the Four Seasons.
Instrumental material is available on hire.

About this title

About the Author

Ralph Vaughan Williams, born in Gloucestershire on 12 October 1872, read History at Cambridge and went to the Royal College of Music where his teachers were Parry, Wood, and Stanford. Vaughan Williams believed in the value of music education and wrote practical competition pieces, serviceable church music, and with the 49th Parallel (1940-41) he found a new outlet in writing for film. His profoundly disturbing Symphony No.6 (1948) received international acclaim with more than a hundred performances in a little over two years. His great sensitivity to the 20th-century human condition, his flexibility in writing for all levels of music making, and his unquestionably great imagination combine to make him one of the key figures in 20th century music. Ralph Vaughan Williams had a long association with Oxford University Press; over 200 publications are available in the Oxford catalogue.

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press Music
• Publication date: 1987
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0193857944
• ISBN 13: 9780193857940
• Binding: Sheet music
• Number of pages: 8