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David Fennessy
THE RIOT ACT, for tenor and large orchestra
UE38273
Type: Studienpartitur (Sonderanfertigung)
Languages: Englisch (Großbritannien)
Format: 232 x 305 mm
Pages: 28
Description
The Riot Act (1714) was a proclamation which was historically read out by a sheriff or law enforcement official in the event of a riot, and was famously implemented in Glasgow in the ‘Battle of George Square’ in 1919, as well as the Peterloo Massacre in Manchester in 1819. The act granted special powers to the authorities to disperse the assembled crowds and enforce punishments including the death sentence.
This short, declamatory setting is intended as a warning of sorts ? a noisy rebuke to the seemingly inexorable tide of populism sweeping the West and the abuses of power that seem to inevitably follow in its wake.
“Our Sovereign Lord the King chargeth
and commandeth all persons, being assembled, immediately to disperse themselves, and
peaceably depart to their habitations, or to
their lawful business, upon the pains contained
in the Act made in the first year of King
George the First for preventing tumults and
riotous assemblies.”
GOD SAVE THE KING.
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Type: Studienpartitur (Sonderanfertigung)
Languages: Englisch (Großbritannien)
Format: 232 x 305 mm
Pages: 28