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Playing the Skyline Series 2, Belfast Docks Playing The Skyline

Belfast Docks

  • Hills lost in the cloud
  • Square structures and strong verticals
  • Squares, triangles (Titanic Studios)... and the hills
  • Harland & Woolf gantry, cranes and schoolboy
  • Composing in the Rain
  • Brian's sketch - cranes, buildings and cranes becoming music
  • Rachael's sketch - the hills as a melody line
  • Brian's sketch - the busy skyline as musical images

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  • Playing the Skyline—Series 2, Belfast Docks

    3/3 Composer laureate Brian Irvine and Rachael Boyd, on fiddle, play the skyline of Belfast.

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