Sir Roger de Coverley
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UPC: 9780571572397
Model Number: 12-0571572391
Brand: Alfred Publishing
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Product Description
Frank Bridge (1879--1941) was one of the leading English composers of his time. In October 1922, he adapted his popular string quartet "Sir Roger de Coverley" for full symphony orchestra and Sir Henry Wood agreed, at the last minute, to include it in the last night of the Queen's Hall Promenade Concerts at the end of that month. This elaborate and colourful orchestral version has never been widely performed, but has now been brilliantly transcribed by Alastair Wheeler to provide a miniature dance poem for grade 5 level concert band. Bridge's lively treatment of one of England's most famous traditional dance melodies will make a fitting end to any concert, with the strains of Auld Lang Syne introduced by Bridge as a nod towards Sir Roger de Coverley's traditional function as the final dance of a Christmas Ball, as it was in Old Mr. Fezziwig's party in Dickens' A Christmas Carol.
Product Features
- Format: Conductor Score
- Instrument: Concert Band
- Category: Concert Band
- Contributors: By Frank Bridge
- Pub Date: 8/2018
- Series: Faber Edition
- Level: Grade 5
- Grade Number: (5)
- ISBN 10: 0571572391
- ISBN 13: 9780571572397