By the Sleepy Lagoon
Eric Coates (arr. Dan Godfrey)
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General Info
Year: 1930 /
Duration: c. 4:00
Difficulty: III (see Ratings for explanation)
Original Medium: Orchestra
Publisher: Chappell
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - £49.95
Instrumentation
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Errata
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Program Notes
By the Sleepy Lagoon is a light-orchestral valse serenade by British composer Eric Coates, written in 1930. In 1940 American songwriter Jack Lawrence added lyrics with Coates' approval; the resulting song, Sleepy Lagoon, became a popular-music standard of the 1940s.
Eric Coates was inspired to compose By the Sleepy Lagoon in 1930 while overlooking a beach in West Sussex. His son, Austin Coates, later remembered:
It was inspired in a very curious way and not by what you might expect. It was inspired by the view on a warm, still summer evening looking across the "lagoon" from the east beach at Selsey towards Bognor Regis. It's a pebble beach leading steeply down, and the sea at that time is an incredibly deep blue of the Pacific. It was that impression, looking across at Bognor, which looked pink -- almost like an enchanted city with the blue of the Downs behind it --that gave him the idea for the Sleepy Lagoon. He didn't write it there; he scribbled it down, as he used to, at extreme speed, and then simply took it back with him to London where he wrote and orchestrated it.
The piece is a slow waltz for full orchestra that lasts roughly four minutes. Michael Jameson observed that the piece is "elegantly orchestrated" with "a shapely theme for violins presented in the salon-esque genre entirely characteristic of British light music in the 1920s and '30s".
- Program Note from Wikipedia
Media
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State Ratings
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Performances
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- Virginia Grand Military Band (Alexandra) (Loras John Schissel, conductor) – 17 January 2020
Works for Winds by This Composer
- Arrival of the Princess
- Calling All Workers
- By the Sleepy Lagoon (arr. Godfrey) (1930)
- The Dam Busters March (arr. Wagner) (1954/2004)
- The Dam Busters (arr. Duthoit) (1955)
- Eighth Army March
- Footlights (arr. Duthoit) (1940)
- Four Ways Suite (arr. Godfrey and Leidzen) (1928)
- High Flight (Coates)
- Holburn
- Knightsbridge March. See: London Suite
- London Bridge
- London Suite
- Knightsbridge March (arr. Cacavas) (1933/1970)
- Knightsbridge March (arr. Yoder) (1933/1940)
- London Suite (arr. Williams) (1934)
- The Merrymakers (arr Godfrey) (1923)
- Northwards
- Over to You
- Oxford Street (arr. Wagner) (1936/2009)
- Rediffusion
- Salute the Soldier
- The Seven Seas (arr. Duthoit) (1940)
- Sound and Vision
- Sweet Seventeen (arr. Duthoit) (1955)
- The Three Bears (arr. Godfrey (1928)
- The Three Elizabeths (arr. Duthoit) (1946)
- To-Day Is Ours (arr. Duthoit) (1940)
Resources
- By the Sleepy Lagoon, Wikipedia Accessed 13 January 2020