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Kelso overture

Sheet Music: Score

Kelso overture / by Miriam Hyde.

by Miriam Hyde (1959)

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  • Instrumentation: 3 flutes/piccolo, 2 oboes, cor anglais, 2 clarinets, bass clarinet, 2 bassoons, contrabassoon, 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 2 tenor trombones, bass trombone/tuba, timpani, percussion, strings.
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    From the CD Kelso overture & works recorded at her 90th birthday concert

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Kelso Overture was written early in 1959, in happy anticipation of moving to a property in Kelso Street, Burwood Heights in Sydney.

Scored for big orchestra, it opens jubilantly in D major with an upward-leaping 6th, and vigorous rhythmic drive. The same theme, modified in a more ardent melodic line, is soon heard at a high pitch on the cellos, with the appeal of a sustained string tune. This is the chief unifying material of the overture.

Several secondary themes, however, make a conspicuous contribution. After a running woodwind passage (which at the last moment gives place to the more telling trumpet) the strings settle into an insistent rhythmic background, over which staccato woodwind figures incisively prance. This section incorporates a repeated phrase, with an ornamental semiquaver triplet in its otherwise forthright statement. Trombones are heard cutting against it, in contrary motion.

Later, this motif "stands on its own", announced by cor anglais and extensively developed by woodwind and horns. It has something of the primitive about it, some echo perhaps of tales and tunes from the Aborigines by Lake Albert (Sth. Aust.), passed on by the composer's father, from memories of boyhood days at "Warrengie" station. The old bottlebrush tree in the garden at Kelso Street, too, stands as a link with the bush as it was before suburban dwellings encroached on it.

Finally this theme on horns, combined with the renewed thrust of the first subject, forms an exuberant coda.

The first three performances were by the Queensland Symphony Orchestra late in 1960 and early 1961, conducted by Rudolf Pekarek, to whom it was dedicated.
- Miriam Hyde.

Published by: Australian Music Centre — 1 facsimile score (27p. -- A3 (portrait))

Difficulty: Advanced

Duration: 6 mins

Dedicated to Rudolf Pekarek

Score is of very poor quality - please see sample file. To purchase copies please select typeset version.

This is a handwritten edition — it is not typeset.

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