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In a rare fit of pastoral sentiment, I gave George Butterworth’s The Banks of Green Willow a listening to. The piece was written in 1913 and was based on folk tunes that Butterworth had collected in Sussex in 1907 and 1909.
I love this type of British music. The folk tunes connect the music to the land and create the most pleasant feeling of nostalgia. It is the nostalgia for a day and age that most of us have only experienced while watching a Merchant Ivory film.
The composer of this idyllic masterpiece is not well known. Butterworth’s other noteworthy compositions were Two English Idylls and a song setting of poems from E. A. Housman’s A Shropshire Lad.
Butterworth’s music has a sensitive and earthy joy about it.
George Butterworth was shot through the head by a sniper during World War I at the Battle of the Somme. He was 31-years-old.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlXE1152dyc
In a rare fit of pastoral sentiment, I gave George Butterworth’s The Banks of Green Willow a listening to. The piece was written in 1913 and was based on folk tunes that Butterworth had collected in Sussex in 1907 and 1909.
I love this type of British music. The folk tunes connect the music to the land and create the most pleasant feeling of nostalgia. It is the nostalgia for a day and age that most of us have only experienced while watching a Merchant Ivory film.
The composer of this idyllic masterpiece is not well known. Butterworth’s other noteworthy compositions were Two English Idylls and a song setting of poems from E. A. Housman’s A Shropshire Lad.
Butterworth’s music has a sensitive and earthy joy about it.
George Butterworth was shot through the head by a sniper during World War I at the Battle of the Somme. He was 31-years-old.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlXE1152dyc