StylisticVariations on ?Smoke on the Water?, Words and Music byBlackmore, Gillan, Glover and Lord and Paice arranged here for ClarinetQuartet. Both the performers and audience will find this advanced intermediateto advanced arrangement with its theme and three variations humorouslyappealing? To view and listento this piece in its entirety as well as hundreds of other arrangements andtranscriptions by Kenneth Abeling at the lowest prices available please visit www.lincolnmusicpublications.com. Playing Time: 4:07 Preview this score on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgYOv40w7DY

Gabriel Pierne's Opus 30, Pastoral Variations in the Old Style was written in 1894 for piano and he later set the piece for six winds. There are seven brief movements, all in a different style borrowing from older styles (Style Ancien). This is a setting of the piece for clarinet quartet by John Gibson and includes both the score and parts. (3 Bb Clarinets and 1 Bass Clarinet) The music is not too difficult and could be handled by good intermediate players, depending on the tempos taken by the group.

This is one from a collection of 7 gospel songs from the late 18th, 19th and early 20th Century, in their original versions, as arranged for clarinet quartet. The arrangements differ from the choral originals for instrumental purposes in that: some repeated notes in the lower instruments are merged into single long notes various notes are slurred or made into staccatos and fermatas (pauses) are recreated as extended notes and bars, where it makes musical sense to do so. These arrangements are also available as a bundle of 7 (7 Songs of Glory ) for $25 and also separately, at $4.00 each: The Glory Song (C H Gabriel) I Need Thee Every Hour (Robert Lowry) Count your Blessings (E O Excell) Just As I Am (W Bradbury) O for a thousand tongues to sing (Charles Wesley) (Hymn tune known as Lyngham) Tell me the old old story (W H Doane) Trust and obey (D B Towner) In each case the pdfs contain score and parts and the sound samples are electronic previews. I plan to create extended versions, with my own variations, in due course, but these versions are basically transcriptions of the originals.