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GERMAN, Edward – “WOODLAND  DANCE”, MASQUE  No.1  from  the music to “As You Like It” – for CELLO and PIANO

PDF 1: “WOODLAND  DANCE”, MASQUE  No.1  from  the music to “As You Like It” – E. GERMAN – CELLO

PDF 2: “WOODLAND  DANCE”, MASQUE  No.1  from  the music to “As You Like It” – E. GERMAN – PIANO

EXAMPLE:

Sir Edward German (17th February 1862 – 11th November 1936) was an English musician and composer of Welsh descent, best remembered for his extensive output of incidental music for the stage and as a successor to Arthur Sullivan in the field of English comic opera. Some of his light operas, especially Merrie England, are still performed.

The orchestral MASQUE from “As You Like It” (Act 2) was given a Proms premiere on 7th September 1897 at the Queens Hall, London. It proved popular, and was repeated there in Proms concerts in September 1905, and in September 1906. The version for violin and piano was made by the composer. Johnstone uses this base for the cello; usually but not always, lowering the writing down an octave, and regrouping a few chords.

Difficulty; in the cello version this may be classed: MEDIUM-to-DIFFICULT

Explaining the MASQUE:
The masque was a form of festive courtly entertainment that flourished in 16th- and early 17th-century Europe, though it was developed earlier in Italy, in forms including the intermedio (a public version of the masque was the pageant). A masque involved music and dancing, singing and acting, within an elaborate stage design.

While the masque was no longer as popular as it was at its height in the 17th Century, there are many later examples of the masque. With the renaissance of English musical composition during the late 19th and early 20th century (the so-called English Musical Renaissance), English composers turned to the masque as a way of connecting to a genuinely English musical-dramatic form in their attempts to build a historically-informed national musical style for England. Examples include those by Arthur Sullivan, George Macfarren, and even Edward Elgar. In the 20th century, Ralph Vaughan Williams wrote several masques, including his masterpiece in the genre, “Job, a masque for dancing”. Constant Lambert also wrote a piece he called a masque, Summer’s Last Will and Testament, for orchestra, chorus and baritone.

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