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Hilary Tann Catalogue

Discover works by Hilary Tann from Oxford University Press.

Discover works by Hilary Tann from Oxford University Press.

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From the Feather to the<br />

Mountain<br />

Full orchestra<br />

Hire score and parts 9780193868854<br />

‘Walking’ passages (with hints of New York folksongs) link<br />

the three main sections: ‘Cloudscape’, ‘Landscape’, and<br />

‘Mountainscape’ in this through-composed piece. The<br />

image of the title comes from a recorded statement by<br />

artist Arnie Bittleman: “I found a feather while walking<br />

down a road. The feather, if you look closely, has a<br />

landscape, a cloudscape in it.”<br />

13 minutes<br />

The Grey Tide and the Green<br />

Full orchestra<br />

Hire score and parts<br />

The Grey Tide and the Green was commissioned for the<br />

Last Night of the Welsh Proms 2000. Recalling the lichencovered,<br />

low stone walls in <strong>Tann</strong>’s childhood home in<br />

Ferndale, Wales, this work is also influenced by R.S. Thomas’<br />

short poem ‘Boundaries’. The imagery Thomas describes<br />

in the poem draws out the textural contrasts which<br />

underlie the piece as a whole - contrasts between fast<br />

string-dominated passages (“moorland”), resonant brassdominated<br />

passages (“stone boundaries”), an bell-like<br />

sections (“cathedrals”).<br />

11 minutes<br />

Here, the Cliffs<br />

Violin and orchestra<br />

Hire score and parts 9780193861220<br />

<strong>Hilary</strong> <strong>Tann</strong> was inspired to write Here, The Cliffs by Craig<br />

Cerrig-gleisiad, a striking rock formation near her home<br />

in South Wales. The single movement work is in a Vivace-<br />

Adagio-Vivace structure. The soloist enters beneath the<br />

high, bright sound of the opening, and leads the orchestra<br />

into a light, fast Vivace. The central Adagio is developed<br />

from the falling mist idea, shrouded in mystery and great<br />

sadness as the low, dense mist curls downward over rocks.<br />

When the Vivace returns it is transformed as its conclusion<br />

by the powerful re-emergence of fragments of the Adagio.<br />

16 minutes<br />

In the First, Spinning Place<br />

Alto saxophone and piano/full orchestra/wind<br />

orchestra<br />

Alto saxophone and piano 9780193369108<br />

Hire score and parts - full orchestra 9780193863057<br />

Hire score and parts - wind orchestra 9780193409590<br />

In the First, Spinning Place was inspired by Dylan Thomas’s<br />

exuberant poem ‘Fern Hill’. The first section of the concerto<br />

is a light, dancing movement, the second section contains<br />

echoes of Welsh hymnody, and the third section is a<br />

fast, scherzando finale where the soloist sets the whole<br />

orchestra “spinning”.<br />

12 minutes<br />

The Open Field (In memoriam<br />

Tiananmen Square)<br />

Full orchestra<br />

Hire score and parts 9780193858534<br />

A strong feature of this work is the celebratory brass<br />

fanfare, but while writing this <strong>Tann</strong> heard of the events of<br />

Tiananmen Square in June 1989 and changed the nature<br />

of the piece to something darker and more reflective.<br />

The reference to the open field was inspired by a Robert<br />

Duncan poem entitled ‘The Opening of the Field’ - “often I<br />

am permitted to return to a meadow, as if it were a scene<br />

made-up by my mind, that is not mine , but is a made<br />

place”.<br />

11 minutes<br />

Sarsen<br />

Full orchestra<br />

Hire score and parts 9780193865679<br />

Sarsen, in three movements, was inspired by particular<br />

standing stones or ‘sarsens’, moving from natural<br />

wilderness, (Adirondack Mountains, New York) to stylized<br />

formality (Rock in the Garden of the Master of the Nets in<br />

Suzhou, China), and finally, ceremonial (Avebury, UK). Each<br />

of the movements may also be performed separately.<br />

11 minutes<br />

Through Echoing Timber<br />

Full orchestra<br />

Hire score and parts 9780193859074<br />

A celebratory fanfare-overture, the title is taken from<br />

Gerard Manley Hopkins’ poem, ‘Spring’. This short, dramatic<br />

piece features a prominent part for brass.<br />

4 minutes<br />

Full Orchestra<br />

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