Cuttings from a Nonsense Book (John Kilpatrick)

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(Posted 2006-07-26) CPDL #12094: PDF & MIDI files

Editor: John Kilpatrick (submitted 2006-07-26). Score information: A4, 54 pages, 591 kB Copyright: Public Domain

Edition notes: New edition November 2014: A few minor tweaks to the music, Two new sections added making 13 in total, Re-paged and bar-numbered. Scores available: Full Score (in concert pitch) 54 pages; Vocal Score (with piano reduction) 40 pages; Parts for wind quintet in one each 12 pages, enclosed in one PDF. Also available is a User Guide (i.e. programme notes)

General Information

Title: Cuttings from a Nonsense Book
Composer: John Kilpatrick
Lyricist: Gelett Burgess^{create page}

Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Cantata

Language: English
Instruments: Wind Quintet (flute, oboe, clarinet, horn, bassoon) with choir and speaker (narrator). Alternatively with piano reduction.

First published: 2005
2nd published: 2014 – extended
Description: A 30-minute work comprising 12 numbers written to words from The Burgess Nonsense Book (Gelett Burgess, 1901) and one short section for instruments only. Designed for performance as a whole, but with the possibility of omitting sections. The Purple Cow could be performed as a mini-suite on its own.

Sections in this work

1. Introduction – Frontispiece and Epigram

2. Digital Extremities

3. Cranial Ambulation

4. City Flora

5. My Fancies

6. Fugue in 24 keys – instrumental

7a. The Minutes

7b. The Museum of Kisses

8. The Floorless Room

9. The Window

10. The Towel and the Door – (and vice-versa)

11. The Purple Cow

11a. The Purple Cow

11b. The Purpil Cowe

11c. Confession

12. Finis

13. Exit – encore

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