Organ
SKU:
HL.14008939
Composed
by Peter Dickinson. Music
Sales America. 20th
Century. Book
[Softcover]. 32 pages.
Music Sales #NOV010237.
Published by Music Sales
(HL.14008939).
ISBN
9780853609551.
8.25x11.75x0.178
inches.
The Blue
Rose Variations is one of
several works in which
the composer has drawn on
ragtime and blues. The
organ work is based on
two transformations of
the popular piano piece
To A Wild Rose (Woodland
Sketches, Op.51 No.1) by
the American composer,
Edward MacDowell
(1860-1908). During the
course of the Variations,
To A Wild Rose appears as
a blues and also as a
classical rag, often as
both together. The
sections are Theme: a
quiet blues; Variation I:
a pedal solo in varied
metres based on the blues
in fast tempo; Variation
II: the first appearance
of the rag as a
background to the blues
as a 2' pedal solo;
Variation III: a version
of Variation I now
involving manuals too;
Variation IV: another
blues solo against the
rag; Variation V: another
version of Variation I
with the pedal solo
almost entirely
transferred to the
manuals; Variation VI: a
final confrontation
between the blues and the
rag, now much decorated.
First performed in New
York in April 1986.
Duration c.15 mins.
