Baritone Voice and Piano
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BT.MUSM570365081
Baritone Voice And
Piano Performing
Score. Composed by
Sadie Harrison. Folk
Music. Vocal Score. 24
pages. University of York
Music Press
#MUSM570365081. Published
by University of York
Music Press
(BT.MUSM570365081).
English.
Compose
d in 2012, the two pieces
in Sadie Harrison’s
Heartoutbursts! take
their inspiration from
traditional English folk.
' ...in the folk-song
there is to be found the
complete history of a
people, recorded by the
race itself, through the
heartoutbursts of its
healthiest output. It is
a history compiled with
deeper feeling and more
understanding than can be
found among the dates and
data of thegreatest
historian... '(Percy
Grainger 1922) In 1905,
Joseph Taylor won a
Lincolnshire folksong
competition with his
rendition of Brigg Fair ,
a song he had learnt from
a gypsy. Australian
composer Percy Grainger
subsequently published a
setting in his
Lincolnshire Posy , with
Delius usingthe tune in
his rhapsody, Brigg Fair
. Both composers sought
to vivify the tradition
of English folksong,
celebrating not only the
ancient tunes and words
but also the qualities of
particular folksingers
like Joseph Taylor.
Harrison’s own
Australian
Heartoutbursts! follow
unashamedly in the
Grainger tradition with
echoes of the original
folktunes underpinning
both songs Brigg Fair and
The Seeds of Love .
Although different in
character, both texts use
similar images as
analogies for the joys
and despairing associated
with love - the lark and
violet symbolize youth,
the lily as virginity,
the red rose as true
love, and the willow
representing falsehood
and abandonment.
Image of Love
