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Fantasia on British Sea Songs or Fantasy on British Sea Songs is a medley of British sea songs arranged by Sir Henry Wood in 1905 to mark the centenary of the Battle of Trafalgar. For many years it has been an indispensable item at the BBC's Last Night of the Proms concert.

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Fantasia on British Sea Songs

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Fantasia on British Sea Songs or Fantasy on British Sea Songs is a medley of British sea songs arranged by Sir Henry Wood in 1905 to mark the centenary...

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Fantasia

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by Ferruccio Busoni Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis, a 1910 composition by Ralph Vaughan Williams Fantasia on British Sea Songs, a composition by Sir...

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Sea Songs

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Sea Songs is an arrangement of three British sea-songs by the English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams. It is based on the songs "Princess Royal", "Admiral...

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Sea song

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Fears on their album Songs from the Big Chair (Super Deluxe Edition), 1985 Fantasia on British Sea Songs, a classical composition by Sir Henry Wood Sea Songs...

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Sea shanty

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Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs, and Chanteys. A medley of sea songs performed by concert orchestra, Sir Henry Wood's Fantasia on British Sea Songs, is a popular...

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Henry Wood

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"Fantasia on British Sea Songs (with additional Songs arranged by Stephen Jackson)", Proms Archive, BBC. Retrieved 19 November 2010 "Fantasia on British...

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BBC Proms

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"Fantasia on British Sea Songs", followed by Thomas Arne's "Rule, Britannia!". The concert concludes with Hubert Parry's "Jerusalem", and the British national...

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Battle of Trafalgar

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Marseillaise. The first performance of Sir Henry Wood's Fantasia on British Sea Songs occurred on the same day at a special Promenade Concert. Wikimedia...

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Tom Bowling

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18th-century song by Charles Dibdin The fourth movement of the Fantasia on British Sea Songs by Sir Henry Wood, which uses the melody of Dibdin's song A bay...

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Land of Hope and Glory

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last concerts of the 1909 Proms, which also featured Wood's Fantasia on British Sea Songs. The two pieces were played one after another at the closing...

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The Saucy Arethusa

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show so stout Bore down on the Arethusa When Sir Henry Wood wrote his Fantasia on British Sea Songs in 1905 a version of this song became the third movement...

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Spanish Ladies

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Canadian ship based in Nova Scotia. The song forms part of Sir Henry J. Wood's composition Fantasia on British Sea Songs. A variant called 'The Spanish Bride'...

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1954 in British music

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almost-invariable second-half coupling of Sir Henry Wood's 1905 Fantasia on British Sea Songs, Sir Edward Elgar's 1902 setting of "Land of Hope and Glory"...

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1954 in British radio

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almost-invariable second-half coupling of Sir Henry Wood's 1905 Fantasia on British Sea Songs, Sir Edward Elgar's 1902 setting of "Land of Hope and Glory"...

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Thine Be the Glory

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Proms in the United Kingdom, Thine Be the Glory is played after Fantasia on British Sea Songs with attendees traditionally whistling the tune. In the Netherlands...

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1954 in the United Kingdom

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almost invariable second-half coupling of Sir Henry Wood's 1905 Fantasia on British Sea Songs, Sir Edward Elgar's 1902 setting of "Land of Hope and Glory"...

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Fantasia on Welsh Nursery Tunes

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Fantasia may have been modelled on Sir Henry Wood's Fantasia on British Sea Songs, or the fantasias on folk tunes by Vaughan Williams, Williams' teacher...

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Ralph Vaughan Williams

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concert works are Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis (1910) and The Lark Ascending (1914). His vocal works include hymns, folk-song arrangements and...

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Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis

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Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis, also known as the Tallis Fantasia, is a one-movement work for string orchestra by Ralph Vaughan Williams. The theme...

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1905 in British music

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Wallace is given at the Queen’s Hall, London. 21 October – The Fantasia on British Sea Songs, arranged by Sir Henry Wood to commemorate the centenary of...

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1905 in the United Kingdom

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21 October – Henry Wood first conducts a performance of his Fantasia on British Sea Songs at a Trafalgar Day concert in London. 26 October – Aspirin sold...

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1905 in music

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October 21 Henry Wood first conducts a performance of his Fantasia on British Sea Songs at a Trafalgar Day concert in London. Turandot Suite, by Ferruccio...

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List of compositions by Ralph Vaughan Williams

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Cantata for chorus and orchestra, adapted from Sir John in Love (1931) Fantasia on "Greensleeves" for strings and harp, adapted from Sir John in Love by...

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BBC Symphony Chorus

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Trad. National Anthem; Vaughan Williams Five Mystical Songs; Henry Wood Fantasia on British Sea Songs (additional numbers arr. Stephen Jackson; Rule, Britannia...

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