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Hugh Dixon

Duration: 21' 00" Year: 2004
for flute, violin, horn, and cello

Programme Note

Lyric Sketches had its genesis in a suggestion from the composer’s son, Michael, to arrange my Songs of Mystic Jade for his quartet, Locana.

This cycle of structurally-related songs with the inclusion of Anthem to the Dawn and The Babbling Brook became a suite of eight pieces. The suite begins with Anthem to the Dawn inspired by a poem the composer’s wife, Rae, wrote a number of years ago. The grandioso section of the final movement, Motion, posed a problem in orchestrating the rolling arpeggios with sustaining pedal of the original piano part. I acknowledge Michael’s suggested solution which helped to retain a similar effect within the limitation of the four instruments.
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