The Water of Tyne is a traditional North Country folk song about lovers separated by the River Tyne. The flowing Piano accompaniment makes the most of the watery setting and adds poignancy to the song’s yearning emotion.WilliamGillies Whittaker was a highly respected English Choral conductor teacher and composer. He was a close friend of Gustav Holst with whom he exchanged voluminous correspondence and as composers they both made their own settingsof English folksongs. For Whittaker these were generally Choral arrangements often for the many choirs he conducted.

The task: to write a piece that could involve children as players singers and composers alongside a professional symphony or chamber orchestra. The solution: a peace-cry for the biosphere in which the collaborative nature of theenterprise is a metaphor for a wished-for human enlightenment to the ways of the natural world. Davies provides five musical elements and five ways of development and uses these to illustrate five branches of life on earth:water-plants trees fish birds and mammals (including man). There is a space for answers from children's instrumental groups and then a larger space in which the children can develop the given ideas perhaps with members of theorchestra. Davies returns as composer to depict through an excess of development creation turned sour. Finally everyone comes together with a unison hymn with orchestra and instrumental groups celebrating the turn of thetide.This work for young instrumentalists children's chorus and orchestra was commissioned by the Association of British Orchestras as the centrepiece of an education project which coincided with the implementation of theNational Curriculum for music in schools in England and Wales echoing similar developments in Scotland and Northern Ireland.Score. Duration c. 25mins.

Cette partition Florilège - Voix égales de 160 pages est éditée par les éditions A Coeur Joie sous le numéro ACJ 53 0029. Cette partition de musique est idéale pour les amateurs de Chant Choral et plus précisément de . / Choeur Voix Egales / 160 pages / Partition