Tann: With the Heather and Small Birds

Description

• Composer: Hillary Tann (1947-)
• Format: Full Score
• Instrumentation: Chamber Orchestra
• Work: With the Heather and Small Birds (1994)
• Binding:
• ISBN: 9780193859593
• Size: 9.5 x 13.0 inches
• Pages: 72

Description

With the Heather and Small Birds, a celebratory overture for chamber orchestra, takes its title from a translation of a poem by Welsh Bard, John Ceiriog Hughes (1833-1897) — in Welsh, “efo’r grug a’r adar man” from Nant y Mynydd. The last stanza reads “Son of the mountain am I/ Far from home making my song/ But my heart is in the mountain/ with the heather and small birds.” for the composer, the image is of the high plateau of central Wales, within walking distance of the coal-mining valley of her childhood. It is a place of freedom, ancientness, and song (songs of the valley, and song of the skylark). – HT

2 fl (+picc), 2 ob, 2 cl, 2 bn, 2 hn, 2 tpt, timp, perc, str