I delivered a Paper at the Sea Music Symposium at Mystic, CT in 2016 on the folk songs Ralph Vaughan Williams used in his 1906/1914 Norfolk Rhapsody No. 1.

He actually collected them in Kings Lynn, Norfolk and used the themes in the piece of music. In total he collected some 70 songs but only used 5 in the original Rhapsody, then amended this in 1914 to only use 4 of the folk songs.

Do listen to the piece - it is wonderful and was the first piece of "Classical" music to use English Folk Song themes....


Tim Radford