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Bennett: Water Music
Composer: Robert Russell Bennett
Publisher: Maurice River Press
Instrument: Mixed
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Bennett: Water Music
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Robert Bennett (composer)
Instrumentation
- Violin 1
- Violin 2
- Viola
- Violoncello
Score and Parts
A 1937 string quartet by a composer perhaps better known as arranger/orchestrator of some 300 Broadway and London productions, Water Music uses the folk tune Sailors' Hornpipe as a starting point. But, as the publisher points out, it "soon becomes a witty compendium of modernist techniques, though omitting 12-tone. Not very far into the piece, for example, Bennett puts each player in a different key. He fragments and reassembles the tune to dramatic effect well beyond what one would expect from an essentially trivial folk melody."