John Ireland (1879 – 1962)

A Downland Suite

string orchestra

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Details
For
string orchestra
Product Type
Score, Parts
Author / Composer
John Ireland
Arranger
Geoffrey Bush
Product number
1714058
Duration
17 Minutes
Description

A Downland Suite is structured classically, revealing itself in the loose "sonata form" of the Prelude, the song-like Elegy, the Minuet, and a last movement which utilizes the Rondo. Tight thematic unity between movements gives the work its cohesion. The Elegy melody provides the kernel and the rising fourth interval is seminal. Ireland gives us our clue by repeating the Elegy theme in the last movement. In fact, the opening Rondo theme is virtually the Elegy (but played four times as fast) and ...