Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Norman Peterkin
Letter No. VWL1819
Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Norman Peterkin
Letter No.: VWL1819
The White Gates,
Dorking.
Nov 14 [1943]
Dear Peterkin
New Commonwealth
I am anxious as you say to make the unison version as cheap as possible – so I suggested suggest leaving out the alternative choral version of verse 2 altogether. After all there is going to be an unaccompanied SATB version issued separately – Otherwise I suggest putting in the alternative S.A.T.B. version between the 2nd & 3rd verse with an appropriate note as to what to omit in the each case.
Personally I see no harm in the present arrangement – we did the same I think with ‘England my England’1 – but I think omission is the best course – anything to keep the price down!
If you decide to issue that organ arrangement of “Greensleeves” I had better look at it again before you print – there is a discrepancy in the number of bars between the various versions.2
Yrs
R Vaughan Williams
1. This choral song, Catalogue of Works 1941/1, was also issued in a unison version which has an optional descant.
2. An organ arrangement of the song by Stanley Roper was published by Oxford University Press in 1947, see Catalogue of Works 1934/1 e.
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This letter must be subsequent to VWL1804.
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Shelfmark:File 2008C