The melody is structured as A, A1, B, A2. A four-phrase subject in E major, which shows an obvious similarity to the "Pity Me" chorale, and the tune on Robson Booth's Tape Ballad entitled The Crofter. Part One - The Crofter, and the coming of the factoriesī1: Left hand drones in Tonic, Dominant, Tonic 8ve configuration (E,B,e), as one would find on Northumbrian Smallpipes drones.īb2-10: First Subject (1). No key signature or obvious tonic until the second half of the bar, which has a plagal cadence ending on an E5 chord, and the E major key signature is added. NB: The titles of parts one and two are our own, not those of Gaynor Leigh.ī0: introductory phrase almost identical to the Winter Tempo. He awoke at peace, certain that the Earth would finally reclaim what was hers." The final destruction of Seaton Snook came crashing down. As the herd stared into the poisoned turquoise pools, Jacob Cox's Horse cried, and With the factories came the staining of the land, theĪsphyxiation of the children, the endless screaming fires. A restlessness in the waves brought with it the factories that now stand at Seaton.
He was sat peacefully amongst his cows, looking over the Gaynor's note said, "A cowherd living on the Wide Open told me of a dream he had. Harpsichord continued and, when I wrote to tell Gaynor I had been playing on a harpsichord at college, she responded with a piece she wrote While there, my fascination with the Kirkleatham While Gaynor stayed in Seaton Snook, I moved to Manchester to study the piano. Instruments were tuned in different ways, so that some keys sounded beautiful, and others sounded more mysterious, or even evil. Later our music teacher taught us how these old At the time, we found it funny that it sounded so out of tune. I remember it had the most intriguing underside of the lid - an ancient city, whose inhabitants had long since disappeared. We were both very taken by the box harpsichord there. Gaynor and I visited Kirkleatham Manor on a school trip from Henry Smith's School.
Accompanying it was a letter from a schoolfriend of Leigh's, Jane Hopper, who died in Christchurch, New Zealand, in the late 1960s. This piece was discovered amongst papers at Kirkleatham Manor in North Yorkshire.
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