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Fantasia on Greensleeves

19344 min

This guide follows Williams’s Fantasia on Greensleeves (1934) in one part.

Recording: English Chamber Orchestra, Daniel Barenboim

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Follow all 6 sections as they play

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The piece is marked slow, then , then slow again. A short comes first, and then the Greensleeves tune enters (A). The contrasting (B) is built on the Lovely Joan melody. A brief (a passage in free ) leads back. A second, shorter follows, and the Greensleeves tune to the piece.

  1. A

Section boundaries in music are not always sharp; a transition may be felt over a pause or a held chord.

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