Folk-song and the life of the countryside—these are the dominant influences in the music of George Butterworth , who had composed but a slender store of works when, at the age of thirty-one, he was killed in the War. His Idyll, ' The Banks of Green Willow', first performed in 1913, is scored for a small orchestra of woodwind, horns, trombone, harp, and strings. It is built upon two folk tunes. The first, that which gives the work its title, is heard on the clarinet-a gentle ambling melody that is worked up by the strings. ' Green Bushes ', the other tune (in the minor key), is given out by the oboe.