Concert Band Wind Band -
Intermediate
SKU:
AP.12-0571570488
Composed by Kenneth
Hesketh. 5 or More;
Performance Music
Ensemble; Solo Small
Ensembles; Wind Band.
Faber Edition: Faber Wind
Band Series. Form: Dance.
20th Century; Masterwork.
Score and Part(s). Faber
Music #12-0571570488.
Published by Faber Music
(AP.12-0571570488).
ISBN 9780571570485.
English.
This
second set of Danceries
continues the format
established in Danceries
(Set I), namely in using
material taken from
Playford's Dancing
Master, a collection of
folk and popular tunes
published in the
seventeenth century, to
form the basis of an
extended dance suite. In
this set, the melodies
are more abstract and
project only a distant
echo of their original
forms, but as before,
each movement is
self-contained, colorful
and direct, with its own
distinct mood. The outer
movements---Jennie's
Bawbee and Peascod's
Galliarda----share a use
of driving percussion
writing with a military
air. Tom Tinker's Toye
and Heart's Ease
(movements two and three)
are both settings of
original melodies. All
movements are more
extended than in the
first set, with a freer
use and approach to the
material; melodies now
occur in various keys and
are supported by a
greater variety of
harmonic coloring. The
result is a richer, even
more exhilarating set of
dances. Danceries has
come of age! Arranged for
wind band.