Curwen

5th Step-A practical course of the element of music by Mrs J Spencer Curwen. With Illustrative duets for teacher and pupil by John Kinross.

Unbarred Sentences Steps I-Vi-A practical course of the elements of music Mrs Curwen. With illustrative duets for teacher and pupil by John Kinross.

4th Step-A practical course of the element of music by Mrs J Spencer Curwen. With Illustrative duets for teacher and pupil by Felix Swinstead.

Unbarred Sentences Steps I-Vi-A practical course of the elements of music Mrs Curwen. With illustrative duets for teacher and pupil by John Kinross.

1st Step-A practical course of the element of music by Mrs J Spencer Curwen. With Illustrative duets for teacher and pupil by Felix Swinstead.

Folk Songs Of Many Lands is a collection of over 70 different traditional lays melodies dance and tunes from across Europe and beyond. They were gathered and published in 1911 by John Spencer Curwen(1847-1916) who took over his father’s publishing company and encouraged musical competitions among amateur musicians. The songs have all been arranged for two Voices and Piano.Percy Eastman Fletcher (1879-1932)was a British composer and musical director whose varied output encompassed theatre cantatas orchestral music brass band competition pieces settings of folk songs and much more. Unfortunately many of his works are nowlargely forgotten but they are probably one of the most under-appreciated gems of English light music.

For an apparent folksong On Ilkley Moor baht ‘at has a very reliable provenance. The tune Cranbrook was devised in 1805 by Thomas Clark a shoemaker of Canterbury and prolific composer of hymns for in particular Nonconformist churches of southeastern England. It was sung to When Shepherds Watched Their Flocks By Night.Some decades later an East Riding church choir on an outing is said to have created the new words following an incidenton their walk. In the many years that the song has been sung as On Ilkley Moor ever more rambunctious interpolations have been added e.g. ‘yum yum yum’ or ‘up the ducks!’ following ‘Then we will go and eat up ducks’.In thisversion by composer and Curwen & Sons Chairman Maurice Jacobson a descant has been added at verses 3 6 and 9 and a lively interplay arranged between high and low Voices in the verse and Chorus.

Par THIMAN ERIC H.. Thiman wrote: 'The pieces in these volumes are intended for student who, having already acquired an adequate keyboard technique for the piano, need material to give practice in phrasing, registration and expression at the organ. With this in mind the pedal parts have been kept very simple.' / Date parution : 2022-04-01/ Recueil / Orgue