Herbert Howells: Country Pageant & A Little Book of Dances

Herbert Howells: Country Pageant & A Little Book of Dances

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Easier Piano Pieces 21

• these two sets of pieces display all the characteristics of the music of this fine English composer - modal inflections, the influence of 16th-century English composers, quirky fast movements, and, in the piece 'There was a most beautiful lady', elegiac melodies of great beauty

Contents:

 

  • Galliard, from ‘A Little Book of Dances’
  • Gavotte, from ‘A Little Book of Dances’
  • Jig, from ‘A Little Book of Dances’
  • Kings and Queens, from ‘Country Pageant’
  • Merry Andrew’s Procession, from ‘Country Pageant’
  • Minuet, from ‘A Little Book of Dances’
  • Pavane, from ‘A Little Book of Dances’
  • Rigadoon, from ‘A Little Book of Dances’
  • The Mummers’ Dance, from ‘Country Pageant’
  • There was a most beautiful Lady, from ‘Country Pageant’