Divertimento: for Chamber Orchestra "Sellinger's Round"
Type
Other
Authors
Category
Score
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Publication Year
1954
Publisher
B. Schott's Sohne, Germany
Volume
10307
Pages
53p
Abstract
A variation of the traditional tune Sellinger's Round appears somewhere in each of the five movements. (A version by Byrd is also in the first). Incorporated in the music are short quotations from Gibbons, Purcell, Arne, Field and Sullivan.
A single woodwind instrument playing in the 'forte' is taken to equal the f of a single group of strings, eg. Flute=1st Violins, Bassoon=Cellos, etc. The string body must therefore be proportionate. Further, the trumpet and horn are taken to be roughly equivalent in the f, both to themselves and to each of the woodwind instruments. The line of the trumpet and horn must therefore be proportionately balanced in the performance.
A single woodwind instrument playing in the 'forte' is taken to equal the f of a single group of strings, eg. Flute=1st Violins, Bassoon=Cellos, etc. The string body must therefore be proportionate. Further, the trumpet and horn are taken to be roughly equivalent in the f, both to themselves and to each of the woodwind instruments. The line of the trumpet and horn must therefore be proportionately balanced in the performance.
Description
Commissioned and first performed by Paul Sacher Zurich, November 1954
Duration 16 minutes
Duration 16 minutes
Biblio Notes
S.&Co. 5887
Number of Copies
1
