Three Shakespeare Songs
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[edit] Three Shakepeare Songs
Written by Ralph Vaughan Williams in June of 1951 for the British Federation of Music Festivals, National Competitive Festival.
Three Shakespear Songs is a set of three pieces, published by Oxford University Press and written for accapella SATB choir. The texts for the set was taken from two of William Shakespeare's famous plays.
Full Fathom Five with text from Act 1 of Shakespeare's The Tempest
The Cloud-Capp'd Towers with text from Act 4 of Shakespeare's The Tempest and
Over Hill, Over Dale with text from Act 2 of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream
