Music from Chaucer
- Author / Editor
- Berkeley, Michael, comp.
Music from Chaucer
- Published
- New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.
- Physical Description
- Musical score; 24 pp. 6 parts. 12 minutes.
- Series
- Oxford Music for Brass Quintet.
- Description
- Commissioned in 1983 by the BBC "as incidental music for a series of radio programmes to texts by Chaucer." Includes parts for instruments (two trumpets, one horn, one tenor trombone, one tuba, and "Optional Percussion"), with scoring for five pieces: "Triton's Trumpets," "The Grieving Queen," "A Fanfare for the Huntsmen," "The Sorrowful Knight," and "The Wakeful Poet."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
- Recordings and Films