Consort Music

Composer: BUSH, Geoffrey
  • Bush wrote Consort Music ‘6 Victorian Sketches’ for strings in 1987. This piece is an homage to Victorian music, a style Bush often edited for publication.1
  • The movements of “Consort Music” represent a variety of styles popular during the Victorian era, particularly during the time of Prince Albert (1819-1861),2 the Royal Consort to Queen Victoria.
    • The title “Consort Music” is in honor of Prince Albert (not a reference to the Elizabethan chamber genre “consort music”)3

Sources

  1. Malcolm Milller, “Bush, Geoffrey,” Grove Music Online (2001), accessed August 14, 2019,  https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000004433.
  2. “Prince Albert (1819-1861), BBC History, accessed August 14, 2019, http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/albert_prince.shtml.
  3. Philip Lane, liner notes to English String Miniatures Volume 2, English Northern Philharmonia, David Lloyd-Jones, Naxos 8.555068, CD, 2001.

Cut IDs

18805