Swansea Town Variations on a Hampshire Folksong 雅各 木管五重奏 變奏曲民謠

《斯旺西鎮》（漢普郡民歌變奏曲）創作於 1973 年，是為當年 5 月貝辛斯托克瑪麗女王學院的開學音樂會而作。音樂會由這所新學院的學生表演，獻詞人特倫斯-吉爾摩-詹姆斯（Terence Gilmore-James）是該學院的音樂系主任。戈登-雅各於 1895 年出生在倫敦南部的上諾伍德，他是第十個孩子，也是第七個兒子。他在杜威奇學院（Dulwich College）接受教育，該校是一所非同尋常的音樂學校，他在那裡創作了自己的第一首管弦樂曲。第一次世界大戰期間，他在阿拉斯附近被德軍俘虜，在俘虜營裡組織了一個小型管弦樂隊，全部曲目都由他編曲或作曲。這種早期的實用音樂方法一直是他的標誌，他的音樂總是非常 "可演奏"。戰後，他決定不再從事新聞工作，而是進入皇家音樂學院，師從斯坦福、豪威爾斯和沃恩-威廉姆斯學習作曲，師從布林特學習指揮，師從塔爾本學習鋼琴。

作曲家: Jacob Gordon
樂器: flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon and horn
出版社: Emerson Edition
原文簡介:
Swansea Town (Variations on a Hampshire Folk Song) was written in 1973 for the Inaugural Concert of Queen Mary's College, Basingstoke in May that year. It was performed by the students of that new college of which Terence Gilmore-James, the dedicatee, was the Head of Music. Gordon Jacob was born in Upper Norwood, South London, in 1895, a tenth child and a seventh son. He was educated at Dulwich College, which was an unusually musical school, and he wrote his first orchestral pieces there. During the First World War he was captured by the Germans near Arras, and in his prison camp organised a small orchestra whose entire repertoire he arranged or composed. This early practical approach to music was to remain a hallmark, and his music is always eminently 'playable'. After the war, having decided against a career in journalism, he entered the Royal College of Music, where he studied composition with Stanford, Howells and Vaughan Williams, conducting with Boult, and piano with Thalben.