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Malvern Music
Edward Elgar
approx. 6 minutes
String Quartet
| score: | $TBD |
| set of parts: | $TBD |
| extra parts, each: | $TBD
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Three movements arranged from Elgar's Op. 4 originally for violin and piano.
The composer's original bowings for violin have been maintained,
though now distributed between first and second violin.
| Idylle | |
Dedicated to a young lady whom he met while on holiday in Scotland
(a romantic idyll?) whose initials were also E.E. |
| Pastourelle | |
Has the feel of the countryside with it's undulating 6/8 rhythm. |
| Virelai | |
An early example of Elgar's fondness for enigmas! Virelai was a style
of French lyrical poetry yet this piece has no text but the dedication consequently
was to a Malvern friend in French. |
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