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'''''O clap your hands''''' is a [[motetmottetto]] by [[Ralph Vaughan Williams]]. He composed the [[anthem]], a setting of verses from [[PsalmSalmo 47]], in 1920 for a four-part choir, organ, brass, and percussion. He later also made versions for orchestra and for organ. The motet was often recorded.
== HistoryStoria ==
Vaughan Williams was an [[agnosticAgnosticismo|agnostico]] but still composed Anglican church music.<ref name="Morrison" /> He said, "There is no reason why an atheist could not write a good Mass."<ref name="Providence" /> He appreciated the music by [[Thomas Tallis]], [[William Byrd]] and other 16th-century composers on English texts.<ref name="Providence" />
World War I, for which he had volunteered to serve in the military,<ref name="Providence" /> left a deep impression.<ref name="Hall" /> From 1919, he was a teacher of composition at the Royal College of Music. He wrote the [[anthem]] ''O clap your hands'', a setting of selected verses from [[Salmo 47|Psalm 47]], in 1920. It was published in London by [[Stainer & Bell]] the same year.<ref name="Kingsbury" /> It was often recorded.<ref name="Musiekweb" />
A [[Loop (music)|loop]] from the anthem, performed by the [[Choir of King's College, Cambridge]], and the [[English Chamber Orchestra]], conducted by [[David Willcocks]], was used for the song "[[Revolution 9]]" by [[the Beatles]].<ref name="Everett" />
== TextTesto ande musicmusica ==
Vaughan Williams chose verses 1,2,5–8 (in the [[King James Version]] numbering) from [[PsalmSalmo 47]],<ref name="Providence" /> a psalm calling to exalt God as the King of "all the earth" with hands, voices and instruments.<ref name="Providence" /> The Hebrew original mentions the [[shofar]], which is given as [[Tromba|trumpet]] in English.<ref name="Bible" />
He set the text in one movement in B-flat major, marked Allegro. He scored it for a four-part choir, organ, brass, and percussion, but also made a version for orchestra and an organ version.<ref name="Kingsbury" /> The music begins with brass fanfares. A jubilant first section is followed by an introspective middle section.<ref name="Kingsbury" /> The conclusion is a triumphant climax, repeating the words "Sing praises unto our King, sing praises."<ref name="Providence" />
Richard R. Terry, who had conducted the first performance of the composer's [[MassMessa in Gsol minorminore (Vaughan Williams)|MassMessa in Gsol minorminore]] at [[Westminster Cathedral]], wrote to him: "I'm quite sincere when I say that [this] is the work one has all along been waiting for. In your individual and modern idiom you have really captured the old liturgical spirit and atmosphere."<ref name="Providence" />
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