At 20 minutes, this is a substantial score, but without the organ, it would seem very slender.
And if it isn't as immediately engaging as "2 for 5," the Piano Quintet is in some ways a more substantial score.
Hussey opened the home reply to Middlesex's substantial score with Adrian Rollins, whistled up after making 84 in a second XI match against Lancashire because the prolific Mal Loye has fallen victim to a dodgy beefburger.
It was telling that the one statistical category it did lead was collective, not individual: The number of innings of 50 runs or more — a substantial score in Twenty20 — played by team members.
Four further commissions have followed, all substantial scores; among them is the Piano Concerto that Wood completed in 1991 for his former pupil Joanna MacGregor, and that was the one that the BBC chose to revive to mark Wood's 80th birthday this year.
There are two reasons: lack of substantial scores at the top of the order and the inability of the middle/lower order to calmly, but effectively, maintain the required rate.
Later in the day, the tension when Alastair Cook was batting was almost unbearable, with the crowd on the edge of their seats willing him to make a substantial score.
This is an important innings for him to try to ensure he is the first cab off the rank for the Ashes against Australia - and he can come back tomorrow morning and look to build a substantial score.
They are 2-0 up and running away with it despite four of their most reliable batsman being yet to make a substantial score between them, Captain Alastair Cook has a series aggregate of 83, Kevin Pietersen 85. Jonathan Trott is averaging just 26, Matt Prior, their player of the year, a mere 13.
Batting aggressively, he made several substantial scores but only once passed fifty— in the third Test, he scored 58, his first Test half century.
