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Boosey & Hawkes

Territory
This work is available from Boosey & Hawkes for the world.
World Premiere
01/03/2012
Peterhouse, Cambridge
Edinburgh Quartet
Composer's Notes



This is a little miniature for string quartet written in memory of a little boy, the grandson of a friend, who died a few days after his birth.


Throughout, the first violin plays a simple fragment, like a nursery rhyme, repeating over and over again, pizzicato. The other instruments provide an ever-changing context for this little tune, sometimes accompanying it with easy harmonies, sometimes straying into stranger territory.


James MacMillan


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Edinburgh Quartet
Delphian DCD 34088

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