Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-George is the earliest known classical composer of African descent. His Adagio (originally in Fmin for piano, here Gmin for recorders) is a rather charming piece and ahead of its Mozartean time.
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Ensembles have to think ahead for their concerts, and composers have to think even more ahead. So I decided to write a winter solstice piece, in the middle of summer.
A nice and chill piece for four bass recorders. My supporters at Patreon are getting the sheet music. Wouldn’t you like to join them?
One of the 24 “Negro Melodies” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor.
This is arranged for SATTBBGGC.
Here are play-along versions with the Alto or Tenor omitted:
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/ufqip4vssepqy9l/AADp-HVoQrzLvV5TPAFaNTa1a?dl=0
I felt like arranging an old (way older than Pat Boone) ballad.
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This sounds a little like the Folia ground bass, and it’s little like a Chaconne, and it’s a canon. Five sections, played in canon. You can play this solo as a theme with variations, or a two-voice canon, or an ensemble piece, or…
Soundfile: https://soundcloud.com/vicdiesel/chacanonandon
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As an exercise in writing for as many voices as I could, I managed to use 15 parts for the opening movement of Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata. A single soprano, with 3 altos, 3 tenors, 3 basses, 2 great and 2 contra basses, and a single C sub-great bass.
It seems Edward MacDowell’s “To a Wild Rose” is famous, but I didn’t like it much. Instead I took his water lily from the same bundle of “Woodlands Sketches” and arranged it for 11 recorders: SAATBBBGGCC.
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I first knew this Al Jolson song in its Louis Davids translation as “J’hebt me betoverd”.
An arrangement for 10 recorders (SnSSAATTBGC) of the 60s lounge classic.
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