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PRONUNCIATION OF VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

Vaughan Williams  [ˈwɪljəmz] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

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WHAT DOES VAUGHAN WILLIAMS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Ralph Vaughan Williams

Ralph Vaughan Williams OM was an English composer of symphonies, chamber music, opera, choral music, and film scores. He was also a collector of English folk music and song; this collecting activity influenced both his editorial approach to the English Hymnal, in which he included many folk song arrangements as hymn tunes, and several of his own original compositions.

Definition of Vaughan Williams in the English dictionary

The definition of Vaughan Williams in the dictionary is Ralph. 1872–1958, English composer, inspired by British folk songs and music of the Tudor period. He wrote operas, symphonies, hymns, and choral music.

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doldrums
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hiems
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mediums
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princedoms
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Williams
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Synonyms and antonyms of Vaughan Williams in the English dictionary of synonyms

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沃恩·威廉斯
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Vaughan Williams
570 millions of speakers

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Vaughan Williams
510 millions of speakers

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वॉन विलियम्स
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فوغان ويليامس
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Воан-Уильямс
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Vaughan Williams
270 millions of speakers

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ভন উইলিয়ামস
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Vaughan Williams
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Vaughan Williams
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Vaughan Williams
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ヴォーン·ウィリアムズ
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본입 윌리엄스
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Vaughan Williams
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Vaughan Williams
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வாகன் வில்லியம்ஸ்
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वॉन विल्यम्स
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Vaughan Williams
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Vaughan Williams
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Vaughan Williams
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Воан - Вільямс
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Vaughan Williams
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Vaughan Williams
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Vaughan Williams
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Vaughan Williams
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Vaughan Williams
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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «VAUGHAN WILLIAMS»

Discover the use of Vaughan Williams in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to Vaughan Williams and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Vaughan Williams on Music
This book makes a substantial collection of Vaughan Williams's writings widely available to music lovers, students, and researchers alike.
David Manning, 2007
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Vaughan Williams Essays
The essays that comprise t
Byron Adams, Robin Wells, 2003
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Vaughan Williams Studies
A collection of essays on Vaughan Williams explores his musical language, cultural context and biography.
Alain Frogley, 2008
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The Works of Ralph Vaughan Williams
This is the authoritative account of Vaughan Williams's musical life-- the story of a great composer's career, and at the same time the story of music in England for over half a century.
Michael Kennedy, 1992
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Vaughan Williams
The life and music of one of the major British composers of the twentieth century.
Michael Hurd, 1970
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Vaughan Williams
I enjoyed this little book enormously.'Spectator 'An affectionate, accurate and shrewd account of Vaughan Williams' life ... the author's astute commentary on it betokens close and knowledgeable acquaintance.' Sunday Telegraph
Simon Heffer, 2014
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Vaughan Williams: a life in photographs
The visual images are set with captions, many of them quotations from Ursula Vaughan Williams's unique biography, RVW. Here is an entirely novel view of Vaughan Williams, his music and his life.
Jerrold Northrop Moore, 1992
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Vaughan Williams: His Life and Times
This biography draws on letters, diaries and personal reminiscences to tell the story of Vaughan Williams.
Paul Holmes, 1997
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Critical Security Studies
This new four-volume collection from Routledge provides a timely anthology of the subdiscipline’s best and most influential scholarship to help users make sense of a now dizzyingly large body of literature and a continuing explosion in ...
Nick Vaughan-Williams, Columba Peoples, 2012
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English Folk Songs
This collection is filled with songs that tell of the pleasures and pains of love, the patterns of the countryside and the lives of ordinary people.
Ralph Vaughan Williams, 2009

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «VAUGHAN WILLIAMS»

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Proms 2015: Prom 17, Hallé – Debussy, Vaughan Williams & Elgar …
To open a concert featuring two large-scale works by Vaughan Williams and Elgar with Debussy's sleepily erotic Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune might risk ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Aug 15»
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Prom 16, Royal Albert Hall - review: Vaughan Williams's Sancta …
Vaughan Williams was fonder of his Sancta civitas than of any of his other choral works, perhaps – as Malcolm Hayes suggests in a felicitous programme-note ... «The Independent, Jul 15»
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Ralph Vaughan Williams's lost masterpiece
Next Thursday we shall hear the first performance at the Proms of Ralph Vaughan Williams's oratorio Sancta Civitas. Completed in 1925, it was the composer's ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jul 15»
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Vaughan Williams/MacMillan: Oboe Concertos review – a bravura …
The long, sinuous song that is Vaughan Williams's beguiling oboe concerto is something of a calling card for Nicholas Daniel. He won the BBC young musician ... «The Guardian, May 15»
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Odyssey Opera opens British festival with delightful Vaughan
Vaughan Williams wove a number of sixteenth-century English folksongs into his score, including “Sumer Is Icumin In” and “Greensleeves.” Moreover, the music ... «Boston Classical Review, May 15»
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Vaughan Williams' Sixth Symphony has its CSO premiere
Ralph Vaughan Williams' Symphony No. 6 may be the most remarkable piece you've never heard. On Friday morning, the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra gave ... «Cincinnati.com, Apr 15»
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Ralph Vaughan Williams' Lark Ascending tops Classic FM's Hall of …
Ralph Vaughan Williams's work topped the Classic FM Hall of Fame after listeners cast more than 200,000 votes. It topped the poll last year as well and four ... «Daily Mail, Apr 15»
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Vaughan Williams, Butterworth, Moeran, Finzi: Bright is the Ring of …
George Butterworth's A Shropshire Lad and Vaughan Williams's Songs of Travel, natural pastoral partners, have been recorded many times, but never perhaps ... «The Guardian, Apr 15»
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Review: Orchestra program sings like a lark
For the first program in the Minnesota Orchestra's three-week “Spirit and Spring” series, Osmo Vänskä has programmed works by Vaughan Williams and ... «Minneapolis Star Tribune, Apr 15»
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Vaughan Williams's Symphony No 4 – which recording is best?
No work by Ralph Vaughan Williams has caused more of a stir or given rise to greater speculation than his craggy and ferocious Symphony in F minor. «Gramophone, Apr 15»

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