Piano - Grade 3
SKU:
BT.MUSTH978431
Composed by George
Butterworth. Folk Music.
Book Only. 16 pages.
Thames Publishing
#MUSTH978431. Published
by Thames Publishing
(BT.MUSTH978431).
English.
The
Banks of Green Willow
begins in pastorale mode
with the title tune
established in the
Strings with solo
clarinet. The work builds
to quite a passionate
climax before
re-establishing the
pastorale mood of the
opening. Thesong on which
the story is based has a
tragic death at its
centre, which is
reflected in the
score.English composer
and folksong collector
George Butterworth, who
lived at the turn of the
last century and lost his
life in theFirst World
War, is known for his
settings of selections of
A E Housman’s A
Shropshire Lad and for an
Orchestral rhapsody he
composed on the same
theme. As a Recorder of
folksongs, he was
successful in noting more
thanthreehundred, mainly
from Sussex. One of them,
The Banks of Green
Willow, is the basis for
the idyll for Orchestra
that has been adapted
here for Piano.
George-Butterworth
