The Watermill
The Watermill is a piece of music that was published by Ronald Binge in 1958.[1] Elements from it had been used in the score of the British comedy film Our Girl Friday, released in 1953, and it was later used as the theme music for a BBC television adaptation of The Secret Garden.[2]
The Watermill was originally written for the oboe and a string orchestra but may be played on other instruments such as the clarinet.[3] It has placed high in polls of the British public, such as those organised for the programme, Your Hundred Best Tunes.[4]
In popular culture
[edit]- Was used as the theme music to the Anglia TV series The Wind In The Willows (1969).
- Is heard as the theme and background music throughout the ABC Radio comedy series Brunswick Heads Revisited by Angela Webber and Adam Bowen (Australian Broadcasting Commission,1982).
References
[edit]- ^ Hyperion Records. Accessed 23 April 2014
- ^ Geoffrey Self (2001), Light music in Britain since 1870, ISBN 9781859283370
- ^ "The Tarogato in Great Britain", Clarinet and Saxophone, 31, 2006
- ^ John Sant (2000), Albert W. Ketèlbey (1875-1959), ISBN 9780953805808
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