Another piece in the grand English tradition of using olde worlde musick as the basis for a string fantasia, of which the RVW Tallis and Tippett Corelli are just the two best-known examples.
Despite this lineage, it’s nothing like those two works, of course. Most obviously, it’s much shorter. For another thing, they both start and end with fairly “uncomplicated” quotations of the source material; this doesn’t.
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Another piece in the grand English tradition of using olde worlde musick as the basis for a string fantasia, of which the RVW Tallis and Tippett Corelli are just the two best-known examples.
Despite this lineage, it’s nothing like those two works, of course. Most obviously, it’s much shorter. For another thing, they both start and end with fairly “uncomplicated” quotations of the source material; this doesn’t.