Beat! Beat! Drums! : from Dona Nobis Pacem (Vocal score)

for SATB and piano or orchestraThis movement from Vaughan Williams's cantata Dona Nobis Pacem vividly evokes the brutality of war, drawing on the menace and violence of the Walt Whitman poem that it sets.

This vocal score features a piano reduction of the orchestral accompaniment; materials for the full orchestral version and strings and piano version are available on hire.