Spider

Hawkes, John

Composed

2003

Instrumentation

Large Ensemble

Scoring

4 fl, 2 ob, 4 cl, b cl, a sax, t sax, 2 bsn, 2 hn in F, 2 tpt, tbn, timp in A and E, 2vln, vla, vc, db

Availability

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About the work

The title derives from the fact that the piece was originally written for a group called the ‘Cobwebs’ (as in ‘get your instrument out of the loft and blow the cobwebs off them’)