Partitions de Curwen

3rd Step-A practical course of the element of music by Mrs J Spencer Curwen. With Illustrative duets for teacher and pupil by Felix Swinstead.

1st Step-A practical course of the element of music by Mrs J Spencer Curwen. With Illustrative duets for teacher and pupil by Felix Swinstead.

6th Step-A practical course of the element of music by Mrs J Spencer Curwen. With Illustrative duets for teacher and pupil by John Kinross.

Old Chinese Folk-Song. For violin or cello and piano. Op. 4 No. 1. From the Yang-Tse-Kiang, dedicated to Achille Rivarde.

Folk Songs Of Many Lands is a collection of over 70 different traditional lays melodies dance and tunes from across Europe and beyond. They were gathered and published in 1911 by John Spencer Curwen(1847-1916) who took over his father’s publishing company and encouraged musical competitions among amateur musicians. The songs have all been arranged for two Voices and Piano.Percy Eastman Fletcher (1879-1932)was a British composer and musical director whose varied output encompassed theatre cantatas orchestral music brass band competition pieces settings of folk songs and much more. Unfortunately many of his works are nowlargely forgotten but they are probably one of the most under-appreciated gems of English light music.

For an apparent folksong On Ilkley Moor baht ‘at has a very reliable provenance. The tune Cranbrook was devised in 1805 by Thomas Clark a shoemaker of Canterbury and prolific composer of hymns for in particular Nonconformist churches of southeastern England. It was sung to When Shepherds Watched Their Flocks By Night.Some decades later an East Riding church choir on an outing is said to have created the new words following an incidenton their walk. In the many years that the song has been sung as On Ilkley Moor ever more rambunctious interpolations have been added e.g. ‘yum yum yum’ or ‘up the ducks!’ following ‘Then we will go and eat up ducks’.In thisversion by composer and Curwen & Sons Chairman Maurice Jacobson a descant has been added at verses 3 6 and 9 and a lively interplay arranged between high and low Voices in the verse and Chorus.

Adam Geibel's Row Boatman Row scored for Men's Voices (TTBB) and Piano accompaniment.

Now Is The Month Of Maying is one of the most famous of the English balletts a light part song similar to a madrigal frequently with a fa-la-la chorus common among Elizabethan and Italian Renaissancecomposers. The fun piece was written by the most famous composer of secular music in Elizabethan England one of the foremost members of the English Madrigal School Thomas Morley and published in 1595. The song delightsin bawdy double-entendre it is apparently about spring dancing but this is a metaphor for sex. Its imagery and puns are characteristic of the Renaissance. Now Is The Month Of Maying is arranged here for SATBChoir.

String Quartet In G Minor 1909 revised 1921. Study Score. Set of parts available for sale.