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Suite on English folk tunes : A time there was-- : for orchestra : op. 90
Suite on English folk tunes
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- Creator
- Benjamin Britten
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- London : Faber ; New York : G. Schirmer, 1984
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- 1 score (41 pages) ; 32 cm
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- ocm12915122
- "The suite is founded on tunes published in the seventeenth century in Playford's The dancing master, and some folk songs collected orally at the beginning of this century"--Pref.
- Duration: 14:00.
- Composer's pref. and publisher's note including text of The bitter withy (the basis of 2nd movement), in English and German, preceding score.
- Forms part of: David Lewis Crosby Collection.
- Cakes and ale -- The bitter withy -- Hankin Booby -- Hunt the squirrel -- Lord Melbourne