i. Promenade
‘You cannot think of art, but only of life itself, as if this were the very life of the Etruscans dancing in their coloured wraps with massive yet exuberant limbs, ruddy from the air, and the sea light, dancing and fluting along through the little olive trees out in the fresh day.’
ii. Meditation
‘There is a queer stillness and a curious peaceful repose about the Etruscan places’
iii. Scherzo
‘ There seems to have been in the Etruscan instinct a real desire to preserve the natural humour of life. And that is a task surely more worthy, and even more difficult than conquering the world.’
For piano and chamber orchestra / A response to David Herbert Lawrence’s Etruscan places, 1932 / Score: VSL (inscribed ‘13.7.54. N.Y.C.’) / Score and parts: ABC FML (woodwind parts missing?) / Score and parts available on hire from Peters, Australian agent: Allans Publishing / Also published in a piano reduction (Peters, 1955)