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composer: Sir Michael Tippett

for chamber orchestra

Dedication: to Paul Sacher
Premiere: 5 November 1954 Zürich (Switzerland), Collegium Musicum Zürich · Paul Sacher, conductor
Orchestra instrumentation: 1.1.1.1-1.1.0.0-str
Publisher: Schott Music
Duration: 16' 0''
Year of composition: 1953/1954
Edition: performance material
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Michael Tippett

A variation of the traditional tune Sellinger's Round appears somewhere in each of the five movements. (A version by Byrd is also in the first). Incorporated in the music are short quotations from Gibbons, Purcell, Arne, Field and Sullivan.

Michael Tippett

I Allegro
II A Lament
III Presto
IV Adagio
V Allegro assai