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Boyce, William: Overtures for Orchestra

Ref: MB13 ISBN: 9780852494134 ISMN: 9790220201578 Categories: , By:

£100.00

Edited by Gerald Finzi
First published in 1957
Pages: 196
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.

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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’
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