Ralph Vaughan Williams: Hugh The Drover (Vocal Score)

Vocal Score to Ralph Vaughan Williams' opera Hugh the Drover.
Published by Faber Music.

'...I have an idea for an opera written to real words, with a certain amount of real English music and also a real English Replaced by new subject might just it the nail right on the head...and the whole thing might be folk-song-y in character, with a certain amount of real ballad stuff thrown in...an opera on more or less accepted lines and preferably a comedy, to be full of tunes, and lively, and one tune that will really come off.'

~ Ralph Vaughan Williams from a letter to Harold Child (librettist), 1910