Sheet Music: Score
Aria for Edward John Eyre / David Lumsdaine.
by David Lumsdaine (1972)
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- Instrumentation: Soprano, solo double bass, 2 narrators, 3 clarinets (doubling bass clarinets), trumpet, horn, trombone, percussion (2 players), harp, 2 mixers (and assistants).
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Audio Sample
Performance by Merlyn Quaife, Peter Gwynne, John Tong, David Stanhope, Seymour Group from the CD Aria for Edward John Eyre, by David Lumsdaine ; The Owl, by Nigel Butterley
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Product details
Published by: University of York Music Press — 1 score (122p. -- A3+ (portrait))
Difficulty: Advanced — Professional.
Duration: 57 min.
Commissioned by BBC.
First performance by Jane Manning, Barry Guy, John Baddeley, John Rye, City of London Sinfonia, Elgar Howarth — 29 Jan 73. BBC Invitation Concert, Liverpool, UK.
Includes performance notes.
Text is taken from Eyre, E.J. - Journals of Expeditions of Discovery into Central Australia and Overland from Adelaide to King George's Sound, in the years 1840-41 (London, 1843), condensed and treated by the composer.
This is a handwritten edition — it is not typeset.
ISMN: M-57020-039-9
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