Klarinet Archive - Posting 000084.txt from 1997/03

From: "David C. Blumberg" <reedman@-----.COM>
Subj: Re: Maritime Orchestral Music
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 1997 09:11:38 -0500

Russian Sailors Dance - Glinka. Vaughn Williams I'm sure wrote several
pieces with a maritime theme. How about his Folk Song suite?

At 06:41 AM 3/3/97 -0500, Mark Charette wrote:
>Gary DEATON, Ireland wrote:
>> I am trying to put together an orchestral programme with a maritime
>> theme. So far I've come up with the obvious ones like Debussy's La Mer
>> and Nocturnes, and Handel's Water Music.
>>
>>From 5 minutes of searching using various nautical terms on the
>database at http://sneezy.mika.com/clarinet/Databases:
>
>Takemitsu,Toru - Water-ways
>Argento,Dominick - To be sung upon the water; barcarolles and nocturnes
>Tower,Joan - Fantasy (those harbor lights...)
>Powers,Anthony - Sea/air
>Sculthorpe,Peter - Songs of sea and sky
>McKay,George Frederick - Three Sea Sketches
>Basart,Robert - The round ocean and the living air
>Arnold,Malcolm - Three Shanties
>
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David C. Blumberg
Principal Clarinet Riverside Symphonia
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