A collection of four fun characterful sketches arranged for string quartet. I?ve left the melody mostly in the hands of the first, and all four will benefit from ?playing together? skills, adding character with rubato and being aware of what each player is doing. For this reason, as well as the height to which the first reaches, I've graded it as intermediate. I?ve also added a few bow markings for guidance.

Dvorak's Slavonic Dances are among his most popular and accessible compositions, performed by every level of orchestra worldwide and universally adored by music lovers.

Marc LaChance has arranged the energetic Slavonic Dance, Op. 72, No. 7 for Trombone and Piano. It can be performed by advanced musicians and is about 3 1/2 minutes in length.

The Polovtsian Dances, or Polovetsian Dances form an exotic scene at the end of act 2 of Alexander Borodin's opera Prince Igor. The work remained unfinished when the composer died in 1887, although he had worked on it for more than a decade. A performing version was prepared by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and Alexander Glazunov.

In this arrangement for clarinet quartet (Bb Clarinet 1 or Eb Clarinet, Bb Clarinet 2, Bb Clarinet 3 or Eb Alto Clarinet, Bb Bass Clarinet) we have a selections of the most famous dances: 1) Introduction, 2) Gliding Dance of the Maidens, 3) Wild Dance of the Men, 4) General Dance.

1. F�r Elise by L. vanBeethoven 2. Marriage of Figaro by W.A Mozart 3. Musette in D by J.S Bach 4. Ode to Joy by L. van Beethoven 5. Rondo Alla Turca by W.A Mozart 6. Surprise Symphony by J. Haydn 7. Swan Lake by P.I Ceaikovsky 8. Lullaby by J. Brahms 9. Can Can by J. Offenbach 10. Eine Kleine Nachtmusik by W.A Mozart 11. Gymnopedie No. 1 by E. Satie 12.Gypsy Dance from Carmen by G. Bizet 13. Moonlight Sonata by L. van Beethoven 14.Morning Mood by E. Grieg 15. Anitra's Dance by E. Grieg 16.Hungarian Dance No. 5 by J. Brahms 17. Lascia Ch'io Pianga by G. Haendel 18. Night on Bald Mountain by M. Mussorgsky 19.Scheherezade by N. Rimsky-Korsakov 20.Symphony No. 5 by L. van Beethoven 21.The Swan by C. Saint-Sa�ns

ISBN 9781513459547. 8.75x11.75 inches.

This book of 53 intermediate-level guitar pieces is derived from Le Secret des Muses, a two-volume collection of lute tablature by Nicolas Vallet (c. 1583 c. 1642). Born in France, by 1614 Vallet had relocated to Amsterdam where he established a dance school and was active as a composer, lute teacher and leader of a consort that played at weddings and festivals. Le Secret des Muses is among the last published collections of French lute tablature intended for the 10-course Renaissance lute, which was ultimately supplanted by the larger 13-course Baroque model. Most of these pieces consist of traditional European dance forms, but also contains a few settings of popular lute themes and longer works suitable for concert performance are included. Written in standard notation only with occasional drop-D tuning, these pieces make excellent sight-reading and warmup material as well as historically significant concert selections.