"The Padstow Lifeboat" op.94 (1967)

The premier of The Padstow Lifeboat took place how long before the Padstow dedication performance?

1 year before

What two brass bands did Arnold combine?

The Black Dyke Mills Band and the British Motor Corporation Band

Where did the Black Dyke Mills Band and BMC band play?

The BBC International Festival of Light Music

When was the BBC International Festival of Light Music?

June 10 1967

When did Arnold conduct the piece again?

July 19 1968 at the Padstow inaugural ceremony

Who was the ensemble for the Padstow inaugural ceremony?

The St. Dennis Silver Band

What was Padstow lifeboat initially scored for?

Brass band

Padstow Lifeboat has been arranged for what types of bands?

Concert Band and orchestra

What structure do all scores of Padstow Lifeboat use?

Multithematic form

What is multithematic form common in?

Marches and ragtime

Multithematic is simply labeled what?

March form

What does march form use?

Multiple melodies

What do band musicians call multiple melodies?

Strains

What is customary of each strain?

For it to be repeated

What changes during the repetition of strains?

Differen instrumentation or a countermelody

When does Arnold create a countermelody?

In the B strain

What instruments play the countermelody in the B strain?

The high woodwinds

What are break strains?

Later strains that are loud and aggressive

What do break strains employ?

Call and response alternations

What is a nickname for a break strain?

A dogfight

Which of Arnolds melodies could be called a break strain?

Arnolds C melody

What quality does Arnold convey in his C melody?

A stormy quality

What is common for the end of a marching piece?

Repeating a strain louder and more slowly near the end of the piece

The louder and slower strain at the end of the piece is often labeled with what?

Grandioso

How does Arnold include the grandioso?

As the code to his march

What is the grandioso made up of?

The third appearance of the B melody

What is a Stinger?

The full ensemble plays a loud staccato note or chord at the very end

What is the end of the padstow lifeboat?

The stinger

What does the majority of the band play in the beginning?

A brisk syncopated opening rhythm

What is the brisk syncopated opening rhythm interrupted by?

A fortissimo blast from the horns and several other instruments

What is the pitch of the fortissimo blast from the horns?

D

What is the march’s tonic key?

Ab major

What is special about the D natural that is played from the fortissimo blasts from the horns?

It does not belong to the Ab major tonic key

When the band re-enters after the fortissimo black what has changed?

Its brisk melody is a step lower

How did Arnold turn The Padstow Lifeboat into a programmatic work?

With the unexpected juxtaposition of melody and blasts

What do the fortissimo interruptions represent?

The sound of the Trevose Head lighthouse’s foghorn

What was characteristic of the foghorn?

It did not always produce exactly the same pitch

Where did the pitch of the Trevose Head lighthouses foghorn wander between?

Middle C and D

What pitch does the foghorn remain in throughout the march?

D

Why does the foghorn remain in D?

For the sake of musical unity

What does the march’s break strain portray?

A turbulent sea

What resembles churning waves in the break strain?

Rapid chromatic scales and glissandos

What adds to a terrifying effect during the break strain?

Cymbals playing long crescendos

What do biographers believe Arnold was depicting during the break strain?

An actual dramatic rescue that the Padstow lifeboat had performed duirng a severe storm November 23 1965

What is the leader of the lifeboat called?

Coxswain

For the rescue on November 23rd 1965 what was the coxswain awarded?

A silver medal