Maryleb o ne Elegy

a homage to Elgar in memory of Richard Hand

for solo guitar

Step hen Goss

commissioned by the International Guitar Foundation (IGF)

for the first London International Guitar Competition, March 2012

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Programme note

When I was asked to write a piece for the inaugural London International Guitar
Competition in 2012, I immediately thought of writing about London itself. Not a
modern cityscape, more something that might evoke the London of the past –
nostalgic, but tinged with melancholy.

Around the corner from King’s Place, where the final stages of the competition were
scheduled to take place, is St Pancras Station and the recently renovated St Pancras
Renaissance Hotel – a building Thomas Beecham once compared to Elgar’s First
Symphony. I had just completed a new guitar concerto for Graham Roberts and the
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the middle movement of which was a homage to Elgar,
so musical material from the concerto became the starting point for Marylebone Elegy.
None of Elgar’s music is quoted, but I allude to his musical language.

In March 2011 the guitarist Richard Hand died suddenly, he was a cornerstone of the
London guitar scene and I had been looking for an suitable opportunity to write a
piece in his memory. He lived in Marylebone all of his adult life.

Marylebone Elegy was commissioned by the International Guitar Foundation (IGF)

for the inaugural London International Guitar Competition. The first performances
were given by the six semi-finalists and, subsequently, the three finalists at King’s
Place, London, on 9th and 10th March 2012.

Performance notes

Marylebone Elegy is a study in legato playing and long-term phrasing. Left hand
fingers should be kept held down for as long as possible to maintain a full-sounding
resonance throughout. I have included a great deal of fingering. This is not intended
to be obligatory, but it gives an idea of the sort of sostenuto texture that I imagined.
Dynamics are put in as suggestions: performers are free to come up with their own.
The tempo can be very flexible.

I have put much of the piece on two staves so that musical lines are clearer. All natural
harmonics are notated as diamond note-heads at sounding pitch and can be found at
frets 7, 12 or 19. Accidentals last for the duration of the bar but only in the octave
specified.

The piece is around 6 minutes long.

© Stephen Goss, February 2012

www.stephengoss.net
 Marylebone Elegy
a homage to Elgar in memory of Richard Hand
commissioned by the International Guitar Foundation (IGF)
for the first London International Guitar Competition

Stephen Goss (2012)

Adagio Sostenuto q = 72

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3
4
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CII VII
I
  
1 3 I r.h. 4 VI
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2
27
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4

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3

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0 2 1 0 1 4 1 0 4 4 1 0 2 2

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1

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0 3



4

 
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
1

 2 2
3 1

      

VIII

V

VII

  
32
     
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4

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    
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37
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0

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    
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  
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      
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VI
42
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        
VII
        

2 3 4

     
2

   
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  
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    

3 1
xii
r.h. r.h.

        
4

 
     

4 4

   
4

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4
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sempre campanella

   
VII
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3

   
3 4

       
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      
4

  
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4
VII 4
53 1 4 1


2 3 4 3 1 2 3


1 3 0 1 0 4 0 3 4 0 2 3 1 0 1 2


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     
XI 3 VI
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
4

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4

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 dark3 3 
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          
I dolce
       
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3 dolce

        
  
3
  
    pp       pp
p p


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       

           
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4

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4 3

   
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4
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4
1 4

  
3 1 0 3 2 0 0 1 3 3 0 2 1 3 2 2
0

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  
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IV
    
4

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4 4
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  
3

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p
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4 3 1

  
3

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0

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 
IX

VII
  
VI
  
4
73 4

 
2 4 4

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0 0


3 2

       
1 0 1 1 1 2

     
   
    3 3
2
4 3

                 
77 VI 4

   

2 4 3 2 4

    
0

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mf
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82
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          
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0
 1 3

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3 4

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4

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2 0 1 2 3

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

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    
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           
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 
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      
  
97

           
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2 3

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2 4 4 4 1 4 3 0 1 4 2

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1 0



1
1

mf p
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 

 
      2

2

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XI
          
  
4 2


4
102
      
3

  
2

  
4 4 1


0 2 0 1 3 3 0 3




rit slower tempo
 r.h.

  
  
     
4 4 4


4 4
106 3 3 3 1

 
1 1 3 3

 
2 2 2 2 2 1

   
2

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p pp

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