Description

Well-crafted arrangements of music from the 16th century to the present day for bassoon and piano. Pieces are presented in chronological order and show the year in which they were written to give a sense of the different styles of music through time.

BOOK 1 CONTENTS:

• Brian Boru’s March [Trad.]

• Pavana hispanica [Sweelinck]

• Princess Royal [O’Carolan]

• March, H. 1.1 [C. P. E. Bach]

• The Keel Row [Trad.]

• The Birdcatcher’s Song from The Magic Flute [Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart]

• The Little Drummer Boy [Trad.]

• Cattle-Call from 25 Norwegian Folksongs and Dances, Op. 17 [Edvard Grieg]

• March of the Egyptians from Aida [Verdi]

• A Policeman’s Lot from The Pirates of Penzance [Sullivan]

• Gopak [Musorgsky]

• Peacherine Rag [Joplin]

• Ballroom Waltz from The Merry Widow [Lehar]

• Buonaparty [Vaughan Williams]

• Cake-Walk from Easy Dances II [Matyas Seiber]

• Toccatina from 30 Pieces for Children, Op. 27 [Dmitri Kabalevsky]

• When I got out of bed from Kirkwall Shopping Songs [Peter Maxwell Davies]

• East Meets West [Ian Denley]

• Damkol damkol from Easy Piano Pieces on Persian Folksongs [Beizai]

• Stepping Out [Adrian Davis]

• The Trout Op. 32, D. 550 [Franz Schubert]

• Menuet from TWV 34: 51-100 [Georg Philipp Telemann]

• Minuet from 12 German Dances, Hob. IX/10 [Joseph Haydn]