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Six English Tunes

Originally for String Quintet

arranged for piano duet

Peter Warlock

arr. John Mitchell

During the 1920s, Peter Warlock (1894–1930) did much pioneering work in the field of transcribing and editing early music, and one of the manuscripts he scrutinised was an early 17th century part-book in the British Museum. From this manuscript he extracted six numbers which he then transcribed for string quintet, and they were published by Oxford University Press in 1926 as Six English Tunes. Although Warlock described them as ‘tunes’, each of them has a strong feel of a dance movement. Around the time they were published, Warlock went on to compose Capriol, his most popular composition, which is also in six movements, perhaps raising the question whether there might be a loose connection between the two works. Warlock’s having written Capriol as a piano duet was accordingly the cue to arrange the Six English Tunes for this medium by way of making it a companion piece.

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		Composer	Title	Grade	Forces
		Peter Warlock arr. John Mitchell	Six English Tunes Originally for String Quintet arranged for piano duet	7	Piano duet, String Quintet
	#	Composer	Movement		Forces
	1	arr. John Mitchell Peter Warlock	The Witch		Piano duet
	2		Daphne
	3		Strawberry Leaves Warlock’s transcription		String Quintet
	4		Strawberry Leaves		Piano duet
	5		Tickle my Toe
	6		Sweet Youth
	7		A Toy

Catalogue code: FM225 • Published: 20th July 2020
Entry last updated: 20th July 2020