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===Other orchestral music=== {{external media|video1=[https://archive.org/details/retnvt-Me2_Strings_-_Vaughn_Williams_Fantasia_on_a_Theme_by_Thomas_Tallis ''Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis''] |audio1=[https://archive.org/details/dso20100516/dso20100516-002-vaughan-williams-lark-ascending.wav ''The Lark Ascending'']|audio2=[https://archive.org/details/mm-838-vaughan-williams-6/MM838+Vaughan+Williams+Greensleeves.flac ''Fantasia on Greensleeves'']}} [[File:Vaughan-Williams-by-Rothenstein.jpg|thumb|upright|alt=Drawing of a man in early middle age, clean shaven, with a good head of hair, looking towards the viewer|Vaughan Williams in 1919, by [[William Rothenstein]]]] ''Grove'' lists more than thirty works by Vaughan Williams for orchestra or band over and above the symphonies. They include two of his most popular works—the ''[[Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis]]'' (1910, revised 1919), and ''[[The Lark Ascending (Vaughan Williams)|The Lark Ascending]]'', originally for violin and piano (1914); orchestrated 1920.<ref>Foreman, p. 19</ref> Other works that survive in the repertoire in Britain are the [[Norfolk Rhapsodies|''Norfolk Rhapsody No 1'']] (1905–1906), ''[[The Wasps (Vaughan Williams)|The Wasps (An Aristophanic Suite)]]'' (1909) – the overture in particular – the ''[[English Folk Song Suite]]'' (1923) and the ''Fantasia on Greensleeves'' (1934).<ref name=grove/> Vaughan Williams wrote four concertos: for violin (1925), [[Piano Concerto (Vaughan Williams)|piano]] (1926), [[Oboe Concerto (Vaughan Williams)|oboe]] (1944) and [[Tuba Concerto (Vaughan Williams)|tuba]] (1954); another concertante piece is his "Romance for [[harmonica]], strings and piano" (1951).<ref name=grove/> None of these works has rivalled the popularity of the symphonies or the short orchestral works mentioned above.{{refn|The 2015 concert listings section of the Ralph Vaughan Williams Society lists no performances of any of the concertos in Britain during that year, and, internationally, one performance of the "Oboe Concerto" (in [[Las Palmas]]) and one of the Piano Concert (in [[Seattle]]).<ref>[http://www.rvwsociety.com/concerts.html#top "Vaughan Williams Concerts in 2015"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151104224505/http://www.rvwsociety.com/concerts.html |date=4 November 2015 }}, Ralph Vaughan Williams Society, retrieved 11 October 2015</ref>|group= n}} Bartók was among the admirers of the Piano Concerto, written for and championed by [[Harriet Cohen]], but it has remained, in the words of the critic Andrew Achenbach, a neglected masterpiece.<ref>Achenbach, p. 45</ref> In addition to the music for [[Scott of the Antarctic (film)|''Scott of the Antarctic'']], Vaughan Williams composed incidental music for eleven other films, from ''[[49th Parallel (film)|49th Parallel]]'' (1941) to ''The Vision of William Blake'' (1957).<ref name=grove/>
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