Ralph Vaughan Williams - Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
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Published 2013-04-21
Piece: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis (1910)
*Tallis's original tune is in the Phrygian mode and was one of nine he contributed to the Psalter of 1567 for the Archbishop of Canterbury, Matthew Parker. When Vaughan Williams edited the English Hymnal of 1906, he also included this melody (number 92). Tallis's original words to the hymn were:
Why fum'th in fight the Gentiles spite, in fury raging stout?
Why tak'th in hand the people fond, vain things to bring about?
The Kings arise, the Lords devise, in counsels met thereto,
against the Lord with false accord, against His Christ they go.
-Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields/Neville Marriner
*Additional information by Wikipedia
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