Chasing Sheep Is Best Left to Shepherds

Chasing Sheep is Best Left to Shepherds is a piece of minimalist music from the soundtrack for The Draughtsman's Contract, written by Michael Nyman. In the forty years since its release it has been much quoted and sampled and performed by various ensembles. The main motif of first and third part is based on the Prelude to Act III, Scene 2 of Henry Purcell’s opera, King Arthur, the motif of the middle part is based on the aria Madamina, il catalogo è questo from Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera, Don Giovanni.

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