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The World Encompassed
Year Composed:
2010
Composer:
Orlando
Gough
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Birth year:
1953
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Number of parts:
6
Viol Scoring:
tr, tr, t, t, b, b
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Difficulty:
Duration (minutes):
70
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Additional Comments:
Francis Drake took 4 viols players with him on his circumnavigation of 1577-80. Gough combines original 16th Century English consort music by Parsons, Taverner, and Tye with his own imagining of the native musics of Africa, South America and Java.
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