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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 projects.htmlshapeimage_2_link_0

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