Name: String Quintet - Courtly Dances by Mike Lyons String Ensemble Digital Sheet Music
Brand: Lyons Music Services
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String Quintet - Courtly Dances
by Mike Lyons String Quintet - Digital Sheet Music

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Product Details

Title String Quintet - Courtly Dances

Artist Mike Lyons

Score Type

PDF, Included with PASS

Composer Mike Lyons

Format Digital Sheet Music

Pages 36

Arrangement String Ensemble

Publisher Lyons Music Services

Level 4

Product ID 863911

Genre Baroque

Instruments Cello String Bass Viola Violin

Performance Group String Quintet

Product Description

Basically it is a set of three dances loosely described as Allemande, Courante and Jygg. Orchestration is for string quintet Violins 1 & 2, Viola, Cello and Contrabass. The style of the first one is marcato, with a touch of irony! The Contrabass leads with an Alberti pattern followed by the first melodic idea stated on the Cello. This motif is eventually taken up by all the instruments. The melody then morphs into a lovely little B-section melody on the 1st Violin, with an obbligato on Violin 2, before the DS. Surprisingly simple, but 3 mins long. Movement 2 plays on the meaning of courante (running). It's in 3, as courantes were. Each instrument has an important role in keeping the music flowing - even the Contrabass and Cello. The middle section has a mournful Double Bassmelody with weaving contrapuntal lines from all the others. There's a bridge into the DS and the first section is repeated, leading eventually to the short coda. Movement 3 is the hardest movement. It's in 9/8 with lots of dynamism. It also has a few modern touches. After the short (2 bars) 12/8 section, there is a Berlioz-esque dance of the witches type of fever about the music. Then DS to fine.

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