Music-theatre works-The poems which form the basis of this work were inspired by a miniature mechanical organ playing eight tunes once the property of George III. A scrap of paper sold with it explains that 'This Organ was George the Third for Birds to sing'.Peter Maxwell Davies then set these poems to music and devised them as a semi-theatrical work for Male Vocalist Piano Violin Cello Flute…

A dreamlike and evocative work from Peter Maxwell Davies for flute and orchestra. The piece captures the wonder and sanctuary of the composer's home surrounded by seabirds and seals that fire the imagination in childlike ways evoking images of mermaids and angels. Descriptive and inventive orchestral colours support and illuminate the flute solo material that is both tranquil and highly virtuosic…

The task: to write a piece that could involve children as players singers and composers alongside a professional symphony or chamber orchestra. The solution: a peace-cry for the biosphere in which the collaborative nature of theenterprise is a metaphor for a wished-for human enlightenment to the ways of the natural world. Davies provides five musical elements and five ways of development and us…

The Spiders' Revenge is a short music-theatre work (duration about 25 minutes) designed for performance by primary school children. The work was written for Evie Primary School a small rural school in Orkney of about 60 pupils between the ages of five and eleven and was specially devised to enhance an environmental studies project on 'mini-beasts'. All the pupils in the school took part in the f…

The Spiders' Revenge is a short music-theatre work (duration about 25 minutes) designed for performance by primary school children. The work was written for Evie Primary School a small rural school in Orkney of about 60 pupils between the ages of five and eleven and was specially devised to enhance an environmental studies project on 'mini-beasts'. All the pupils in the school took part in the f…

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A Century Of Piano Music contains pieces graded accordingly to difficulty, originally written variously for concert hall, class, festival or home: miniatures and more extended pieces that show off each composer at their best. Every major artistic movement can be discerned in this collection of easy and accessible piano works by some of the biggest names in British music of the twentieth century. A…

Flute and Orchestra

SKU: HL.14021039

Composed by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. Music Sales America. Classical. Book [Softcover]. Composed 2005. 52 pages. Chester Music #CH61596. Published by Chester Music (HL.14021039).

ISBN 9781844493425. 5.5x7.5x0.214 inches.

A drea…

Flute, Piano Accompaniment - Intermediate-Advanced

SKU: HL.14024588

Composed by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. Music Sales America. Post-1900. Sheet Music, Instrumental Work. With Text language: English. Chester Music #CH61595. Published by Chester Music (HL.14024588).

UPC: …

SKU: HL.49014461

Composed by John Horton. Edited by John Horton. This edition: Paperback/Soft Cover. Sheet music. Edition Schott. Classical. Teacher's edition. 84 pages. Schott Music #ED 11132. Published by Schott Music (HL.49014461).

ISBN 9790220129681. English.

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For Piano Solo. Music Sales America. 20th Century. Bosworth & Co. #BOE005126. Published by Bosworth & Co. . 20th Century.