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Article | A chance encounter with an Essex labourer set Vaughan Williams on a lifelong journey, says...

()f the importance of folk music there had been no doubt in 19th-century Britain. What remained unclear -until the researches of Cecil Sharp and Ralph Vaughan Williams - was its pure melodic form, gleaned not from printed sources but from collecting in the field.


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