Name: Elgar: The Wand of Youth Suite No.1 Op.1a VI.Slumber Scene - wind quintet (arr. Ray Thompson) by Edward Elgar Woodwind Ensemble Digital Sheet Music
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Elgar: The Wand of Youth Suite No.1 Op.1a VI.Slumber Scene - wind quintet (arr. Ray Thompson)
by Edward Elgar Woodwind Quintet - Digital Sheet Music

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Title Elgar: The Wand of Youth Suite No.1 Op.1a VI.Slumber Scene - wind quintet (arr. Ray Thompson)

Artist Edward Elgar

Score Type

PDF, Included with PASS

Composer Edward Elgar

Arranger Ray Thompson

Format Digital Sheet Music

Pages 8

Arrangement Woodwind Ensemble

Publisher RayThompsonMusic

Level 3

Product ID 1709767

Genre 20th Century

Instruments Bassoon Clarinet Flute French Horn Oboe

Performance Group Woodwind Quintet

Product Description

The Wand of Youth Suites No. 1 and No. 2 are works for orchestra by Edward Elgar, first performed in 1907 and 1908 respectively. The titles Elgar gave them were, in full: The Wand of Youth (Music to a Child's Play) First Suite, Op. 1a (18691907) and Second Suite, (Op. 1b).

The music was drawn from material written by the composer in his youth and orchestrated forty years or so later.

This is mvt VI from the first suite "Slumber Scene" arranged for wind quintet by me.

My arrangement takes a slightly faster tempo than Elgars.

This movement is in G major, 4/4, moderato,.The original is written for muted strings with two bassoons and a single horn.The double bass line uses only the open strings: Elgar noted, "the simplicity of the bass made it possible for a child who knew nothing of music on any instrument to grind out the bass".Diana McVeagh comments that Elgar's harmonic shifts over the bass are "a tour de force, the soporific rhythm soothing, never monotonous".

Check out my other Elgar arrangements and other mvts from this suite.

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