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Gavin Higgins: So Spoke Albion for brass band - Championship, Section 1, Section 2 [Printed Music]
£150.00
In stock
Catalogue Number
NMP1360
For Brass Band - Championship, Section 1, Section 2
103-page A4 wire-bound Score & 23 x A4 saddle-stitched Parts
Duration: c. 17 mins
ISMN No: 979-0-708229-10-0
William Blake (1757 – 1827) is a seminal figure in the world of visual arts and poetry. He was a prolific artist, poet, illustrator, printer and engraver whose enormous body of work went largely unrecognised during his lifetime. A rebellious and radical thinker he was and enigmatic outsider and misunderstood by his contemporaries who often thought him mad. He was a complex man with an unusual set of beliefs for his time: a Christian who attacked organised religion; a mystic who would see ‘visions’ of angels; and a forerunner of the ‘free love’ movement. In this piece I have taken inspiration from several aspects of Blake’s life: Blake the visionary, Blake the man (or rather his relationship with his wife, Catherine and the integral role she played in his creative process) and Blake the artist. The title for the piece comes from Blake’s final and longest epic poem, Jerusalem: the emanation of the giant Albion: So spoke Albion in jealous fears, hiding his Emanation Upon the Thames and Medway, rivers of Beulah: Dissembling His Jealousy before the throne divine, darkening cold! © Gavin Higgins
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