Name: Allemande for First Position String Orchestra by Michael Bomier Orchestra Digital Sheet Music
Brand: Michael Butkus-Bomier
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Allemande for First Position String Orchestra
by Michael Bomier String Orchestra - Digital Sheet Music

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Product Details

Title Allemande for First Position String Orchestra

Artist Michael Bomier

Score Type

PDF, Included with PASS

Composer Michael Bomier

Format Digital Sheet Music

Pages 11

Arrangement Orchestra

Publisher Michael Butkus-Bomier

Product ID 958730

Genre Baroque Sacred Contemporary Instructional Standards

Performance Group String Orchestra

Product Description

The Allemande was a German dance form used in many Baroque Era suites. Its characteristic rhythm was the dotted-eighth-sixteenth figure, which is used throughout this piece. The real substance of this composition is not the dance form, however, but the strict and highly evocative use of the ascending and descending forms of the melodic minor scale. Since this was such a Baroque Era staple, I felt the piece had to use Baroque forms, techniques and structures as well. So, the key is D minor. C and Bb going down, B and C# going up. No accidentals but these were used. D minor is not the happiest of keys, and accordingly the mood here is somber. The orchestral texture is NOT rich and lush, like other pieces in the series, but is thinner and more contrapuntally transparent. There are three internal cadences before the ending sequence. Suspensions, voice leading, and dissonances are all treated in a standard Baroque fashion. Bowings by string pedagogue Lori Sandell Lacey. Running time is approx 3 mins 30 secs.at suggested tempo. The piece could certainly go faster if your group can handle it. Each part is but a single page, for easy management of music in rehearsal and performance. MBB

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