2006

for concert band

By:

• David Hamilton

Arranged by:

David Hamilton

Duration:

01' 55"

Instrumentation:

flute and optional piccolo, oboe, clarinet 1, 2 and 3, alto clarinet, bass clarinet; alto saxophone 1 and 2, tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone, trumpet 1 and 2, horn in F, trombone, baritone, tuba, bass; percussion

Availability

• This work has a score

Programme Note

This arrangement is based on a previous arrangement of the piece, which I had made for various combination. It was made for my ex-colleague Mary Siew and her band at Shanghai American School, prior to a planned visit there in early 2007.

New Zealand is too young a country to have a true ‘folk’ tradition and much traditional folk music is really variats of earlier British songs, often with local names and places substituted for the originals. In this piece it deals with the seas and the lives of sailors.

My source for some of the folk song arrangements I’ve made is Neil Colquhoun’s collection Songs of a Young Country: New Zealand Folksongs published over thirty years ago.

David Hamilton

Difficulty:

Intermediate

Influences:

• Sea and water - other

Performance History

	11 Apr 2010	Part of the Symphonic Band repertoire at the 2010 Bay of Plenty Music School in Tauranga