e/Sancta Civitas

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has gloss	eng: Sancta Civitas ("The Holy City") is an oratorio by Ralph Vaughan Williams. Written between 1923 and 1925, it received its first performance in Oxford in May 1926, during the General Strike. Although its title is in Latin, the libretto is entirely in English, based upon texts from Revelation, as well as Taverner's Bible and other sources. Late in life, Vaughan Williams would call Sancta the favourite of his choral works.
lexicalization	eng: Sancta Civitas
instance of	(noun) a musical composition for voices and orchestra based on a religious text oratorio, cantata