Peace March 3 (1984)
(Friedensmarsch)

These Peace Marches are part of a series in progress, begun when we lived in England in 1983-84 and various family members took part in the anti-nuclear demonstrations at that time and dedicated in solidarity to the anti-war movement in its various aspects, as it stands against nuclear weapons (and energy), imperialist policies, male or patriarchal dominance (whatever the sex of the leaders) and the economic exploitation involved in all of these. 

Peace March 1 draws on the tune "Hey Ho Nobody Home," an old (sixteenth century?) protest song, of poor people and war victims, to which new words were put during the seventies anti-nuclear movement, under the title "Stop Using Uranium." The music moves more or less freely at first, and then more fluently, over a march beat that need be expressed only occasionally and lightly. 

Peace March 2 is a kind of gradually evolving rhythmic passacaglia, an extended additive process in four phases, each of which is repeated (rhythmically) three times, the pitches in each phase providing by transpositions pitch material for a subsequent phrase. Among other things I had children in mind when writing it. 

Peace March 3 draws on an early anti-nuclear song by Ian Campbell, "The Sun is Burning."