{"product_id":"griebling-haigh-windrush-madrigals-oboe-clarinet-piano-jeanne","title":"Griebling-Haigh, Margaret_The Windrush Madrigals","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom the composer:\u003cbr\u003e\"In June of 2000 I had the pleasant fortune of traveling through Devon, Dorset, Cornwall, and the Cotswalds in England with my family, and afterward had the idea of trying to write an impressionistic chamber piece which would combine a sort of instrumental adaptation of the madrigal while also capturing images from this trip. | actually jotted down several possible titles, and was most grateful when Valarie and John Anderson commissioned a trio for oboe clarinet, and piano. which struck me as being the perfect vehicle for this kind of piece. I called it “The Windrush Madrigals”’.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Windrush River is a small, rippling, and pristine stream, which twists its way through the villages of the Cotswalds. It seemed to me to be a joyful and innocent little river. The first movement, “The Queen Was Seen Bedeck’d in Green”, is based on the merest fragment of that beloved madrigal by Thomas Morley, “Now is the Month of Maying”, but in a spritely 5\/8 meter. It was written with my young, imaginative, creative, and free-spirited daughter in mind. I have tried to portray a certain nostalgia for Elizabethan England but with a considerably larger range of drama than would have been found in any single madrigal of that time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Swans and Willows”, marked \u003ci\u003eAndante molto tranquillo e legato\u003c\/i\u003e, follows. This movement is based on my memory of the swans in the moat around Wells Cathedral in Somerset on a warm, sunny afternoon. These are the famous “bell-ringing swans” which, according to tradition, have been taught to pull a cord attached to a bell when they wish to be fed. The piece is overall lazy and full of gently rippling water and dangling willow branches but also depicts the commotion of the take offs and landings of large waterfowl.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe thematic material of the third movement harkens back to old rounds and catches. “Sir William” in this case is a river otter whose only mission in life is to have as much fun as possible. The combination of oboe and clarinet is ideal for representing the splashing of paws and the sliding down riverbanks, while the piano provides the sparkling of sunlight on water and the clarity of the air.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jeanné Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48990013915386,"sku":"JP5035","price":45.25,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2337\/0861\/files\/img097_d7fcb622-50d4-43d8-b197-c633f954f5da.jpg?v=1781114272","url":"https:\/\/www.clarinetallmusic.com\/products\/griebling-haigh-windrush-madrigals-oboe-clarinet-piano-jeanne","provider":"CAMco Music, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}