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Peter Maxwell Davies: Turn Of The Tide, Final Chorus (Chorus Part): Mixed Choir And Accomp.

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COMPOSER: Peter Maxwell Davies
PUBLISHER: Chester Music
INSTRUMENTATION: Choir
PRODUCT FORMAT: Vocal Score
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 oftheenterprise is a metaphor for a wished-for human enlightenment to the
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Composer Peter Maxwell Davies
Publisher Chester Music
Instrumentation Choir
Product Format Vocal Score
Description Product Type Book [Softcover]
Genre Classical
Style Period Post 1901
Year of Publication 2002
ISBN 9780711932562
No. MUSCH61141
Description
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 oftheenterprise 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 uses these to illustrate five branches of life onearth:water-plants, trees, fish, birds and mammals (including man). There is a space for answers from children's instrumental groups, and then a larger space in which the children can develop the given ideas, perhaps with membersof theorchestra. Davies returns as composer to depict, through an excess of development, creation turned sour. Finally everyone comes together with a unison hymn, with orchestra and instrumental groups, celebrating the turn ofthetide
.This work for young instrumentalists, children's chorus and orchestra, was commissioned by the Association of British Orchestras as the centrepiece of an education project which coincided with the implementation oftheNational Curriculum for music in schools in England and Wales, echoing similar developments in Scotland and Northern Ireland.
Score. Duration c. 25mins.
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