Pavane & Galliard (in modo semplice) (2025)
Organ (or any other keyboard instrument)
Duration:
5’
First Performance:
TBC
Score
Programme note
The Pavan & Galliard (in modo semplice) are (as the title suggests) simple pieces for a small organ, or alternative. In writing the work I became reacquainted with Herbert Howells’s Lambert’s Clavichord, his set of pieces largely written in 1927 which were in many ways a love-letter to the Tudor period and the composers flourishing at that time. Amongst my favourites in the set are the modal melancholy of ‘De La Mare’s Pavane’ and the wild abandon of ‘Sir Hugh’s Galliard’. In no way are my pieces a pastiche of Howells, but rather acknowledging the inspiration of his work, which in turn acknowledges that of his Tudor forebears. I thought it made for a satisfying homage to English music that speaks to me above all others.
PAC