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Sweet Thames

from Water Music by Peter Nagle

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At Greenwich where I made the recordings, the Thames is tidal. recorded on several days in September and October 2014 at high and low tide, down on the "beach" that appears at low tide when it was accessible. Greenwich was an important royal and military location from Tudor times: its long maritime associations and service as a naval base resonate with the idea of the "barbecana" as a defence stronghold. The Thames is also a conduit, whose flow is the pulse that drives the life of the city. It's also a barrier: we ally ourselves to the tribes of North and South of its course.

"Sweet Thames" is a phrase that recurs many times in music and poetry: Edmund Spenser's refrain "Sweet Thames, run softly till I end my song" in Prothalamion was quoted by T.S. Elliott in The Wasteland. A variant appears in Peter Maxwell Davies' Eight Songs for a Mad King, and Ewan MacColl's song Sweet Thames, Flow Softly.

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from Water Music, released November 23, 2014
Written, performed and recorded by Peter Nagle

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Peter Nagle is a composer and cellist living in London, UK.

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