On Wenlock Edge

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On Wenlock Edge. Song-cycle by Vaughan Williams to 6 poems from A. E. Housman's A Shropshire Lad (1896) for ten., str. qt., and pf. Comp. 1908–9. F.p. 1909. Also arr. by composer for ten. and orch. (f.p. 1924). First item of cycle is the poem On Wenlock Edge.

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