La Contenance Angloise – Parte I » Ralph Vaughan Williams: Just as the tide was flowing

A lesson in how to set a folk-song and go well beyond its strophic form. At the local level, the original tune has a rather stilted dotted crotchet, quaver and crotchet at ‘flowing’, but RVW finds a better match of text and music, setting the word to melismata which literally flow. Read More →