Swansea Town Variations on a Hampshire Folksong 雅各布 木管五重奏 变奏曲民谣

《斯旺西镇》（汉普郡民歌变奏曲）创作于 1973 年，是为当年 5 月贝辛斯托克玛丽女王学院的开学音乐会而作。音乐会由这所新学院的学生表演，献词人特伦斯-吉尔摩-詹姆斯（Terence Gilmore-James）是该学院的音乐系主任。戈登-雅各布于 1895 年出生在伦敦南部的上诺伍德，他是第十个孩子，也是第七个儿子。他在杜威奇学院（Dulwich College）接受教育，该校是一所非同寻常的音乐学校，他在那里创作了自己的第一首管弦乐曲。第一次世界大战期间，他在阿拉斯附近被德军俘虏，在俘虏营里组织了一个小型管弦乐队，全部曲目都由他编曲或作曲。这种早期的实用音乐方法一直是他的标志，他的音乐总是非常 "可演奏"。战后，他决定不再从事新闻工作，而是进入皇家音乐学院，师从斯坦福、豪韦尔斯和沃恩-威廉姆斯学习作曲，师从布尔特学习指挥，师从塔尔本学习钢琴。

作曲家: Jacob Gordon
乐器: flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon and horn
出版社: Emerson Edition
原文简介:
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.