Holloway, Robin (b.1943)

the score for flute, oboe (and cor anglais), clarinet, horn and bassoon, written in black ink on up to fourteen staves per page, with calligraphic title above the music, with careful deletions (using correction fluid) and alterations, comprising five movements ("I rather fast: feroce"; "II rather slow: nostalgico, quasi im Volkston"; "III very slow"; "IV vivace"; "V gently flowing, not too slow: sempre espressivo totalamente"), a few annotated in the margins ("...slightly accent first note of each group..."), 14 pages, oblong folio (c.42 x 29.5cms), 18-stave paper, September 2007



Illustrated with the kind permission of the composer; (c) Copyright 2007 by Boosey & Hawkes Music Publishers Ltd

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The composer notes that "Traditionally it's four temperaments, of course. But these five movements do not depict the traditional 'humours' (choleric, phlegmatic, sanguine, melancholic) of medieval humanism (though perhaps a couple overlap). Rather, they are five states of mind, evoking human moods shared in varying mixes and proportions by everybody".  The oboe plays mainly the cor anglais in the second, third and fourth movements.  Robin Holloway has been a lecturer and then Professor at the University of Cambridge for over 30 years.  Two works by Holloway were given at this year's BBC Proms, both based on the music of Robert Schumann.