Examples include Edward Elgar's Great is the Lord ( 1912 ) and Give unto the Lord ( 1914 ) ( both with orchestral accompaniment ), Benjamin Britten's Rejoice in the Lamb ( 1943 ) ( a modern example of a multi-movement anthem and today heard mainly as a concert piece ), and, on a much smaller scale, Ralph Vaughan Williams ' O taste and see ( 1952 ) ( written for the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II ).

Ralph Vaughan Williams produced his most famous settings of six songs, the cycle On Wenlock Edge, for string quartet, tenor and piano ( dedicated to Gervase Elwes ) in 1909, and it became very popular after Elwes recorded it with the London String Quartet and Frederick B. Kiddle in 1917.

Later composers who wrote chamber works for this quintet include Ralph Vaughan Williams, Colin Matthews, Jon Deak, Frank Proto, and John Woolrich.

These included Percy Grainger and Ralph Vaughan Williams in England and Béla Bartók in Hungary.

* Sir John in Love, 1924 – 1928, an opera by composer Ralph Vaughan Williams based upon The Merry Wives of Windsor.

American Larry Adler was one of the first harmonica players to perform major works written for the instrument by the composers Ralph Vaughan Williams, Malcolm Arnold, Darius Milhaud and Arthur Benjamin.

Impressionism also gained a foothold in England, where its traits were assimilated by composers such as Ralph Vaughan Williams, Arnold Bax, and Frederick Delius.

Impressionism has also influenced at least some of the music of Manuel de Falla, Paul Dukas, Jean Sibelius, George Butterworth, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Gustav Holst, John Ireland, Cyril Scott, Zoltán Kodály, Ottorino Respighi, Jacques Ibert, Bohuslav Martinu, Olivier Messiaen, Alan Hovhaness, Ned Rorem, György Ligeti, Selim Palmgren, and Toru Takemitsu, among others, as well as jazz musicians such as Bix Beiderbecke, Duke Ellington, Claude Thornhill, Bud Powell, Dave Brubeck, Gil Evans, Bill Evans, Herbie Hancock, Frank Kimbrough, Antônio Carlos Jobim, Shirley Horn and Esperanza Spalding, progressive rock musicians such as King Crimson, Frank Zappa, Pink Floyd, and Yes, the entire genre of post-rock, and electronic artists like Tangerine Dream and Popol Vuh, as well as Aphex Twin and Autechre.

Musical Impressionism beyond France includes the work of such composers as Ralph Vaughan Williams, Ottorino Respighi ( Italy ) and Cyril Scott and John Ireland ( England ).

Examples include works by Richard Strauss, Maurice Duruflé, Francis Poulenc, Charles Villiers Stanford, Edmund Rubbra, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Lennox Berkeley, Morten Lauridsen, Edward Elgar, Hugo Distler, Ernst Krenek, and Michael Finnissy.

In the 20th century, English opera began to assert more independence, with works of Ralph Vaughan Williams and in particular Benjamin Britten, who in a series of works that remain in standard repertory today, revealed an excellent flair for the dramatic and superb musicality.

* Flos Campi by the English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams is based on the book.

Ralph Vaughan Williams set to music two of Barnes ' poems, " In the Spring ", and ' My Orcha'd in Lindèn Lea ', in the " Common English " version (" Linden Lea ").

* October 12 – Ralph Vaughan Williams, British composer ( d. 1958 )

Ralph Vaughan Williams ' choral work Serenade to Music draws its text from the discussion about music and the music of the spheres in Act V, scene 1.

Herbert Howells wrote a Mass in the Dorian mode entirely in strict Renaissance style, and Ralph Vaughan Williams's Mass in G minor is an extension of this style.

Ralph Vaughan Williams's Mass in G minor harks back to the Renaissance style while exhibiting the vibrancy of new harmonic languages.

Other composers of major violin concertos include Jean Sibelius, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Walton, Benjamin Britten, Frank Martin, Carl Nielsen, Paul Hindemith, Alfred Schnittke, György Ligeti, Philip Glass, John Adams, and Kan-no.

Ralph Vaughan Williams wrote concertos for piano and for two pianos while Britten's concerto for piano ( 1938 ) is a fine work from his early period.

Ralph Vaughan Williams composed both kinds: " festival " cantatas such as Toward the Unknown Region ( 1907 ), Five Mystical Songs ( 1911 ), and Five Tudor Portraits ( 1936 ), and sacred cantatas including Sancta civitas ( 1926 ), Benedicite ( 1930 ), Dona nobis pacem ( 1936 ), and Hodie ( 1954 ).

* Job: A Masque for Dancing, a ballet by Ralph Vaughan Williams

Ravel maintained his influential participation with the SMI which continued its active role of promoting new music, particularly of British and American composers such as Arnold Bax, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Aaron Copland, and Virgil Thomson.

His closest students included Maurice Delage, Manuel Rosenthal, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Alexis Roland-Manuel and Vlado Perlemuter.

It had also published The Yattendon Hymnal in 1899 and, more significantly, the first edition of The English Hymnal in 1906, under the editorship of Percy Dearmer and the then largely unknown Ralph Vaughan Williams.

In consequence, Foss actively promoted the performance and sought publication of music by Ralph Vaughan Williams, William Walton, Constant Lambert, Alan Rawsthorne, Peter Warlock ( Philip Heseltine ), Edmund Rubbra and other English composers.

Richard Nixon throwing Opening Day ceremonial first pitch at Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium | RFK Stadium on April 7, 1969 with Ted Williams ( left ) and Bob Short ( right, partially obscured by Ralph Houk ).

In the first inning, Williams caught a line drive by Ralph Kiner, slamming into the Comiskey Park scoreboard and breaking his left arm.

Ralph Hartley suggested the use of a logarithmic measure of information in 1928.

In 2002, Hellman suggested the algorithm be called Diffie – Hellman – Merkle key exchange in recognition of Ralph Merkle's contribution to the invention of public-key cryptography ( Hellman, 2002 ).

Ralph David Abernathy suggested the name " Montgomery Improvement Association " ( MIA ).

Rod Love, former chief of staff to Ralph Klein, suggested that the Greens could potentially cut into the NDP's support.

Centuries later, botanist Ralph Randles Stewart suggested it was named after William Jack ( 1795 – 1822 ), a Scottish botanist who worked for the East India Company in Bengal, Sumatra and Malaysia.

In 1969, New York animator Ralph Bakshi came across a copy of R. Crumb's Fritz the Cat and suggested to producer Steve Krantz that it would work as a film.

His friend Ralph Vaerst suggested the name " Silicon Valley " in a series of articles entitled " Silicon Valley, USA " in the weekly trade newspaper Electronic News starting on January 11, 1971.

A solution to this problem was suggested in early 1925 by George Uhlenbeck and Samuel Goudsmit, students of Paul Ehrenfest ( who rejected the idea ), and independently by Ralph Kronig, one of Landé's assistants.

According to Christopher Driver, the name was suggested by Gustav Metzger and Ralph Schoenman, who derived it from the Guelph Council of 100.

It was during his farewell speech that he suggested that the date of presenting the Budget be moved from August to May, a practice that would be started by his successor Ralph Willis in May 1994.

Oregon made its " formal " debut in NYC in 1971 ( originally named " Thyme — Music of Another Present Era ", the name change to Oregon was suggested by McCandless ); the group's first release Music of Another Present Era was issued on Vanguard in 1972 ( the four also recorded for ECM, though the recording, 1973's Trios Solos, was billed as " Ralph Towner with Glen Moore ").

The song " Hold the Fort " " Storm the Fort ", a Knights of Labor pro-labor revision of the hymn by the same name, became the most popular labor song prior to Ralph Chaplin's IWW anthem " Solidarity Forever ".

The editor of the new ( 1926 ) edition of Songs of Praise was Holst's close friend Ralph Vaughan Williams, which may have provided the stimulus for producing the hymn.

( Note: This version is from The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson ( 1904 ), edited by Edward Waldo Emerson, who noted, " From a copy of this hymn as first printed on slips for distribution among the Concord people at the celebration of the completion of the monument on the battle-ground, I note the differences from the poem here given as finally revised by Mr. Emerson in the Selected Poems.

Some commercial stations played Contemporary Christian Music ( CCM ) for a few hours a week, but in the 1980s, as commercial and some non-commercial Christian stations evolved to Contemporary formats, Family Radio remained with a mainly traditional music format composed of choir hymns, various Gospel singing groups such as the Bill Gaither Trio, Christian college choirs, instrumental orchestral hymn renditions from conductors such as Paul Mickelson and Ralph Carmichael, vocalists such as George Beverly Shea, Frank Boggs, Doug Oldham, Mahalia Jackson, John McGill, Dave Boyer, and others, and softer urban contemporary gospel songs.

The English Hymnal features the 1906 Ralph Vaughan Williams arrangement of the English verses of the Cherubic hymn of the Offertory chant ( see above ) to the melody of a French folk tune Picardy.

Ralph Vaughan Williams based his orchestral piece Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus ( 1939 ) on this folk song, and also used an arrangement as the hymn tune Kingsfold.

Although the English Hymnal of 1906 did not include descants, this influential hymnal, whose music editor was Ralph Vaughan Williams, served as a source of tunes for which the earliest known hymn tune descants were published.