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Author Davies, Peter Maxwell, 1934-2016.

Title The yellow cake revue : comments in words and music on the threat of uranium mining in Orkney : for voice and piano / Peter Maxwell Davies ; text by the composer.

Imprint London ; New York : Boosey & Hawkes, 1984, c1980.

Item Status

Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Talbott: Circulating Collection  M1621.4 .D385 Y4    Available  ---
Description 1 vocal score (36 pages) ; 32 cm
Playing Time 002500
Description score part
Note Cabaret-style songs with piano accompaniment, recitations, and piano interludes. "The voice may be a man's or woman's. The songs are tonal and may be transposed to suit different voices."
Duration: 25:00.
Composer's note preceding page [1]
Contents Tourist Board song (O come to sunny Wharbeth) -- Patriotic song (You've heard of the man with the pacemaker) -- Piano interlude (Farewell to Stromness) -- Recitation: Nuclear job interview 1 (The security guard) -- Uranium's daughters' dance (They said, when they'd extracted the uranium from the ore) -- Recitation: Nuclear job interview 2 (The truck driver) -- Atlantic breezes -- Recitation: Nuclear job interview 3 (The mental health worker) -- Piano interlude (Yesnaby ground) -- The terrorist song (Have you heard of the terrorist suicide squad?) -- Triumph of the cockroach (As earthquakes subsided)
Note Publisher's no.: B. &. H. 20690.
Subject Revues -- Vocal scores with piano.
Revues -- Vocal scores with piano.
Songs (Medium voice) with piano.
Songs (Medium voice) with piano.
Genre/Form Song cycles.
Song cycles.
Vocal scores.
Vocal scores.
Added Title Yellow cake revue
ISBN $13.50
Music No. B. &. H. 20690 Boosey & Hawkes

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