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Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
''Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis'', also known as the ''Tallis Fantasia'', is a work for string orchestra by the British composer Ralph Vaughan Williams. It was composed in 1910 and performed for the first time in September of that year at Gloucester Cathedral for the Three Choirs Festival. Vaughan Williams himself conducted, and the composition proved to be a major success.〔Alain Frogley: Liner Notes, UPC 094638215721. 2007.〕 He revised the work twice, in 1913 and 1919. Performances generally run between 14 and 16 minutes.
The work takes its name from the original composer of the melody, Thomas Tallis (c.1505–1585). Many of Vaughan Williams' works are associated with or inspired by the music of the English Renaissance.〔 In 1906 Vaughan Williams included Tallis's ''Third Mode Melody'' in the English Hymnal, which he was then editing, as the melody for Joseph Addison's hymn ''When Rising from the Bed of Death.'' The tune is in Double Common Meter (D.C.M. or C.M.D.).〔 Horatius Bonar's hymn ''I heard the Voice of Jesus Say'' and many other D.C.M. hymns may also be sung to this tune.〕
==Composition==
The work is scored for an expanded string orchestra divided into three parts: orchestra I, a full-sized string orchestra; orchestra II, a single desk from each section (ideally placed apart from Orchestra I); and a string quartet. Vaughan Williams made this configuration resemble an organ in sound, with the quartet representing the swell division, orchestra II the choir division, and orchestra I the great division. The score specifies that the second orchestra should be placed apart from the first. This spacing emphasizes the way that the second orchestra several times echoes the first orchestra.
In structure this piece resembles the Elizabethan-age "fantasy." The theme is heard in its entirety three times during the course of the work, but the music grows from the theme's constituent motives or fragments, with variations upon them. A secondary melody, based on the original, is first heard on the solo viola about a third of the way into the Fantasia, and this theme forms the climax of the work about five minutes before the end.
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