Dr. Dani Sanchez on Nostr: Ralph Vaughan Williams’s “Folk Songs of the Four Seasons” () is a cantata ...

Ralph Vaughan Williams’s “Folk Songs of the Four Seasons” (https://youtu.be/dWetJEGQlU4?si=kQThG6lsmfleffDx) is a cantata written for women/treble voices grouped into the four seasons based on English folk songs from the late medieval period (one of RVW’s special interests) this is “Autumn” which is comprised of the songs “John Barleycorn”, “The Unquiet Grave” and “An Acre of Land”. You can follow along with a free score available here (https://archive.org/details/folksongsoffours00unse/page/30/mode/2up)
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