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Mai-Dun
''Mai-Dun'' is an orchestral work composed in 1921 by John Ireland (18791962). He called it a symphonic rhapsody; another description might be tone poem. In 1931, he arranged it for piano four hands.
In British Celtic, "Mai-dun" means "great hill". Ireland's piece is a musical evocation of a notable iron age fort: Maiden Castle, Dorset, near by the house of the English novelist and poet Thomas Hardy (18401928); whose name for the place Ireland adopted.〔
It has been said that, "ancient sites with echoes of the supernatural, including the Channel Islands, inform some of Ireland’s few orchestral pieces"; and of ''Mai-Dun'' itself that, "it is a strong piece, aggressive at times, resourcefully scored, and Ireland’s imagination was ignited by the largest hill-fort in England, dating from 3000BC, and its violent history."〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=John Ireland )〕
A typical performance takes about 12½ minutes.
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