Six Studies in English Folk Song (Vaughan Williams)
Movements
i Adagio (‘Lovely on the Water’) ii Andante sostenuto (‘Spurn Point’) iii Larghetto (‘Van Diemen’s Land’) iv Lento (‘She Borrowed Some of Her Mother’s Gold’) v Andante tranquillo (‘The Lady and the Dragoon’) vi Allegro vivace (‘As I walked over London Bridge’)
Notes
Six Studies in English Folk Song is a piece of chamber music written by English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams in 1926. It is a collection of six English folk songs set for cello and piano. Each song follows the same format: presentation of the tune in the solo line, followed by a full iteration of the folk song in the piano with an ornamented solo line.
