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12 Solo Quadrilles for Bass Recorder
Originally written for small orchestras or piano, our arrangements for solo Bass recorder work so well that it is hard to believe that the pieces werent written for the recorder in the first place.
This edition of stunning, not too difficult, but fun solos is the ideal companion or addition to the 25 Progressive Studies for Bass Recorder and a great album of show-stoppers for professionals and students alike.
Quadrilles were fashionable dances of the late 18th to19th Centuries, performed by four couples in a rectangular formation. They consist of four to six movements (or contredanses, courtly versions of English country dances that had been taken up at the court of Louis XIV and spread across Europe.) and became a craze during the 19th century.
Though hundreds of quadrille sets were composed in the 19th , the names of the five parts (or figures) remained the same, as did the steps and the figures themselves:
Le Pantalon , Lété , La Poule , (Trénis ), La Pastourelle , Finale
This collection includes:
· The Rats
· Learning to Dance
· Wide Awake
· Melbourne
· Polly
· Osborne
· Lancers Quadrille
· Chevalresque
· Fireman
· Les Girards
· Palermo
· Caledonian
This product was created by a member of ArrangeMe, Hal Leonard's global self-publishing community of independent composers, arrangers, and songwriters. ArrangeMe allows for the publication of unique arrangements of both popular titles and original compositions from a wide variety of voices and backgrounds.