Vocal Scores - Choral
Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on Christmas Carols STAINER & BELL
XVS12 STAD55 9790220217128
Title: Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on Christmas Carols
Composer: Vaughan Williams, Ralph
Arrangement: SATB, Bar solo and piano or organ (SATB/ORG)
Media: Sheet Music
Edition Type: Vocal Score
Category: Vocal & Choral » Choral » Christmas
Category: Vocal & Choral » Choral » SATB
Publisher: Stainer & Bell
Catalogue Number: STAD55
Catalogue Number: D55
ISMN: 9790220217128 (M220217128)
This Fantasia is founded on the following traditional English carols: The Truth Sent From Above (Herefordshire) words and tune; Come All You Worthy Gentlemen (Somerset) words and tune; On Christmas Night (Sussex) words and tune; There Is A Fountain (Herefordshire) tune only; together with fragments of other well-known carol tunes.
The work is scored for ordinary full Orchestra with Organ and set of bells (ad lib.), or String Orchestra with Organ or Piano. Alternatively, it may be accompanied by Organ or Piano alone, played from the Vocal score, with an optional solo Cello part (H212). A chorus part for performance by solo Baritone and TTBB is also available (W41).
The chorus is required to sing in four different ways:
1. Singing the words.
2. Singing with closed lips.
3. Singing 'Ah'.
4. Singing with half-closed lips i.e. with a short 'u' sound as in the word 'but'.
