Subtle echoes and flowing rhythms brought to life with the SpiderCapo.
Difficulty: Advanced (Grade 8+)
Technical Note: Requires a SpiderCapo or a prepared capo (instructions included).
Purchase: The score is available as an ebook via Lulu Publishing.
Price: US$13.00 (approx. NZ$21.70)
About
This striking and innovative work for solo guitar will challenge even advanced players while rewarding them with unique textures and sonorities. Inspired by the English folk song A Rosebud in June, it evokes rustic celebrations, seasonal dances, and the joy of music shared outdoors. The piece calls for the use of a SpiderCapo, an ingenious device that enables harmonies and resonances not possible with a standard capo.
Recordings
- Featured on NAXOS (regularly broadcast by RNZ Concert)
- NAXOS "Dream Weaving" (Cat. No: 8573765)
- On Bruce Paine's album The Selwyn Recital
- YouTube performance by Bruce Paine
Footnote:
The piece was inspired by verses from the traditional English folksong “A Rosebud in June.”
It’s a rosebud in June and the violets in full bloom
And the small birds singing love songs on each spray.
We’ll pipe and we’ll sing love
We’ll dance in a ring love
When each lad takes his lass
All on the green grass,
And it’s, oh, to plough where the fat oxen graze low
And the lads and the lasses do sheep shearing go.