An Old Song

Composer: WARLOCK, Peter
  • Warlock composed this work for small orchestra in 1917.1
  • This is Warlock’s earliest surviving orchestral work.2 He wrote it before he began consistently publishing under the pseudonym of “Peter Warlock” (in August 1918).3
  • The theme of this work is a Scottish folk song called “There was anes a May.” The tune is introduced in the oboe after a short introduction.4

Sources

  1. Barry Smith, “Warlock, Peter,” Grove Music Online (2001), accessed August 13, 2021, https://www.oxfordmusiconline./grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000029912.
  2. Michael Hurd, liner notes to English Miniatures, Northern Sinfonia of England, Richard Hickox, EMI 49933-2, CD, 1991.
  3. Smith, “Warlock, Peter,” Grove Music Online.
  4. Peter Warlock, An Old Song (London: J. & W. Chester Ltd., 1923).

Cut IDs

11951