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
Sheet music is available to my supporters on https://www.patreon.com/FluteCore
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.
Sheet music has been sent to my Patreon supporters as a freebie.
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.
Music available only to my Patreon supporters.
I’ve done my own arrangement of a pretty, sad song by the 17th century composer Barbara Strozzi. The arrangement is slightly anachronistic, being full-on JS Bach baroque. Sort of.
Listen, enjoy, and why don’t you join my supporters on patreon, who are downloading the music as we speak and playing it with their friends?
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