String Quartet (Score &
Parts) - easy to
intermediate
SKU:
HL.49045974
From
Children's Corner.
Composed by Claude
Debussy. Edited by
Wolfgang Birtel. Arranged
by Wolfgang Birtel. This
edition: Saddle
stitching. Sheet music.
String Ensemble.
Classical. Softcover. 28
pages. Schott Music
#ED21590. Published by
Schott Music
(HL.49045974).
ISBN
9790001192132. UPC:
841886020023. 9x12
inches.
The famous
Golliwogg's Cakewalk is
the final piece from
Debussy's cycle
Children's Corner
which consists of 6
miniatures for piano,
written for his daughter
in the years 1906-1908.
The style corresponds to
that of ragtime, a dance
which was in vogue around
the turn of the century.
In the middle section, he
parodies several times
the beginning of the
opera Tristan and
Isolde by Richard
Wagner with whom Debussy
had a rather ambiguous
relationship. The present
arrangement now allows
musicians to play the
popular movement in a
version for string
quartet.