Details
- Instrument:
- Flute
- Ensembles:
- Flute Quartet
- Publishers:
- Wonderful Winds
- Series:
- Flutets Series
- ISBN:
- 9790570741267
- Format:
- Score Set of Parts Score and Parts
- Item types:
- Physical
- Musical forms:
- Suite
- Usages:
- School and Community
- Shipping Weight:
- 0.35 pounds
Flute Quartet (3 Fls, Afl) - Grade 4 to 6
SKU: WN.F008
Composed by G. Farnaby. Arranged by Anna Cooper. Flutets series. Score and parts. Wonderful Winds #F008. Published by Wonderful Winds (WN.F008).ISBN 9790570741267.
These charming pieces are 3 of the 50 or so that Giles Farnaby contributed to the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book. Although they are arranged in modern keys, they retain their original modal feel. A Toye is made up of two themes in the Aeolian mode, each of which is followed by a variation. The melody bounces around between the flutes throughout. His Rest is a Galliard in Dorian mode and in a fugal style. His Humour plays on the contrast between the spritely staccato sections and the dolce, slow-moving rising and falling minims and semibreves, though the liveliness wins out in the end. Feel free to add embellishments as keyboard players of the late 16th century would have done.
1. A Toye
2. His Rest
3. His Humour