Suite No.1
Orchestra - Sheet Music

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SKU: PO.PME04S

Composed by John Ritchie. Full score. Promethean Editions #PME04S. Published by Promethean Editions (PO.PME04S).

ISBN 9780958242851.

Rooted in the pastoral mode of Elgar and Vaughan Williams, Suite No.1 (1956) is an early manifestation of Ritchie's lifelong preoccupation with the ritornello as a basis for first-movement structure. The Air is a dreamy, slow-moving waltz with a folky feel, an intense middle section and a reprise that exploits a solo viola in its final bars. A prominent divisi viola sound features in the slow march that makes up the middle of the Intrada, while the Fugue's jaunty theme approaches jazz in spirit.