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Burgon: String Quartet No. 1 - Dancers In A Landscape
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Burgon: String Quartet No. 1 - Dancers In A Landscape by Geoffrey Burgon String Quartet - Sheet Music

By Geoffrey Burgon
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Burgon: String Quartet No. 1 - Dancers In A Landscape by Geoffrey Burgon String Quartet - Sheet Music
String Quartet (String Quartet)

SKU: HL.14005354

Composed by Geoffrey Burgon. Music Sales America. Post-1900. Sheet Music, Score. With Text language: English. Chester Music #CH61974. Published by Chester Music (HL.14005354).

Composer's notes: This piece came about in a rather unusual way. I had a dream in which a string quartet were playing some very beautiful music. I was exhorting them to 'play it like late Beethoven' When I woke up, I could not remember any themes or details of what they had been playing, but had an intense memory of the 'feeling' of the music, which was soft, sensual and muted, and I immediately sat down to write a string quartet. What began to emerge was nothing like Beethoven at all, and very early into the writing I had a strong vision of some people dancing a formal and intense series of dances in a village in a very dry and hot landscape - the Australian outback or Africa maybe. The dances were very moving, with an inward, ritualistic quality and they obviously had great meaning for the people performing them. Geoffrey Burgon.

  • STRING QUARTET NO. 1 - DANCERS IN A LANDSCAPE BURGON, GEOFFREY
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