Gallimaufry
From Wind Repertory Project
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General Info
Year: 1983
Duration: c. 15:00
Difficulty: V (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Ariel Music
Cost: Score & Parts - $190.00
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Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Gallimaufry: A medley, any confused jumble of things, but strictly speaking a hotch-potch made up of all the scraps of the larder. Cf Shakespeare The Winter’s Tale “a gallimaufry of gambols”.
This suite for concert band was inspired by Shakespeare’s Henry IV plays and derived from music written for the Royal Shakespeare Company’s productions which opened the Barbican Theatre, London, in June 1982. Dedicated to the director, Trevor Nunn, then the Artistic Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, with grateful thanks for his suggestion that I should expand and mould the music for these productions into a form suitable for concert performance. My thanks also to Timothy Reynish and BASBWE who with funds provided by North West Arts, commissioned the work and helped to ensure its first performance which I conducted on September 24th 1983 with the Royal Northern College of Music Wind Orchestra.
The work is continuous and the thematic material of each of the six sections closely related.
Movement One: Church and State
Leadership; the establishment; temporal and ecclesiastical power
Movement Two: Inn and Out
The Boar’s Head Tavern; the Stews; low-life revels
Movement Three: Starts and Fits
Tavern Brawl; Gadshill ambush; Pistol “the swaggerer” evicted; Mistress Quickly’s rescue.
Movement Four: Father and Son
Relationship of King Henry and Falstaff to Prince Hall; real and surrogate parent.
Movement Five: Advance and Retreat
Recruiting March derived from the Tavern tune
Movement Six: Church and Staus Quo
Falstaff rejected. Hal becomes King; order restored
Program Note by Guy Woolfenden
Commercial Discography
State Ratings
- Florida: VI --- (The Florida Bandmasters Association denotes this as significant literature)
Recent Performances
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- SUNY Fredonia NYSSMA Zone Honours band (Timothy Reynish, conductor) - November 2007
Additional Works for Winds by this Composer
Additional Resources
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