Description
17 composers including Mozart, Handel, Schubert and Purcell, Arr: Harris
Music Through Time is an exciting series of instrumental repertoire books designed to provide young musicians with enjoyable, interesting and stimulating material in the early stages of their playing career. The contents of each volume are arranged chronologically, and each piece is accompanied by short notes which place the music in its wider historical context so that the student can more easily relate the style of the music to its period. Book 1 covers grades 1-2.
CONTENTS: Anon.: Minuet for the mock trumpet, Thoinot Arbeau: Two pieces from "Orchesographie", Frí©dí©ric Berr: Dance, Giuseppe Concone: Minuet, Moderato cantabile, Sir Edward Elgar: Andante, George Frideric Handel: The harmonious blacksmith, Paul Harris: Dance of the elegant elephant, Scott Joplin: I am thinking of my Pickaninny days, Jean Xavier LefíÂvre: March, Gustav Mahler: Funeral march, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Menuetto, Henry Purcell: Song, Erik Satie: Taking advantage of someone else's corns to, Franz Schubert: Ecossaise, Sir Arthur Sullivan: Poor wand'ring one!, Sir William Walton: Puppet's dance.