Serenade to Music (Vaughan Williams, Ralph)

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		Composition Year 1938 Genre Categories Serenades; For 16 voices, orchestra; Scores featuring the voice; Scores featuring the soprano voice; Scores featuring the alto voice; Scores featuring the tenor voice; Scores featuring the bass voice; Scores featuring the orchestra; For voices with orchestra; English language

Sheet Music

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Full Scores

 Complete Score (CA)
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Madcapellan (2012/2/26)

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London: Oxford University Press, 1961. n.p.

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Public Domain - Non-PD US, Non-PD EU [tag/del]

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600 dpi

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Vocal Scores

 Complete Score (CA)
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Madcapellan (2011/9/25)

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London: Oxford University Press, 1938. n.p.

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Public Domain - Non-PD US, Non-PD EU [tag/del]

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600 dpi

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General Information

Work Title	Serenade to Music
Alternative Title

Composer	Vaughan Williams, Ralph
Year/Date of Composition	1938
First Performance	1938, October 5
Librettist	William Shakespeare (1564–1616), from The Merchant of Venice, Act V, Scene I
Language	English
Average Duration	14 minutes
Piece Style	Early 20th century
Instrumentation	4 sopranos, 4 altos, 4 tenors, 4 basses, orchestra

Misc. Comments

The singers in the first performance, for Sir Henry Wood’s Jubilee, were:

Sopranos: Stiles Allen, Isobel Baillie, Elsie Suddaby, Eva Turner

Altos: Margaret Balfour, Muriel Brunskill, Astra Desmond, Mary Jarred

Tenors: Parry Jones, Heddle Nash, Frank Titterton, Walter Widdop

Basses: Norman Allin, Robert Easton, Roy Henderson, Harold Williams