Suite on English folk tunes
Subtitle: A time there was ... : for orchestra, op. 90
By: Benjamin Britten.
Publisher: Faber Music
Published: 1976
Place of publication: (London)
Number of pages: 57
Subjects: Suites (Orchestra); Folk-songs, English (Instrumental settings)
Other titles: A time there was.
Work titles: Suite on English folk tunes
Notes: Cover title.

Duration: 14 min.

Reproduced from holograph.

"The Suite is founded on tunes published in the seventeenth century in Playford's The dancing master, and some folk songs collected orally at the beginning of this century."
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