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Anniversary Dances
Conductor's score and parts on hire
978-0-19-365557-7
07 November 1985
Price: Available on request
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for full orchestra Forces or CategoryFull orchestraDuration23 minutesDifficultyModerately difficultOrchestration3 fl (III+ picc), 2 ob, 2 cl, 2 bn, cbn, 4 hn, 3 tpt, 3 tbn, tba, timp, 3 perc (SD, bell, BD, tamb, cym, clash cym, tri, glock, tam, bongo, cas, w blk), hp or cel, strProgramme
NotesThis work was composed in celebration of the Centenary of the founding of the University College of North Wales, Bangor. It consists of a Prelude, Five Dances, and Finale.
The opening Prelude, with its dancing brass fanfares, leads without a break to the first Dance which is lively and vigorous. A harp glissando (with side drum roll) leads into the second Dance, which is slow and mesmeric - in total contrast. Dance No.3, marked Vivace, has strong hints of parody, even to the momentary use of castanets, while No.4 (Allegro scherzando) is spiky and edgy in its use of woodwind and muted brass. No.5 (Andante cantabile) is warm and Celtic in mood, featuring a broad-spanned melody first heard in the horns. A brief harp glissando leads
without pause into the Finale, which redeploys and develops the music of the work's opening towards a highly energetic and positive Coda.
There are no direct folk-song quotations. Despite their variety the Dances are linked in musical terms, allowing the work to form a kind of Dance Ceremony for orchestra.
© William Mathias, 1985
Reproduced by permission of Oxford University Press
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William Mathias (1934-1992) William Mathias was born in Whitland, Dyfed. He studied at the University College of Wales, and subsequently at the Royal Academy of Music. From 1970-1988 he was Head of the Music Department at the University College of North Wales, Bangor.
Mathias musical language embraced both instrumental and vocal forms with equal success, and he addressed a large and varied audience both in Britain and abroad. He was also known as a conductor and pianist, and gave or directed many premières of his own works. He was made CBE in the 1985 New Year's Honours. In 1992, the year of his death, Nimbus Records embarked upon a series of recordings of his major works.
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