Martin Dalby

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Concertino For Six Trumpets And Timpani (1965)
 Programme Note available
Martin Dalby
First performance:
Trumpet Ensemble directed by Nigel Boddice., RSAMD, 16 Nov 1993

Work Details

Category: chamber septet Brass
Duration: 10'
Instrumentation: 6 Tpt Tp

SMC Holdings

   Score : Warwick Publishing / Location: ref library   [enquire]
   Score : Warwick Publishing / Location: archive collection   [enquire]
   Part(s) : Warwick Publishing / Location: archive collection   [enquire]
Programme Note

Concertino for Six Trumpets and Timpani (1965) Martin Dalby

Written while Dalby was still a student for Peter White and his friends. Some of the work may well have been written in Rome. It is a companion piece to a number of earlier works for the same combination. The style reflects Dalby's fascination for the musical language of Skalkottas which interested him at the time. In particular, the brevity and nature of the movements are a direct parallel to Skalkottas' Ten Sketches for Strings.

1. Fanfare 00.30
2. Waltz 01.00
3. Trumpet Tune 00.45
4. Blues 00.50
5. Cantilena 00.30
6. Berceuse 01.00
7. Galop 00.30

© Copyright Martin Dalby
Publisher: None; score and parts (2tpts in D, 4 in B flat) on hire from composer* or through the Scottish Music Information Centre .

*Martin Dalby
23 Muirpark Way
Drymen,
G63 ODX.

Tel: 0360-660427
Fax: 0360-660397

 Scottish Music Information Centre,
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Glasgow, G12 9LR.

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Score and parts: also with Nigel Boddice - and RSAMD?

Computer disk of parts in C with Charles Ketteringham 041 776 5056

First Performance: RSAMD, 16 November 1993, directed by Nigel Boddice.

Dedication: For Peter White

Completion: London, 25 April 1965 (the composer's 23rd birthday)

Original score lost but reconstructed by Charles Ketteringham and Nigel Boddice from composer's original short score.

Dalby remembers that the piece was written early in 1965 for a group of former brass students at the Royal College of Music including Peter White, a trumpet student there. The music clearly shows the influence of Skalkottas's 10 Sketches for Strings which had excited Dalby when he encountered the work during his years in Italy (Sept 1963 to July 1965). Skalkottas's work was to have a profound influence on Dalby's later musical language and style.

Note: Original scoring for 2 trumpets in D, 4 trumpets in B flat and timpani (3 drums). 1st performance: 6 B flat trumpets (no mutes used) and timpani. Original score would have included mutes and these in time will be restored to the score and parts.