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  WILLIAM BYRD
  Praeludium and Fantasia (from the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book)
  arranged for SAATB                                                                               
  Those of you who know and love Byrd’s original consort music (for instance the five-part setting  
  of  ‘Browning’) will relish the variety of gravely expressive counterpoint and boisterous syncopated 
  rhythms to be found in this Fantasia. The coda is a freely elaborated cadence, echoing the 
  Praeludium and bringing the whole piece to a very satisfying conclusion. Some of Byrd’s keyboard 
  music was arranged by him from his own consort music and much of it has been arranged by 
  others since, but this is a masterpiece that, as far as I know, exists in no other arrangement than the 
  present one.
  Duration about 7’30”                                                                             GP01  Score and parts £ 12.50
  
  MAURICE HODGES
  Irish tunes (Set 2)
  SATB                                                                                                          
  This set of pieces (along with Set 1 for woodwind quartet) was published in 1992 by
  WOODWINDplus. They were written for the Cambridge branch of the Society of Recorder Players
  but, although there are short passages with extra parts for group playing, the music is self-sufficient 
  with four players and versions for string quartet and saxophone quartet are in the pipeline! The
  tunes are: 1 A morning in summer (jig), 2 By the church at Creggan, 3 Hymn to the heart of Jesus, 
  4 The king of Laois (6/8 march).
  Durations 2’20”, 1’30”, 1’40”, 2’05” (total about 8’30”)                        GP02  Score and parts £ 10.80
  
  WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART
  Andante (for a barrel in a little organ) K.616 
  arranged for AATB                                                                                  
  A late example of ‘flute-clock’ music - there are many pieces written by Haydn, Mozart and others
  for mechanical organs and subsequently arranged by all sorts of people for all sorts of ensembles, 
  often recorders. I believe this work is already available for three recorders but I think this is the only 
  published quartet version (there is a lot of four-part harmony in the original and you might as well 
  share the work out a bit more). This may be the only late piece of Mozart for which recorders 
  provide an appropriate mode of expression!
  Duration about 4’30” (5’50” if you do a D.C. rather than a D.S.!)         GP03  Score and parts £ 9.60
 
  MAURICE HODGES
  The Little Black Rose (fantasia on the Irish folk tune)
  SATB                                                                                                         
  Conceived as a ‘musical history’ of the tune, using four progressively more elaborate versions, the
  piece begins with a wild soprano cadenza. The simple Dorian version introduced underneath 
  by the tenor gradually grows to a climactic much-ornamented C major version in two-part free 
  canon. A bass cadenza leads to the piece’s disappearance in a wisp of Irish mist! 
  Duration about 5’30”                                                                             GP04  Score and parts £ 10.00
  
  JAN PIETERSZOON SWEELINCK
  Fantasia (from the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book)
  arranged for ATTB                                                                                                                     Project
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