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Y Deryn Du (The Blackbird)

David Matthews

Commission made possible by Elizabeth Salmon

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Piece length: 2'
Scored for: Piano, Violin, Viola (or Violin 2), Cello
Publisher: Fabers

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The Blackbird , for piano quartet, was written in 1998, and is based on the Welsh folksong Y deryn du. In the song the blackbird gives advice to a young man in search of a wife. After rejecting the first three of the bird's suggestions, he willingly accepts the fourth, the bailiff's daughter. So in this instrumental setting the tune appears, appropriately, four times: on the viola, then the cello, then the violin and piano in canon.

David Matthews

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