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(no. 696), from which HC borrowed the Tune for movement | ||
| 4 | of the symphony. (c) On the versos of both pages of AP XVII (no. 690) are a total of 50m of sketches for movements 1, 3, and 4 of the symphony. | |
| P | Miniature full score, paged as above, copyright 1948, AMP. Materials on rental from AMP. | |
| C | In an article on HC, Modern Music 23:4 (Fall 1946), p[254]-60, Edwin Gerschefski cites a work in progress, "an eighteen-minute work in four parts" entitled Hymn, Air, Dance, and Fuguing Tune. He cites it apart from and in addition to the Fourth Symphony, but it is hard to see what else it could have been. | |
| 698 | March in Three Beats [for voice(s) and piano] Not too fast | |
| D | This march was commissioned for volume 6 of the American Book Company's American Singer series by the chief editor of the series, John W. Beattie; his letter of acknowledgement of receipt is dated 11 Oct 1946. | |
| T | Words put to HC's tune by Dr. Beattie | |
| M | Ink fair copy (3p) among the Beattie papers. Music Library, North- western University | |
| P | In The American Singer (New York: American Book Co., 1946), VI, pl78-79 of the students' book, pl60-62 of the teachers' "Guide and Accompaniments" | |
| C | Here is another example of the "Irish Walking Song" (see Exultation, no. 328) in the "triple meter" that HC claimed alternates the march- er's feet on the strong beats and thus tires him less than ordinary du- ple march meter. That theory might work with triple meter as slow as the Pilgrims' Chorus in Tannhauser; but if this song, for instance, is taken slowly enough to allow alternating feet on strong beats then musically it does not make sense, yet if it is sung up to a musically suitable tempo then all we have is a 6/8 march, left-right, left-right. And who can say that putting a foot down on a strong beat tires it any more than a weak beat? Any marcher knows that an irregular cadence is more tiring than a regular, swinging, consistent one. If the Irish were three-legged, of course, then it would make a difference. | |
| 699 | The Universal Flute [for shakuhachi] Oct. 12, 1946 Tempo rubato, with slow dignity | |
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