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| Title | Dances At Threave |
| Contributors |
John Maxwell Geddes (composer) |
| Composition date | 1993 1993 |
| Duration (mins) | 9 |
| Category | orchestral |
| Instrumentation | 2222 4331 Tp Perc Hp Str |
| Commissioned by | Dumfries & Galloway Arts Festival |
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| First performed | BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra / Martyn Brabbins Easterbrook Hall, Dumfries |
| Notes | There is also a wind band version. This is available from Hal Peterson Music Publications in San Jose, California: http://www.halpeterson.com/ |
| Programme Note | Dances at Threave was written in response to a commission from the Dumfries and Galloway Arts Festival for its final concert in June, 1993, with the financial assistance of the Scottish Arts Council. A short piece with a Scottish flair was requested: immediately accessible music for a gala occasion. Apart from two quotations of early Scottish airs, 'I dose not own gold' and 'I love my love for love again,' the work consists of original 'courtly airs', modelled on dance forms from the fifteenth to the seventeenth centuries. The rhythms and meters of galiards, lilts, and bransles abound, tied together with a complete disregard for historical accuracy or stylistic authenticity! Historical Note; Theave was the stronghold on an island in the river Dee, a tower house build by Archibald the Grim in the fourteenth century. For three hundred years it was associated with important and often bloody events in Scottish history - the Black Douglases, the Maxwells, and James VI. It was finally destroyed by the Covenanters in 1640. [John Maxwell Geddes] |
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