Printed score for Paul Corfield Godfrey's Three Romances for Violin and Harp (Op. 40).

A4 Size, 9 Pages.

This work written in 1981 for violin and harp is drawn from sketches made in the 1970s for a then unfinished series of music dramas based on the works of J. R. R. Tolkien. In 2000 an alternative version was prepared for oboe and piano.

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The first movement originated in a setting of the Eagle’s song of victory in The Return of the King

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The second and third movements derive from settings of The Hobbit, and both are drawn from the final act of the opera Fire and Water.  The second movement is a rather free arrangement of an interlude in the final act following the death of Thorin Oakenshield, and takes shape as a lament and funeral march. 

The third movement is a transcription of the closing scene of the opera, with Bilbo’s song Roads go ever on and on followed by the music that accompanies his return to the Shire and a peaceful conclusion.