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Symphony No I in Coal Minor (Allegro)

from It All Comes Out In The Wash (album) by Bardonthewire

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Symphony No 1 in Coal Minor is more a symphony than a 'symphonic poem' is a poem because it does have (non-orchestral) musical content as well as words but 'symphony' is really a description of how the material is organised. Or, if you prefer, it's me being arty. Symphony No 1 in Coal Minor achieves to the best of my ability a lifelong ambition to arrange once - and for all - my West country/Welsh valley bildungsroman into the four movements of a classic symphony. The first movement here sets out all the major themes; the adagio has another look at them in a lighter funnier mood and then another look in a poignant and elegiac one; the dance movement shakes them all up in a soufflé' and the final movement digests the whole thing with a broken bottle of something heavy.

The 'orchestra' is guitar, voice and percussion and not even all three together until the last movement.

The tile of the allegro is Lennonist Student.

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from It All Comes Out In The Wash (album), released November 22, 2019
Guitar music written, played, recorded and produced by Les Chappell.
Words and re-production into a symphony by Bardonthewire.

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Performance poetry with a library card (voice & drum, folk ballads, ghazals, sonnets, beat poems, sound poems, raps) much of it happening 'on the street' or jostling to be heard in the tavern. Researched stories of folk heroes and real folk. History for you. Bardic poetry striving (as all arts do) for the condition of music (from punk though rap to to prog). Visionary lit. for your average Blake. ... more

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