The Blind Fiddler
(1976)Cycle for mezzo-soprano and instrumental ensemble
Duration: 43'
Music Text
from the play `A Spell for Green Corn' by George Mackay Brown (E)
Scoring
fl(=picc,afl).cl(basset cl)(=bcl)-timp(2).perc(1)-guitar-hpd(=cel)-vln.vlc
perc:marimba/2wdbl/Chin.cym/2tpl.bl/spoons/maracas/tab/castanet
machine/2susp.cym/bell tree/bones/crot/rototoms/Japanese temple
gong placed on pedal timp/nipple gong/ant.cym
Territory
This work is available from Boosey & Hawkes
for the world.
World Premiere
20/02/1976
Freemasons' Hall, Edinburgh
Mary Thomas, soprano / The Fires of London / Peter Maxwell Davies