Scottish Dance Suite
(1959) For Orchestra
Duration 8'
Orchestration 2(pic)222/4230/timp.perc/hp/str

Premiere: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
James Lockhart, conductor

Publisher:  Chester Music Ltd

Composer's Note:

The Sottish Dance Suite is based on traditional Scottish folk songs and dances, though several less well-known tunes are used. For instance in the second of the four movements, one can hear the older tune of The bonnie Earl of Moray, and in the first movement, the tune is the one to which Burns wrote his famous poem Robin shure in hairst. In the last movement, two well-known tunes alternate, but at the end several of the tunes used in the work all combine together to make an exciting climax.

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