Name: Non mi porti a Funkytown? (Disco & Pavane) by Jason V. Barabba Performance Ensemble Digital Sheet Music
Brand: Barabba Music
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Non mi porti a Funkytown? (Disco & Pavane)
by Jason V. Barabba Performance Ensemble - Digital Sheet Music

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Title Non mi porti a Funkytown? (Disco & Pavane)

Artist Jason V. Barabba

Score Type

PDF, Included with PASS

Composer Jason V. Barabba

Format Digital Sheet Music

Pages 48

Arrangement Performance Ensemble

Publisher Barabba Music

Level 3

Product ID 1480067

Genre Classical Disco Contemporary 20th Century Chamber

Instruments Cello Flute Piano Violin

Product Description

Its difficult to know what to say about this piece. It will probably always be an aberration when considered as part of my larger body of works. My challenge when writing this piece was to incorporate two different dance styles, and I immediately decided it was time to face the disco music of my childhood. Yes, I had the Bee Gees on LP when I was a kid.

and ABBAbut I left them out of this piece.

Obviously, this is meant to be fun. There are direct (if not always obvious) quotations to the following songs:
Anita Wards Ring My Bell
Night Fever by the Bee Gees
Gloria Gaynors I Will Survive (Just had to be included)
Lipps Incs Funktown
and Boogie Nights from Heatwave
The ancient dance form known as the pavane is, weirdly enough, the perfect pairing with the discoin that their rhythmic structures easily go together, allowing me to spread the disco material around throughout the piece. In fact, the references to I Will Survive are in the slower pavane section, not the disco.

The piece is basic A-B-A form (Disco-Pavane-Disco) with a fadeout endingbecause in all my research I dont remember finding a single disco piece that didnt have a fadeout ending. It just wasnt done. Please have some fun listening to this piece, because I had a great time writing it. Its unlike anything Ive ever written.

.pdf contains a complete set of score and parts. There are also versions with clarinet and oboe in place of the flute available. For more information visit www.jasonbarabba.com.

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