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GRIEG – Children’s Songs Op.61 – THREE CELLOS (easy)

Other Identification:
The seven Children’s Songs were written in 1898 (voice and piano), with their arrangement for high voices coming in 1901. All but one of their texts are by well-known Norwegian poets. Grieg did not consider that this set formed a formal cycle and so the songs are interspersed, which makes this a capella programme easier to listen to.

Also you can choose just a few of these pieces, or one only, they are considered individual concert pieces.

Movements or sections: The Songs are titled:
1 – The Ocean
2 – The Christmas Tree
3 – Farmyard song
4 – Fisherman’s song
5 – Good-Night Song for Dobbin
6 – The Norwegian Mountains
7 – Fatherland Hymn

Instrumentation: TRIO OF THREE CELLOS
Arranged by David Johnstone

1 PDF, with every song placed as a ‘playing score’

Approximate difficulty: EASY
The cello trio version is comfortable to play for elementary cellists; the writing is close in register and rhythmically straight-forward with no imitation or counterpoints present. The individual parts have not been written, it should be easy enough playing from the general ‘Playing Sore’. Over 90% of the writing is in first position, with just occasional excursions into 2nd or 3rd position by the first cello part. Even so, it is felt that for larger forces a conductor will be useful.

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