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BTC1130 HANKIN BOOBY

Folk dance for wind and drums
Composition date: 11 Dec 1966
Genre: Chamber
Duration: 2'
Commissioned:

By the Greater London Council for the opening of the Queen Elizabeth Hall, 1 March 1967.

Notes

Based on two folk melodies, 'Hankin booby' (or 'Half hannikin') and 'Mage on a cree'. The work was later incorporated into Suite on English folk tunes 'A time there was . . .', op. 90.

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