Boyce, William: Overtures for Orchestra
£85.00
Edited by Gerald Finzi
First published in 1957
Pages: 195
Format: Paperback
Dimensions (mm): 330 x 254 x 17
Weight: 1.088kg
A collection that includes some of the liveliest and most attractive orchestral music by any 18th-century English composer – edited by a 20th-century composer who pioneered a reappraisal of Boyce’s achievement. Most of the pieces are drawn from New Year and Royal Birthday Odes.
Performing material for rental is available for eight of the Overtures.
Description
CONTENTS
| Title |
|---|
| Overture: Ode for His Majesty’s Birthday, 1755, and New Year, 1779 |
| Overture: Ode for His Majesty’s Birthday, 1758 |
| Overture: Ode for His Majesty’s Birthday, 1768 (HL13) |
| Overture: Ode for His Majesty’s Birthday, 1769 (HL252) |
| Overture: Ode for His Majesty’s Birthday, 1770 |
| Overture: Ode for His Majesty’s Birthday, 1771 |
| Overture: Ode for His Majesty’s Birthday, 1772 (HL273) |
| Overture: Ode for His Majesty’s Birthday, 1775 (HL258) |
| Overture: Ode for the New Year, 1758 (HL14) |
| Overture: Ode for the New Year, 1760 |
| Overture: Ode for the New Year, 1770 (HL267) |
| Overture: Ode for the New Year, 1771 (HL268) |
| Overture: Ode for the New Year, 1772 (HL15) |
| Overture: Ode for the New Year, 1777 |
| Overture: Ode for St. Cecilia’s Day (Vidal) |
| Overture: Part II, St. Cecilia Ode (Lockman) (HL354) |
| Overture: Peleus and Thetis |
| Symphony ‘The Souls of the Righteous’ |
