This Fantasia is founded on the following traditional English carols: The Truth Sent From Above (Herefordshire) words and tune; Come All You Worthy Gentlemen (Somerset) words and tune; On Christmas Night (Sussex) words and tune; There Is A Fountain (Herefordshire) tune only; together with fragments of other well-known carol tunes. The work is scored for ordinary full Orchestra with Organ and set of bells (ad lib.) or String Orchestra with Organ or Piano. Alternatively it may be accompanied by Organ or Piano alone played from the Vocal score with an optional solo Cello part (H212). A chorus part for performance bysolo Baritone and TTBB is also available (W41). The chorus is required to sing in four different ways:1. Singing the words.2. Singing with closed lips.3. Singing \'Ah\'.4. Singing with half-closed lips i.e. with a short \'u\' sound as in the word \'but\'. Watch Pasadena Master Chorale performing Ralph Vaughan Williams\' Fantasia On Christmas Carols:

Solos Duets and Terzets for soprano tenor and bass with piano violin & cello. Score and parts.Contents:Lochnagar WoO 156 No.9 (terzet)Ye Shepherds WoO 156 No.4 (terzet)Faithfu' Johnie Op.108 No.20 (solo)Farewell bliss WoO 152 No.20 (duet)The Soldier WoO 157 No.2 (soprano solo)The pulse of an Irishman WoO 154 No.4 (male voice solo)Enchantress farewell Op.108 No.18 ( male voice solo)Bonnie Laddie Highland Laddie Op.108 No.7 (soprano solo)The chace of the wolf WoO 155 No.1 (duet for soprano & tenor)O might I but my Patrick love! WoO 153 No.16 (soprano solo)Sally in our alley Op.108 No.25 (tenor solo)DuncanGray WoO 156 No.2 (terzet)Sunset Op.108 No.2 (solo)The soldier in a foreign land WoO 154 No.11 (duet for soprano & tenor)Come fill fill my good fellow Op.108 No.13 (terzet)Auld lang syne WoO 156 No.11 (terzet)