Opus 865
In the Night Garden (2010)
for Marimba
Jonathan Hess, marimba
Duration: 3.5 min.
Dedication: for Peter Jarvis
Commission: Commissioned by Richard Mason
Recorded on Mountains Like These: Percussion Solos by Carson Cooman (2016)Publisher: Musik Fabrik
Performance materials available from the publisher.
In the Night Garden (2010), virelai for solo marimba, was commissioned by Richard Mason and written for and dedicated to percussionist Peter Jarvis.
Virelai (noun, Old French):
1. an old French form of short poem, composed of short lines running on two rhymes and having two opening lines recurring at intervals.
2. any of various similar or other forms of poem, as one consisting of stanzas made up of longer and shorter lines, the lines of each kind rhyming together in each stanza, and having the rhyme of the shorter lines of one stanza forming the rhyme of the longer lines of the next stanza.
3. a medieval song form providing a musical setting for a virelai but having a formal structure different from that of the poem.