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Part of the On Track collection

13 specially commissioned pieces which aim to breathe new life into the GCSE/Key Stage 4 Music Ensemble Performance syllabus.
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Part of On Track, UYMP's Education Volume for Key Stage 4.

This gentle music was written in the autumn of 2005, and is one of a series of pieces for young players Gilbert produced around that time. The U and the Go are instruments used in Korean traditional ceremonial music. The first is a hand-held pipe-organ which the player blows into; the second a small flat double-headed drum. The music is written in the most common of the Korean scales, with just 5 pitches, and although the one genuine Korean melody, the well-known Arirang, only appears at the very end, one can hear anticipations of it all through the earlier music.

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Duration
3 minutes
Scoring
3 Variable Instruments in C/B flat, 1 Drum
Composition date
2005

Performances

16 October 2009

London New Wind Festival, Lauderdale House, Highgate Hill, London

 London New Wind Festival Players including Catherine Pluygers (oboe), Philip Edwards (clarinet), Robert Coleridge (piano)