Item Number: H0.488441-SC001419915

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Skating from Vince Guaraldi's music for A Charlie Brown Christmas - set for flute quartet. Charlie Brown ice skates a lot like I do. Moments of gracefulness mixed with comical disasters. Guaraldi's music reflects that: measures of floating-on-air right along with times of clashing skates. It is set by John Gibson for 3 flutes and 1 alto flute (with an alternate 4th flute part).

How to Train Your Dragon is a 2010 American computer-animated action fantasy film produced by DreamWorks Animation and distributed by Paramount Pictures. John Powell composed an orchestral score, combining bombastic brass with loud percussion and soothing strings, while also using exotic Scottish and Irish tones with instruments like the penny whistle and bagpipes.

This arrangement for flute quartet includes the following parts: Flute 1, Flute 2, Flute 3, Flute 4 or Alto Flute.
It is suitable for classroom, repertoire and recital.

Dvorak's Prague Waltzes (1889) set for Flute Quartet. This 7 minute long piece is a set of 5 waltzes and a final coda that features Viennese style waltzes with a definite Czech flavoring. These are melodies you and your audience will whistle on the way home! It is set by John Gibson for 4 flutes.

Gustav Holst - Folksongs of Hampshire England . In the early 1900's there was great interest in collecting and preserving the folk songs of England, Scotland, and Ireland. Equipped with their newly invented recording devices, people such as Cecil Sharp, Charles Stanford, Ralph Vaughan Williams, and Gustav Holst would travel into the country-side to record, or notate songs being sung. They would frequently use these songs in their own compositions. Holst's music in particular is filled with those songs and his two suites for band are especially valued by wind bands around the world. This group of four songs was arranged for voice and piano by Holst and set for flute quartet by John Gibson. The songs are 1. Young Edwin in the Lowlands Low 2. Bedlam City 3. The Irish Girl 4. Young Reilly. The instrumentation is: Flute 1 - 3, and alto with an alternate 4th flute for the alto.

Amy Marcy Beach (1867 - 1944) was a pioneering woman composer at a time when women were barely considered by music publishers. She has been acclaimed to be the first important American woman composer. As a child Amy was allowed rather than encouraged to further her obvious musical talent. She wrote in a mature and virtuosic style for piano with use of chromaticism, fine melodic lines, and Impressionistic styles. This is her "Fire-Flies" set for flute quartet by John Gibson. (3 flutes and alto flute with an alternate 4th flute part for alto). This piece is also a part of a group of pieces called Buggy Delights also available on Sheet Music Press.

Nino Rota's Suite from the movie "Romeo and Juliet" set for Flute Quartet. This suite of songs from the 1968 film includes Romeo, Juliet, The Feast At The House Of Capulet; Did My Heart Love 'til Now, and the famous Love Theme. These are set for flute quartet by John Gibson (flute 1-3 and alto flute - with an alternate 4th flute part instead of the alto). The piece runs about 6 3/4 minutes. This arrangement of the suite is by permission of Sheet Music Press Copyrighted Songs program. The audio sample is of the Love Theme and found on page 5 of the score.