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''Three English songs with string quartet accompaniment''

Opus 21

== History ==
*Legley composed these songs on texts by Muriel Lytton in 1945 (see below for more details). Later, Legley has started a revision of the cycle, but he has never finished this new version.
*The first performance took probably place on 26 May 1946 in auditory Akarova in Brussels.<ref>[[De Roeck]], p.283.</ref> According to Legley himself, the work was not performed before 1948 by Ré Koster and the Haydn quartet at Flagey in Brussels.<ref>CeBeDeM - lijst werken: ''LIJST VAN DE WERKEN VAN VIC LEGLEY 22.6.1976'', p.9. More details are not known.</ref>

== Music ==
*instrumentation: mezzosoprano and string quartet<ref>2 violins, viola and cello.</ref>
*duration: ca 9' of 12'<ref>[[De Roeck]], p.282.</ref>

=== Parts ===
*I. The Veil
**text incipit: '''I see the landscape through the falling mist'''
**finished on 28 August 1945
**tempo: Andante
**time signature: '''3/4'''
* II. Harmony<ref name="een">[[De Roeck]] (p.282) switches songs ''II'' en ''III''. This seems to be how Legley had written it down on the it on the declaration for the NAVEA (SABAM), on which De Roeck based his description (he didn't have the score of the work at his disposal).</ref>
**text incipit: '''I dreamed that I walked in a wood at night'''
**finished on 18 September 1945 in Brussel
**time signature: '''5/4'''
* III. Dreaming<ref name="een"/>
**text incipit: '''To lay full length upon a hill'''
**finished on 12 October 1945 in Izegem
**tempo: Andante moderato
**time signature: '''2/4'''

== Sources ==
*autograph (first version and uncompleted revision): '''Royal Conservatory Brussels''' ''(B-Bc)'', shelf number [http://catalog.b-bc.org/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=28232 '''BV-03-4085''']

==Notes==
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[[Category:Thematic Catalogue Victor Legley]][[Category:1945/en]][[Category:Vocal music]][[Category:Music for voice and string quartet]][[Category:Music for string quartet]][[Category:Music for violin]][[Category:Music for viola]][[Category:Music for cello]][[Category:Chamber music]][[Category:Songs]][[Category:Vocal chamber music]]

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 Opus 21
 == History ==
-*Legley composed these songs on texts by Muriel Lytton in 1945 (see below for more details). Later, Legley has started a revision of the cycle, but he has never finished this new version.
+*Legley composed these songs on texts by Muriel Lytton in 1945 (see below for more details). Later Legley began revising the cycle, but he has never finished this new version.
-*The first performance took probably place on 26 May 1946 in auditory Akarova in Brussels.<ref>[[De Roeck]], p.283.</ref> According to Legley himself, the work was not performed before 1948 by Ré Koster and the Haydn quartet at Flagey in Brussels.<ref>CeBeDeM - lijst werken: ''LIJST VAN DE WERKEN VAN VIC LEGLEY 22.6.1976'', p.9. More details are not known.</ref>
+*The first performance was originally scheduled for 20 May 1946<ref>Concerning the problems of this date, which is sometimes erroneously cited as ''26'' May, see [[Concert for 13 instruments]].</ref> in the hall ''Akarova'' in Ixelles (Brussels). Due to hoarseness, however, singer Yetty Martens had to cancel the concert.<ref>P.T.: ''Concert Victor Legley'' in ''Le Soir'' of 24 May 1946, p.2. ''The Veil'' is not mentioned in his report of the concert either by Anonymous: ''Koncerten te Brussel - Werken van toondichter Victor Legley in de zaal Akarova'' in ''Het Laatste Nieuws'' of 22 May 1946, p.4. [[De Roeck/en|De Roeck]] (p.283) overlooked the fact that Yetty Martens did not sing the work in the end in May 1946, but did mention that the work was sung by Ré Koster at the N.I.R. in 1948.</ref> The actual creation, according to Legley himself, was only performed in 1948 by Ré Koster and the ''Haydn Quartet'' in Flagey in Brussels.<ref>CeBeDeM - lijst werken: ''LIJST VAN DE WERKEN VAN VIC LEGLEY 22.6.1976'', p.9. More details are not known. On 18 March 1948, many newspapers announce a radio broadcast of ''Radio Brussel'' in which Ré Koster and the string quartet ''Pro Nova'' perform a ''mixed chamber music performance'' (''Het Nieuwsblad'', p.2; ''Vooruit'', p.8; ''Het Laatste Nieuws'', p.9; ''Gazet van Antwerpen'', p.4; ''Het Handelsblad'', p.6; ''De Nieuwe Gids'', p.8; ''Het Volk'', p.11; ''De Gentenaar'', p.5). We suspect that this was the actual first performance, even though it concerns another string quartet than the ''Haydn quartet'' mentioned by Legley himself.</ref>
 == Music ==
-*instrumentation: mezzosoprano and string quartet<ref>2 violins, viola and cello.</ref>
+*instrumentation: mezzo-soprano and string quartet<ref>2 violins, viola and cello.</ref>
-*duration: ca 9' of 12'<ref>[[De Roeck]], p.282.</ref>
+*duration: ca 9' or 12'<ref>[[De Roeck/en|De Roeck]], p.282.</ref>
 === Parts ===
 *I. The Veil
 **text incipit: '''I see the landscape through the falling mist'''
-**finished on 28 August 1945
+**completed on 28 August 1945
 **tempo: Andante
 **time signature: '''3/4'''
-* II. Harmony<ref name="een">[[De Roeck]] (p.282) switches songs ''II'' en ''III''. This seems to be how Legley had written it down on the it on the declaration for the NAVEA (SABAM), on which De Roeck based his description (he didn't have the score of the work at his disposal).</ref>
+* II. Harmony<ref name="een">[[De Roeck/en|De Roeck]] (p.282) switches songs ''II'' en ''III''. Apparently Legley noted this differently on the ''declaration bulletin'' at the NAVEA (SABAM), on which De Roeck relies (he did not have a score of the work).</ref>
 **text incipit: '''I dreamed that I walked in a wood at night'''
-**finished on 18 September 1945 in Brussel
+**completed on 18 September 1945 in Brussels
 **time signature: '''5/4'''
 * III. Dreaming<ref name="een"/>
 **text incipit: '''To lay full length upon a hill'''
-**finished on 12 October 1945 in Izegem
+**completed on 12 October 1945 in Izegem
 **tempo: Andante moderato
 **time signature: '''2/4'''
 == Sources ==
-*autograph (first version and uncompleted revision): '''Royal Conservatory Brussels''' ''(B-Bc)'', shelf number [http://catalog.b-bc.org/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=28232 '''BV-03-4085''']
+*autograph (first version and incomplete revision): '''Royal Conservatory Brussels''' ''(B-Bc)'', shelf number [http://catalog.b-bc.org/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=28232 '''BV-03-4085''']
 ==Notes==
 <references/>
-[[Category:Thematic Catalogue Victor Legley]][[Category:1945/en]][[Category:Vocal music]][[Category:Music for voice and string quartet]][[Category:Music for string quartet]][[Category:Music for violin]][[Category:Music for viola]][[Category:Music for cello]][[Category:Chamber music]][[Category:Songs]][[Category:Vocal chamber music]]
+[[Category:Oeuvre Catalogue Victor Legley]][[Category:1945/en]][[Category:Vocal music]][[Category:Music for voice and string quartet]][[Category:Music for string quartet]][[Category:Music for violin]][[Category:Music for viola]][[Category:Music for cello]][[Category:Chamber music]][[Category:Songs]][[Category:Vocal chamber music]]

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Koenraad at 15:24, 10 September 2021

Koenraad: Created page with "''Three English songs with string quartet accompaniment'' Opus 21 == History == *Legley composed these songs on texts by Muriel Lytton in 1945 (see below for more details)...."