Three Folk Dances

Composer: BOUGHTON, Rutland
  • Boughton composed Three Folk Dances in 1911.
  • Listen for: nearly unaltered folk melodies with spare, unobtrusive accompaniment. 

Boughton was a “believer in the authority of pure melody”

Musicologist Michael Hurd1

Sources

  1. Michael Hurd, liner notes to Rutland Boughton Aylesbury Games, Flute Concerto, Concerto for String Orchestra, Emily Beynon, New London Orchestra, Ronald Corp, Hyperion 67185, CD, 2000.

Cut IDs

43342