The Padstow Lifeboat - Malcom Arnold by Ray Woodfield

What do you call a vessel with 3+ masts?

Ship

What do you call a vessel with 2 or fewer masts?

Boat?

How do U.S. naval trainees distinguish a boat?

It is a noncommissioned waterborne vessel, has limited independent operation, and is not a service craft

How does the British Royal Navy distinguish a boat?

Boat leans in, ship leans out

How far back have longboats been found?

8th millennium BCE

How long have traces of boats existed?

2nd millennium BCE

What song do The Beatles have in reference to ship vessels?

Yellow Submarine

What is the first known lifeboat station?

Formby

Where is the first known lifeboat station located?

Liverpool, England

When was the first known lifeboat station established?

1776

From 1840 to 1916, how many vessels did Formby assist?

174

From 1840 to 1916, how many people did Formby rescue?

196

What are the coastal waters of Formby called?

Merseyside

Who built the first unimmergible/unsinkable boat?

Lionel Lukin

When did Lionel Lukin build the first unsinkable boat?

1785

Where did people believe England’s first lifeboat station was located at?

Bamburgh

What was the average number of ships that were wrecked along the coast of Great Britain in the early 1800s?

1,800

When did influential patrons of England sign a charter for the National Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck?

March 4, 1824

What did the National Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck rename itself?

Royal National Lifeboat Institution

Who was the Royal patron of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution?

King George IV

What was the technological improvement that the Royal National Lifeboat Institution saw in 1854?

Cork-Filled life vests

What was the technological improvement that the Royal National Lifeboat Institution saw in 1890?

Steam-powered boats

What was the technological improvement that the Royal National Lifeboat Institution saw in 1905?

Petrol-fueled boats

What year saw the last time that horses were used to launch lifeboats in England?

1936

When were inflatable boats introduced in the RNLI?

1963

How many people has the RNLI saved over its years?

146,000

How many lifeboat stations does the RNLI currently operate?

238

Where was Padstow’s first known lifeboat?

Hawker’s Cove

Where is Padstow?

North Coast of Cornwall

When was the second lifeboat of Padstow established?

1899

When did the RNLI take over management of the Padstow location?

1856

When did the RNLI close the Padstow lifeboat location?

1962

Why did the RNLI decide to close the Padstow boathouse location?

SIlt kept building up making launches difficult

Where did a new station open for rescues to replace the Padstow one?

Mother Ivey’s Bay at Trevose Head

When did the lifeboat in Mother Ivey’s Bay open?

1967

How long is the slipway for the lifeboat in Mother Ivey’s Bay at Trevose Head?

240 feet

What is the lifeboat’s name that is located in Mother Ivey’s Bay?

James and Catherine Macfarlane

What brass bands were combined to play the premiere of The Padstow Lifeboat?

Black Dyke Mills Band and British Motor Corporation Band

When did the first premiere of The Padstow Lifeboat take place?

June 10, 1967

What festival did the first premiere of The Padstow Lifeboat take place in?

BBC International Festival of Light Music

When did Malcom Arnold conduct the second performance of The Padstow Lifeboat?

July 19, 1968

What band played for the Padstow inaugural ceremony?

St. Dennis Silver Band

What arrangements does The Padstow Lifeboat now have?

Brass Band, Concert Band, Orchestra

What form is The Padstow Lifeboat in?

Multithematic form

What is the “simple” name of the multithematic form?

March form

What arrangement of THe Padstow Lifeboat do we listen to?

Concert Band

What do band musicians usually call the multiple melodies that are used in multithematic form?

Strains

What does Arnold ask the high woodwinds to play during the second time of the B strain?

Countermelody

What is a break-strain?

A type of strain that is loud, aggressive, and employs call and response

What is a break-strain also known as?

Dog-fight

What strain/melody is the break-strain in The Padstow Lifeboat?

C melody

What is grandioso?

Repeating a strain louder and slower near the end of a piece

What is a stinger?

Loud staccato note/chord at the very end of marches

How does The Padstow Lifeboat become different to a typical March?

The syncopated opening rhythm and subsequent ones keep getting interrupted by a FF D natural pitch from the horns

What is the march’s key signature?

A flat major

What do the FF blasts in The Padstow Lifeboat represent?

The Trevose Head lighthouse’s foghorn

What does the march’s break-strain resemble?

Turbulent sea

What do the rapid chromatic scales and glissandos resemble in The Padstow Lifeboat?

Churning waves

What do the cymbals play that is “terrifying”?

Long crescendos

What do Arnold’s biographers believe about what Arnold wanted to depict in The Padstow Lifeboat?

An actual rescue that happened on November 23, 1965

What is a coxswain?

Lifeboat leader