Danceries (Set II) (wind band score and parts): Score & Parts (Faber Wind Band) - Softcover

Name: Danceries (Set II) (wind band score and parts): Score & Parts (Faber Wind Band)
Author: Kenneth Hesketh
ISBN: 9780571570485

Kenneth Hesketh

9780571570485: Danceries (Set II) (wind band score and parts): Score & Parts (Faber Wind Band)

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ISBN 10: 0571570488 ISBN 13: 9780571570485

Publisher: Faber Music, 2011

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This second set of Danceries continues the format established in Danceries (Set I), namely in using material taken from Playford's Dancing Master, a collection of folk and popular tunes published in the seventeenth century, to form the basis of an extended dance suite. In this set, the melodies have been more abstracted and project only a distant echo of their original forms, but as before, each movement is self-contained, colourful and direct, with its own distinct mood. The outer movements "Jennie's Bawbee" and "Peascod's Galliarda" share a use of driving percussion writing with a military air. "Tom Tinker's Toye" and "Heart's Ease" (movements two and three) are both settings of original melodies. All movements are more extended than in the first set, with a freer use and approach to the material. The result is a richer, even more exhilarating set of dances. Danceries has come of age!

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