Caoineadh
THE FOX EDITION
CHRISTOPHER FOX
Caoineadh
for flute, clarinet, piano, violin and cello
INSTRUMENTATION
Flute (doubling alto flute and piccolo) Clarinet in B flat
Piano
Violin (with metal practice-mute) Cello
NOTATION
The violin and cello parts use a mixture of sixth- and quarter-tone accidentals:
Caoineadh was written in 2017 for the London Ear Festival, who commissioned it, and will be premiered by the London Sinfonietta in The Warehouse, London on 22nd March 2018.
It is dedicated to the memory of my friend, the musician and musicologist, Bob Gilmore, who died at the beginning of 2015. The title in Gaelic means ‘cry’ or ‘lament’ and if pronounced in Bob’s northern Irish accent would sound something like ‘keen-er’.
Caoineadh lasts about fifteen minutes.
q. = 48
Caoineadh
Christopher Fox
alto flute
clarinet in Bb
piano
violin
cello
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