Sir Roger De Coverley Cb5 Score
Full Score
Sheet Music

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- Grade 5

SKU: HU.F0571572391

Full Score. Composed by Frank Bridge. Full Score, Ensemble, Concert Band. Faber Wind Band Series. Sir Roger de Coverley. Score. 36 pages. Faber Music #F0571572391. Published by Faber Music (HU.F0571572391).

16.5 x 11.7 x 0.2 inches.

Frank Bridge (1879 - 1941) was one of the leading English composers of his time. In October 1922 he adapted his popular string quartet Sir Roger de Coverley for full symphony orchestra and Sir Henry Wood agreed, at the last minute, to include it in the last night of the Queen's Hall Promenade Concerts at the end of that month. This elaborate and colourful orchestral version has never been widely performed, but has now been brilliantly transcribed by Alastair Wheeler to provide a miniature dance poem for grade 5 level concert band. Bridge's lively treatment of one of England's most famous traditional dance melodies will make a fitting end to any concert, with the strains of Auld Lang Syne introduced by Bridge as a nod towards Sir Roger de Coverley's traditional function as the final dance of a Christmas Ball, as it was in Old Mr. Fezziwig's party in Dickens' A Christmas Carol.