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Harrison Birtwistle's lyrics & chords

Harrison Birtwistle is one of the world's foremost living composers. Born Accrington, 1934, he studied Clarinet and Composition at the Royal Manchester College of Music from 1953 where, along with fellow students Peter Maxwell Davies, Alexander Goehr, John Ogdon and Elgar Howarth, he formed the New Music Manchester group which was dedicated to performing avant-garde and contemporary compositions. While using mostly conventional instrumental resources, Birtwistle has radically altered the fundmentals of compositional practice, preferring con...read more

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carmen arcadiae mechanicae perpetuum

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the ring dance of the nazarene

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lullaby

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five distances for five instruments

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antiphonies for piano and orchestra

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carmen arcadia

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imaginary landscape

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antiphonies

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on the sheer threshold of the night

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first poem of reminiscence

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recitative and passion aria ii

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first structure of decision

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first song of failure

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white and light

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the story begins

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first allegorical flower of reason

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third sentence of teaching

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third terrible death

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verses

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always north of him

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i was the solitary plover

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third dream

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third spoken argument

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variationen

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refrains and choruses for wind quintet

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the green knight rides off

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wie eine fuge

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third hysterical aria

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coda

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mystery of the open door

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thread suns fadensonnen

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my friend tree

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the woman and the hare

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another riddle

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the third hunt and temptation

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movement for string quartet

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with letter and clock mit brief und uhr

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how the white gulls

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gigue machine

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entrance of the green knight

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the severed head instructs gawain

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gawain faces death

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interview

Prophesies and threats Hear where her snowgrave is O late fall My life Dance aria The green chapel Orpheus elegies The first lullaby Castle de hautdesert Night nacht This silence before light Violin concerto Untitled Ring a dumb carillon

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