Three Brecht Songs

Gordon, Morgan

Duration

4m 20s

Composed

1988

Instrumentation

Voices and Instruments

Scoring

msop, 2 fl, bcl, perc, va

Availability

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About the work

The pieces set are: Little Song ; Changing the Wheel; Fairground Song

First Performance: 1988, BMIC

Technical notes

The music is described as ‘vaguely Kurt Weillish’. The songs are set at contrasting tempi, the first moderate, the second very sustained, and the third fast with frequent changes in metre and tempo.