English Idyll No. 1

Composer: BUTTERWORTH, George
  • From Two English Idylls,1 which Butterworth composed in 1910-1911. The set was first performed in Oxford in 1912.2
    • An idyll is a musical work “evoking the quality of pastoral or rustic life” (Harvard Dictionary of Music), the name derived from a pastoral literary genre.3
  • Both English Idylls are rhapsodies based on folk tunes Butterworth collected in Sussex. In English Idyll no. 1, the tunes quoted are “Dabbling in the Dew,” “Just as the Tide Was Flowing,” and “Henry Martin.”4

Sources

  1. Stephen Banfield, “Butterworth, George,” Grove Music Online (2001), accessed August 14, 2019, https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000004467.
  2. Michael Kennedy, “Two English Idylls,” Hyperion Records (2003), accessed August 14, 2019, https://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/dw.asp?dc=W20226_134103.
  3. Harvard Dictionary of Music, 4th ed., s.v. “Idyll” (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2003).
  4. Kennedy, “Two English Idylls,” Hyperion Records.

Cut IDs

10624, 21418