Timeless Cornish Melodies Cooked Up For Hungry Brass Players-As I sit myself down to write this brief foreword I ask myself can there be music more stirring than these old Cornish folk melodies? Though not Cornish myself (I confess to being born a little further up the road in Bristol) I feel I have spent sufficient time in these 'ere parts to resonate with the sturdy brass band tradition that continues to permeate this incomparably beautiful rugged county. One can almost detect a French 'accent' when listening to the piano music of Debussy and likewise speaking as a lapsed brass player there is undoubtedly something of the Cornish twang about Trelawny when played on a cornet or euphonium. Then again one gets a different yet entirely convincing effect upon hearing these melodies rendered on woodwind instruments; hence with a little gamesmanship on my part I am pleased to see my collection of these fifteen delectable ditties come to fruition in the form of arrangements for treble clef brass instruments (in B flat and E flat) trombone and tuba (bass clef) horn in F flute clarinet and bassoon.While many will find themselves humming the likes of Going up Camborne Hill Lamorna or The Helston Furry Dance even before they have turned to the first page - for these are indelibly intertwined with Cornish culture - I wonder if I might draw your attention to The Cornish Squire The Pool of Pilate and Cold Blows the Wind Today Sweetheart which are quite simply sublime melodies perhaps needing that extra bit of help in bringing them to mind nowadays. In the best tradition of musical hand-me-downs Cornish folk music works equally ideally sung and played and only by doing so on a regular basis can such traditions hope to continue forward with vigour and authority. A legitimate way of achieving this is to revitalise the harmonic scheme of these ancient tunes and bring them up to date for a modern audience; after all it was such an approach that fuelled the imagination of Benjamin Britten and Ralph Vaughan Williams in decades past while skilfully paying homage to the

Sous-titre : 17 Graded Solos for Bassoon and Piano Arrangeur : Philip Sparke Édition musicale : Anglo Music Press Instrumentation : Basson et Piano Langue : E(UK)DFN Degré de difficulté : Facile-Élémentaire Type de produit : Recueil CD Année d'édition : 2013 Dimension : 9 X 12 INCH Nombre de pages : 32 ISMN : 9790570293629 N° Titre 1 Les Grands Douleurs (Basse Danse No. 6 from Danserye) Compositeur: Susato, Tielman 2 Sonata (from Harlequin Restored, or the Country Revels) Compositeur: Charke, Richard 3 Ah, Leave Me Not to Pine (from The Pirates of Penzance) Compositeur: Sullivan, Sir Arthur Seymour 4 Mr. Scoolding` Minuet (from The Compleat tutor to the Hautboy) Compositeur: Anonymous 5 Aria (from Kleine Kammermusik) Compositeur: Telemann, Georg Philipp 6 O Waly, Waly (The Water is Wide) - Scottish traditional 7 Bourrée (from Water Music) Compositeur: Händel, Georg Friedrich (Handel, George Frideric) 8 Gratitude (from Lyric Pieces Op. 62) Compositeur: Grieg, Edvard 9 Andantino (from Vox Organi) Compositeur: Batchelder, Frederick William 10 When I am Laid in Earth (from Dido and Aeneas) Compositeur: Purcell, Henry 11 Allegro (Sonata I from 12 Sonatas) Compositeur: Babell, William 12 Bist Du Bei Mir (from Diomedes) Compositeur: Stölzel, Gottfried Heinrich 13 Poco Allegretto (from Symphony No. 3) Compositeur: Brahms, Johannes 14 Lord Willobies Welcome Home (from My Ladye Nevells Booke of Virginal Music) Compositeur: Byrd, William 15 Jesu, Joy of Man`s Desiring (from Cantata No. 147) Compositeur: Bach, Johann Sebastian 16 Adagio (KV Anh. 94 (580a) Compositeur: Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus 17 Allegro (Finale from Flute Sonata in C) Compositeur: Vivaldi, Antonio