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Village Fair

Sheet Music: Score

Village Fair : a ballet for orchestra / by Miriam Hyde.

by Miriam Hyde (1943)

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  • Instrumentation: 2 flutes (1 doubling piccolo), 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 2 horns, 2 trumpets, trombone, timpani, percussion, strings.
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  • Audio Sample

    Performance by Sydney Symphony, Dobbs Franks from the CD Australian composers, Vol.1.

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This work was originally composed as a ballet, which was to be part of a show for the Red Cross in wartime Adelaide. The commission fee did not, however, eventuate, and the ballet was never choreographed.

Miriam Hyde wrote to her husband Marcus Edwards on 24 January 1943 (he was then a POW in Germany): 'I've done quite a bit of work on my ballet this week, and now have about 9 minutes' worth of piano score, the characters of pie-man, flower-girl, gypsy, and hurdy-gurdy man being interspersed with variations on 'O dear what can the matter be'. It will be nice to score, as the ideas have come to me in non-pianistic idiom, for a start. I'd like one or two more characters, and wish you could suggest some, darling. My friends suggest coconut shy, world's biggest man, etc., but such concepts would ruin my composition as a piece of independent music, which I hope it may be!'

Although a recording on CD was made by the Sydney Symphony Orchestra in 1979, it was not until 29 March 1995 that Miriam Hyde heard her first live performance of 'Village Fair', while attending a rehearsal of it by the Strathfield Symphony Orchestra conducted by Solomon Bard. For the programme notes of the subsequent concert, she wrote that 'Memories of attending a Fair with a friend in Witney, Oxfordshire, came to my aid in conjuring-up this music.'

Published by: Australian Music Centre — 1 facsimile score (44p. -- A3 (landscape))

Difficulty: Medium

Duration: 14 mins

This is a handwritten edition — it is not typeset.


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