Clive Strutt

This work has developed through several versions and reworkings to find its final form for a quartet of oboists.

The first movement is based upon a tune collected in West Adderbury, Oxfordshire, in the early 1900's, entitled "The Cutty Wren". It is a fast moving piece in six-eight time. Following this is a relaxation into a meditative mood in the Fantasy on "Bruton Town" and "Edward"; the provenance of the latter is unacknowledged in the published source "Where is St. George" by Bob Stewart, but the former was collected in Somerset by that great English folk-song researcher, Cecil Sharp.

The third movement, which, in one of my earlier workings consisted only of restatements of the song-tune "Six Dukes went a-Fishing", now treats this as a prelude to the fugue which follows it on the same theme. "Six Dukes went a-Fishing", was collected by the great twentieth century composer Percy Grainger in 1906 from George Gouldthorpe of Brigg, Lincolnshire, and published in "The Penguin Book of English Folk Songs" edited by R. Vaughan Williams and A. L. Lloyd.

Clive Strutt
1999

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