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Composed 2015. One of a series of fourteen accompaniments to texts published between 1896 - 1899
Duration 6:00 approx.
For two bass recorders and/or two violas and narrator. Score shows recorders in bass clef up 8.
Text - Dora Sigerson Shorter (1866 - 1918)
Dora Sigerson (1866 – 1918) was an Irish poet who, after her marriage in 1895, wrote under the name Dora Sigerson Shorter. 'The Wind on the Hills' appeared in her collection 'Ballads and Poems' published in 1899.
The narrator reads the text very slowly and deliberately, beginning each stanza after the instrument grace notes, which coincide with the score rehearsal letters. The 'X' noteheads in the instrument parts indicate air sounds or, if played by viola, a 'white noise' effect produced by bowing the instrument body.