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Maxwell Davies, Peter Swinton Jig
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Chester Music Limited Part of the Music Sales Group
Peter Maxwell Davies
SWINTON JIG on a Nineteenth Century Lancashire Fiddle Tune
for orchestra
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This work was commissioned by the BBC. It was first performed on 27th November 1998, at the University of York, by the BBC Philharmonic conducted by the composer. SCORING Piccolo Flute Oboe Cor anglais Clarinet in B flat (doubling clarinet in A) Bass clarinet in B flat Bassoon Contrabassoon 2 horns in F 2 cornets in B flat 2 trombones Tuba
Timpani Percussion (2 players): Player 1: bones, bell in C*, flexatone Player 2: glockenspiel, tamtam, tambourine (played with foot and knee), suspended Chinese cymbal
Banjo Concertina (may be doubled by the banjo player) Out-of-tune upright piano Strings * A “rough” bell, with many close overtones, rather than a “smooth” tubular bell.
Duration c. 15 minutes Miniature score on sale: Order No. CH63723 Conductor’s score and orchestral parts on hire. COMPOSER’S NOTE Swinton Jig is one in a series of occasional pieces inspired by my youth in Salford and the surrounding areas. When I was put in the way of this “Swinton Jig”, (composed by a coal miner from Swinton in 1860), it gave me the opportunity to celebrate the very modest place next to Salford where I spent most of my childhood years. These variations on Mr Tildesley’s tune are very much imbued with what it was like to be in the communal air-raid shelter in the middle of our street, where concerts were given to pass the long hours spent within. There was an out-of-tune upright piano – people played banjo and bones, concertinas and cornets, they sang songs and they danced. And all of this was seen through the eyes of a very sleepy eight-year-old child. The slow cor anglais tune recalls the song of a large and extraordinary Irish lady, who would walk around the streets singing, in a bass voice, for pennies. Not only was this the saddest music I have ever heard – you could hear it streets away, and it echoed around them – but when you got near enough to push tuppence into her hand, the air was quite literally vibrating so strongly that it hurt! P.M.D.
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