Howells, Herbert: Country Pageant & A Little Book of Dances

£6.50

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.

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Description

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

Additional information

Weight 118 g
Publisher

ABRSM Publishing

Primary composer/editor/arranger

Herbert, Howells

Published date

29/06/1989

Pages

28

Series

Easier Piano Pieces (ABRSM)

Subtitle

Easier Piano Pieces 21