Herbert Howells
Partita for Organ
Herbert Howells
Partita for Organ
- Instrumentation Organ
- Composer Herbert Howells
- Edition Sheet Music
- Publisher Novello Publishing
- Order no. NOV010136
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Description:
The Partita, composed in 1971, is inscribed 'For the Rt Hon. Edward Heath, M. P. , Prime Minister'. Its five movements enjoy the almost improvisatory freedom that is characteristic for Howells' writing, yet they are bound together by a kind of cyclic feeling engendered by a fairly consistent use of an original mode: it descends from C to C as follows: C, B, B flat, G, F sharp, E, E flat, C. The Partita exploits both the melodic and harmonic implications of the mode.