Bach-Schumann-Camwell: Prelude from Partita BWV 1006 arr. for 2 Alto Saxophones and Piano

Bach-Schumann-Camwell: Prelude from Partita BWV 1006 arr. for 2 Alto Saxophones and PianoCode: JP4080 ISMN: 979 0 3019 0364 3 The Prelude from Bach's Partita BWV 1006 originally was scored as the first movement of his Wir danken dir, Gott, wir danken dir (We thank you, God, we thank you). This work was composed in Leipzig in 1731, for the inauguration of Ratscwechsel's new town council. Bach later adapted this music for unaccompanied violin, and in the next century, Robert Schumann created a piano accompaniment. In 1853, Schumann had

Nor did Canfield worry too much about the places in the piece that Brahms would not have written

Although the emphasis is on learning to sustain the air column through a legato style of playing

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It was common practice during Bach's time that works were played with alternate instrumentation

Franklin Mack depicts a yearning for a noble life using an analogy to a rugged mountain

There are three movements: fast-slow-fast

"Le Retour a la Montagne" is for Voice

This arrangement for clarinet choir is by James Mack

A perhaps more interesting and faster method of determining the order could be accomplished by taking the lowest six cards of any suit out of a deck

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Code: JP2136

Pulse and Drone was the winner of the 1999 Voices of Change Young Composers Award