Orchestra - Grade 3

SKU: AP.47479S

Composed by Shirl Jae Atwell. Performance Music Ensemble; Single Titles; String Orchestra. Highland/Etling String Orchestra. Score. 8 pages. Duration 2:05. Highland/Etling #00-47479S. Published by Highland/Etling (AP.47479S).

UPC: 038081544878. English.

This lighthearted, carefree work is easy to remember upon hearing. It has a snappy rhythm that makes you want to dance to its lively tune.
Minstrels were musicians who traveled throughout the countryside providing entertainment to any and all. Their repertoire included songs, dances, jokes, and storytelling. One could find them all over Europe and America from the Middle Ages up until the 20th century. As traveling musicians, they relied on catch tunes that could easily be learned and communicated to their audiences. They were in the business of uplifting people's spirits through fun and laughter.

Guitar - advanced

SKU: HL.49010935

Composed by Claude Debussy. Edited by Ansgar Krause. Arranged by Ansgar Krause. This edition: Saddle stitching. Sheet music. Gitarren-Archiv (Guitar Archive). Classical. Playing score. 15 pages. Duration 9' 20''. Schott Music #GA522. Published by Schott Music (HL.49010935).

ISBN 9790001097697. UPC: 073999709872. 9.0x12.0x0.056 inches.

High Voice and Orchestra

SKU: HL.14020965

Composed by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. Music Sales America. 20th Century. Score. Composed 1999. 92 pages. Chester Music #CH60950. Published by Chester Music (HL.14020965).

ISBN 9780711936959.

The story centres on the English princess Caroline Mathilde (1751-1775), sister of George III, who at the age of 15 was sent to Denmark to marry the 17-year-old eccentric and schizophrenic Danish King, Christian VII. The ballet portrays her unhappy marriage, the King's growing madness and her fatal love-affair with Struensee, the King's influential physician, which leads to their arrest, his execution and her exile, at the age of 20, separated from her two young children. This suite begins with the act's opening number: a boisterous, stamping dance to which the people rudely mock Queen Caroline Mathilde and her lover Struensee. After this comes a dark Adagio, The Conspiracy, in which the theme passes like persuasion from mouth to mouth, its variations suggesting the different attitudes of the conspirators, firmly controlled by the brass-driven gestures of the Queen Dowager. The conspiracy then works itself out at a court masked ball, from which the suite includes two dances: a gavotte, and a slow, lubricious passacaglia that is a pas de deux for Caroline Mathilde and Struensee. The Arrest comes with a gathering rush of music that envelops the King, the Queen and Struensee, leading to a vociferous climax in which they are held apart. In The Execution, slow white music for wordless female voices, harp and low strings is interrupted by pathetic, alienated outbursts from the King. The suite ends, as does the ballet, with a quiet adagio lament for clarinets and alto flute as the Queen goes into exile. Score. Duration c. 33mins.