Author ORCID Identifier

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1617-5599

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Other

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Available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike 4.0 International Licence

Disciplines

Musicology

Abstract

Originally entitled Sinfonietta, the Symphonic Ballad was composed for the Belfast Wireless Symphony Orchestra (later the BBC Northern Ireland Orchestra). The premiere was conducted by E Godfrey Brown on 30 August 1937. A second performance with, reduced forces, was given in a Radio Éireann broadcast on 4 September 1941 by the RÉ Orchestra conducted by Michael Bowles. At some point after this, the score of the work was mislaid and its current whereabouts is unknown. The reconstruction was made from the orchestral parts used in the 1941 performance, which are housed in the Trinity College Manuscripts and Archives Research Library. This complete set of parts was made from the original score but also indicates the alterations that were made to the instrumentation to facilitate performance by a smaller orchestra in 1941. This score reconstructs the original orchestration of the work.

DOI

https://doi.org/10.21427/S2YN-PT23

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